iPhone on the road

[David Herren]

On Jul 1, 2007, at 8:33 AM, Charles Dyer wrote:

>
> Gez, man, do the cell phone companies _hate_ Vermont or what? I can  
> get one or two bar reception in the middle of the God-damn  
> Everglades! The official T-Mobile (and the official Cingular) map  
> shows only thin lines of coverage centered on roads such as I-75  
> (Alligator Alley) and US 41 (Tamaimi Trail) but you can get a  
> signal at places where the official map says there's no coverage at  
> all, in areas where the only way in is by airboat or swamp buggy. I  
> can get a signal where the only local inhabitants are fish,  
> 'gators, panthers, raccoons, and mosquitos (especially mosquitos)  
> but you can't get a signal at work?! Someone needs to have a little  
> chat with the local cell phone people... Maybe we could loan you a  
> few 'gators to give 'em an incentive.

Florida's flat so line of site is far longer than here in the  
mountains. There's also some strange legal issue here that companies  
providing service in Vermont have to be careful about their signal  
footprint not extending too far into upstate New York, and since I  
live less than a mile from Lake Champlain (the west coast of Vermont  
separating VT from NY), and Rte 22A runs north/south about two miles  
from the lake, no one will put up a tower (or install in a church  
steeple or grain silo) if that would extend the footprint across the  
lake.

Other than that, it is great to be back in Vermont from Spain...


/david

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