On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 22:23 -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > Thats a different story entirely. Back in the day you had an A carrier > and a B carrier, used to be Cellular One and GTE, now At&t and Verizon. > The A carrier would not let the B carrier use their cell towers and vice > versa. For that fact long ago when I sold cell phones, I had customers > in the Bodega are of Northern California who had to have phones with > both companies.
Just for reference, so its not received as hogwash. Though I am not sure this still applies given the amount of cellular carriers. Unless they resell to each other or something. I think it might be legacy. Still depending on the current FCC rulings, which flip flop, they may or may not be required to share infrastructure, towers, cables, etc. Same applies to wired companies, not just wireless. "B Carrier - Most areas of the US have two cellular carriers, each of which operates on a different frequency band. One is designated the "A" carrier and the other is designated the "B" carrier. In some markets there may be only one carrier which may be "A" or "B"." http://www.mobiledia.com/glossary/32.html -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
