On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 01:59:46PM -0500, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
Thus spake "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
Face it, 7D is dead; and even if overlays had not arrived, cell phones would have killed it. Once you learn to think 10D, it's trivial.
Oh, you ignorant rednecks.* Even my cell phone has 7D dialing and it'll be a century before overlays arrive where I live.
Great. Store 7D numbers in your phone's directory and drive a few hours in any direction; see if they still work. _That_ is why mobile phones are killing off 7D, not because of dialing patterns or overlays.
humm.... there are 7d #'s in my cell and some 3d #'s also. and some 14d and lots of 10d numbers. regardless, when i drive a few hours -WEST- (that would be 140-200 mile off the LA coast...), none of them work... unless i carry a micro/pico cell and sat uplink w/ me... (yes the car needs a hull and a powerplant from a Cigarette). GSM is such a PITA. And only a few locations I am aware of (Parts of the Gulf of Mexico) have any cell coverage more than a mile or two offshore w/o adjunct support (see above) --bill
Stephen Sprunk "Those people who think they know everything CCIE #3723 are a great annoyance to those of us who do." K5SSS --Isaac Asimov