I guess I HAVE TO get a cellphone new!
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Doug,
There are many private companies that have pay phones out there. It will just be more expensive. I think last time I had to use a private pay phone, it was $1 per local call.
Groovielou
There are many private companies that have pay phones out there. It will just be more expensive. I think last time I had to use a private pay phone, it was $1 per local call.
Groovielou
I'm waiting for Cam to chime in, saying that pay phones are old school...get with the program and just use your cell phone!
Payphones have gone the way of public drinking fountains. Expense and maintenance versus necessity. Nowadays, anyone with a few bucks can get pay-as-you-go cellphones that have few to no restrictions.
Bill's right... the local drug trade caused many payphone operators to block incoming calls to payphones. That didn't help.
I dunno how it is with AT&T.. but Verizon and others farm out their payphone routes to indy contractors. If the phones aren't making money, the contractor is stuck. Little wonder that they're being pulled.
Bill's right... the local drug trade caused many payphone operators to block incoming calls to payphones. That didn't help.
I dunno how it is with AT&T.. but Verizon and others farm out their payphone routes to indy contractors. If the phones aren't making money, the contractor is stuck. Little wonder that they're being pulled.
the "old world" will ALWAYS slip into history. There will come a time when cell phones will become obsolete and there will be somebody still trying to hang on to the old reliable cell phone.
i would much rather take my chances with my "brain burning" cell phone than pick up a pay phone receiver that probably gets cleaned once ever...NEVER. Apparently, so would a lot of other people. The odds of picking up a virus or bacteria that someone left on there is MUCH greater than getting brain cancer from the radio signal on a cell phone(which is still a theory....and since the %'s of brain cancer haven't even gone up the slightest since the cell phone became popular.....i'm guessing no proof will be coming any time soon.)
the only thing thats consistent is change.
But remember according to the tobacco companies, cigarette smoking doesn't cause cancer. So if the phone companies say cellphones don't cause brain damage.......
things that make you go hmmm.......
things that make you go hmmm.......
Yes but there is not proof of that. If there was then there would be case studies documented all over the world saying that it happens. Better question is if it causes cancer why do doctors have them? Anyway...... Pay phones are old news. Mainly due to the disgusting things you find on them or around them. The last time I picked up a pay phone to call someone I had to cover my mouth and wipe the ear piece of due to the person before me.
there's no doubt that the phone companies are going to say that for obvious reasons.....i don't work for the phone companies and I'M saying that because no one has come up with any proof and the American Medical Association has not seen the slightest increase in brain cancer.
With some things, a little deductive logic goes a long way to dismiss some myths.
kind of like the myth about the bermuda triangle making boats and planes disappear. More boats and planes have gone missing in that area than in most other areas in the world.....which makes you go hmmmmmmm....until you figure out that that area has some of the heaviest traffic areas for boats and planes....so the %'s are right on track with everywhere else.
I only talk to myself :sqerr:
Although, sometimes I call downstairs, to see if the dog will bring me up a beer...
Although, sometimes I call downstairs, to see if the dog will bring me up a beer...
If memory serves, the cell phone/brain cancer scare is a holdover from the days when mobile phones were new. Then, mobile phones were the size of a brick and transmitted at higher power levels because there weren't cell towers located every half mile or so.
Today's cellphones operate at significantly lower transmitting levels than their predecessors.
Today's cellphones operate at significantly lower transmitting levels than their predecessors.
Yes, but...
The frequency ranges are higher, allowing them to pinpoint more.
A wave at say 1900 Mhz, is a much more concentrated wave, than say 840 Mhz.
Theoretically speaking, the danger increases, as the wavelength shrinks. A larger wavelength (lower frequency), spreads much farther out, and therefore doesn't target a small section of tissue.
Just my thoughts -- YMMV depending on the amount of tissue left inside yer head
The frequency ranges are higher, allowing them to pinpoint more.
A wave at say 1900 Mhz, is a much more concentrated wave, than say 840 Mhz.
Theoretically speaking, the danger increases, as the wavelength shrinks. A larger wavelength (lower frequency), spreads much farther out, and therefore doesn't target a small section of tissue.
Just my thoughts -- YMMV depending on the amount of tissue left inside yer head
Yes, but...
The frequency ranges are higher, allowing them to pinpoint more.
A wave at say 1900 Mhz, is a much more concentrated wave, than say 840 Mhz.
Theoretically speaking, the danger increases, as the wavelength shrinks. A larger wavelength (lower frequency), spreads much farther out, and therefore doesn't target a small section of tissue.
Just my thoughts -- YMMV depending on the amount of tissue left inside yer head
From my understanding....the frequency ranges have never changed. Additional ones, in fact, were lower. The cell phone companies were awarded frequencies years ago.....the traffic along those frequencies has been switched to digital...allowing for a lot more traffic. Technology changed....frequencies did not.
At first, the fcc had lotteries giving one license per city to a non-traditional phone company and one to a regular phone company.
In later years, they auctioned off licenses when they release more....lower frequencies to create more competition.
The frequencies released first were higher frequencies so they wouldn't have to put up cell towers so close together. Higher frequencies do not help a cell phone or cell tower pinpoint more, they just allow towers to be farther apart. Today....a lot of cell towers have more than one company using it so the newer players had no problem buying the lower frequency licenses.....Some were marketed as "PCS"(sprint, for example)
frequency usage is highly regulated in the U.S. Companies are not allowed to change frequencies as technology changes. In fact, they need to base their technology around the frequency they've been awarded.
Doug, if it's any help you're not alone. I didn't know what a cellphone was before Shirl and I got together. When she got a new one, she got me one as well.
They're nice to have in case of emergency or if the missus wants to you stop at the store on the way home from work. I don't use the thing very often. It's more like an expensive pocket watch.
They're nice to have in case of emergency or if the missus wants to you stop at the store on the way home from work. I don't use the thing very often. It's more like an expensive pocket watch.