Had to be a GSM phone for that to have worked. Only AT&T and T-Mobile are GSM over here. Europe does have good service but it's not uniform. All of our carriers are nationwide. There are lots of regional carriers so your always roaming. My phone switched carriers about 10 times on the Autobahn the last time I was in Germany.
The running out of bandwidth was a flat out lie by the tel-co's. The potential of the internet backbone hasn't even been SNIFFED at yet. Bandwidth to our homes is limited because they wasted all if that gubment money in the 90's. I was just able to get DSL a few years ago. I want fiber to my house! Gerald Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:16:19 To: <scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Pigeon beats broadband in data transfer race I was just talking to a teacher about his cellphone use in Europe. He bought a $50 cellphone from one of the companies there when he got off the plane, popped in his chip from his American phone and it worked all over Europe and Greece. The phone systems that we currently have is a joke!!! The corporations has been lying to us and we all have gotten used to mediocrity and underachievers. They lie to us and tell us that we need something like the Iphone or telephones with 41 menu settings in order for it to work. What is really happening is that the system that they setup here doesn't not work. The business model that they are using is outdated and will soon need to be replaced. As a matter of fact, the entire infrastructure of the United States is old and outdated. They just replaced the electrical transformer, and telephone junction box on my block. Both died from old age. Soon some parts of Africa will have better cellphone service than we have here. Why? Because they don't have to deal with the same redtape, and in some cases they don't have landlines to deal with so cell works better for them. Another thing that I haven't heard about lately was the story that was floating around that the internet will reach maximum capacity in 2012. It was a hot story a few months back, and now no mention of it at all. Things that make you say Hmmm....? On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote: > > > Yeah, this is the illogical extreme of bad infrastructure, skillsets, will, > and maybe even money. > We're better here in America, but our broadband infrastructure sucks > compared to other highly technical countires. > I listened to the CEO of Sprint on Charlie Rose last night explain why > making people get two year phone contracts actually helps the consumer, by > making sure the companies have the funds to give us better products and > services. Then we have the thing with the big companies trying to downgrade > the defnition of broadband. and of coruse there's the fact that what we have > already is pretty lame, from the primitive functionality of our cellphones > (in Asian countries they can buy groceries, subway tokens and movie tickets > with their phones, which have way more features and memory than ours) to our > lack of free citywide wifi networks. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 4:33:19 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Pigeon beats broadband in data transfer race > > > > They have some issues there. They seem to be more bogged down in > bureaucracy than we are. > > Check out this article: > http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2008/feb/20/averageukbroadbandspeedis > > I blame the ISPs, cable companies, and conservative IT admins. The standard > operating procedure for IT people is the minimum amount needed which doesn't > allow for growth. (Reminds me of the freeways in northern california. Why > build houses next to the freeway? It doesn't allow for growth!) > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Keith Johnson > <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote: > >> >> >> This is funny! >> >> >> http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/351478/pigeon-beats-broadband-in-data-transfer-race >> >> Pigeon beats broadband in data transfer race [image: >> Cable]<http://www.pcpro.co.uk/gallery/news/351478/pigeon-beats-broadband-in-data-transfer-race> >> >> Gallery<http://www.pcpro.co.uk/gallery/news/351478/pigeon-beats-broadband-in-data-transfer-race> >> >> Posted on 10 Sep 2009 at 10:59 >> >> A company has become so disgruntled with its slow >> broadband<http://www.pcpro.co.uk/#>connection, that's it begun transferring >> large files via homing pigeon. >> >> In a very tortoise and hare story, a financial services company based in >> Durban, South Africa pitted a homing pigeon carrying 4GB of data on a USB >> stick against its broadband connection to find out which would be faster >> transferring the data between its two offices 80km apart. >> >> >> The homing pigeon, named Winston, arrived with the USB stick in two hours >> and seven minutes, just as the download hit 4% complete. The company >> believes Winston can be trained to deliver the data in 45 minutes, a >> significant boost over its ropey broadband connection. >> >> >> "For years we've struggled with the internet as a method of communication. >> It's fine for e-mails and correspondence, but we need to transfer a lot of >> data from one office to another and find it often lets us down," the >> company's chief executive Kevin Rolfe tells the >> Metro<http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?The_pigeon_thats_quicker_than_broadband&in_article_id=734273&in_page_id=34>. >> "If we get bad weather and the service goes down it can up to two days to >> get through." >> >> >> Winston is vulnerable to the weather and predators such as hawks. >> Obviously he will have to take his chances >> >> However, he admits the plan is not without its difficulties: "There are >> other problems, of course. Winston is vulnerable to the weather and >> predators such as hawks. Obviously he will have to take his chances but >> we're confident this system can work for us,' says Rolfe. >> >> Pigeons to bridge Britain's broadband divide anybody? >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Bringing diversity to perversity for 9 years! > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ > > > > > -- Bringing diversity to perversity for 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
