[ale] droid bricks if mod'ed

[Jim Kinney]

so while _in_ Mobile don't move. :-)

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:12 PM, drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:

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