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  awlhlm1 year, 6 months ago

  If you had bought a cellphone in the late 80s, analog AMPS of course, when you signed a service contract, you'd likely have got a subsidy and a phone that you could take to your service provider's competitor. The carriers recognized this and took it away by breaking service options into a patchwork quilt of digital options. Now, if you buy a phone, chances are good that even though you own it, even if there is a competitor that could service it, they will not. Unlike the situation in Europe, and in the US before the coming of digital cellular, the FCC has let the carriers take choice away from US consumers of cellular service and wrecked competition. Instead, there are independent monopolistic fiefdoms of incompatible service. Consumers have been totally duped.

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  Flashygrrl1 year, 6 months ago

  Wow...I see crime rates rising a LOT due to this. They should give it one more year. When the reports about stolen cars and rapes and murders due to broken in home come out, well, it will be too late then, won't it? What will they do then, say "we're sorry?"

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  mjesales1 year, 5 months ago

  The thing is that the FCC said about 5 or 7 years ago that they were going to phase this out... and some of the networks just never did anything about it.

  There is really only one really good use for this service - and that is in some really rural mountainous areas (like the Adirondak mountains in NY).

  Other than that - Onstar and some ADT type systems use the old AMPS network - and apparently they have not done much about updating the equipment over the years... when they had the warning...

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