[philmont] Cell Phone Coveraage - Verizon Wireless

Doesn't work that way. ATT and Tmobile use GSM. Verizon is CDMA. The beauty
of standards is that there are so many to choose from!

Verizon must have put up a new tower or added hardware to an existing tower.
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On 5/29/08, Olan Watkins <OlanWatkins@compuserve.com> wrote:
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> Last Summer, my wife and I were both at Philmont, she had a Verizon phone
> and I had an AT&T phone. My AT&T phone would work at base camp, but her
> Verizon phone would not.
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> Perhaps the different cell phone companies have reached some agreement on
> sharing a cell tower.
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> Olan
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Received on Tue Jun 3 12:47:53 2008