so while _in_ Mobile don't move. :-)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:12 PM, drifter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drifter@oppositelock.org">drifter@oppositelock.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Well, not exactly. :)<br>
<br>
Mobile is more than 20 miles inland from the Gulf -- at the top of Mobile<br>
Bay. T-Mobile has service in Mobile and along the top of the bay, but by<br>
the time you have driven 5 miles south of Mobile (on either side of the<br>
bay) your T-mobile phone has dropped service.<br>
<br>
Sean<br>
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On Thursday 15 July 2010 16:53:18 Pete Hardie wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 16:37, drifter <<a href="mailto:drifter@oppositelock.org">drifter@oppositelock.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> > I can report that T-mobile doesn't work at all along the Gulf coast<br>
> > south of Mobile. Ala.<br>
><br>
> As I recall, that's about 120 yards of sand, then the Gulf.....:)<br>
><br>
> > Sean<br>
> > -----------------------------------<br>
> ><br>
> > On Thursday 15 July 2010 15:54:23 Michael B. Trausch wrote:<br>
> >> On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 14:28 -0400, Greg Clifton wrote:<br>
> >> > I am considering going GSM, however, the big V has me by the short<br>
> >> > hairs, or at least the wallet on 2 of 5 phones on the family plan<br>
> >> > till June '11 and till Aug '10 for another, so I can't afford to<br>
> >> > leave now. Furthermore, ATT coverage isn't all that great and<br>
> >> > Tmobile is worse (I live ~ 30mi S. of Atl). Maybe LTE which V & ATT<br>
> >> > are going to will solve that by 2013? I am leery of Sprint's Wimax<br>
> >> > service so I don't think that is a viable option for the next year<br>
> >> > or two at least.<br>
> >><br>
> >> I haven't been south of Atlanta much, but I can say that my T-Mobile<br>
> >> service has been pretty reliable everywhere that I have been from<br>
> >> Atlanta metro to Detroit, MI, both on and off the beaten path, so to<br>
> >> speak. There is one place in Ohio where T-Mobile doesn't cover that<br>
> >> I have been---but then again, there is *no* cell phone coverage there<br>
> >> whatsoever. I can about 10% of the time in that one particular<br>
> >> location get a local GSM carrier. Fortunately for me, roaming is<br>
> >> free on our plan.*<br>
> >><br>
> >> --- Mike<br>
> >><br>
> >> * Well, at least with the plan that I had at the time, it was. We've<br>
> >> since switched to the "Even More Plus" contract-less and subsidy-free<br>
> >> plan. I haven't actually checked the details on roaming on that<br>
> >> plan, since I roam almost never.<br>
> >><br>
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