On 2007-05-20 at 19:20 -0400, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > If a non-existent dog licks its butt, does that mean I can get cell > phone coverage in a suburban area four miles from the downtown of a > major US metropolis? Hell no.
What's scary is that cell coverage is apparently better than pager coverage. All this "GSM SMS is unreliable" talk is just so much crap from either people with vested interests or people too ignorant to realise just how brown and smelly are the parrotted words spewing forth from their mouths. I regularly have pager delays worse than all but the GSM delays you get after an "oh shit, this will be in the news headlines for weeks" incident. We have people using crackberries who have more reliable paging service than the people wearing pagers. And this is Silicon Valley, not exactly a technical backwoods. Yes, the pager notifications do eventually get through. I've not been here that long and my record is only three or four hours for a delay.
