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If you're a business man who lives off his laptop then when your at home you use the laptop on the high speed, however you may happen to be on the road and at a motel that doesn't have INET and you need to check your mail. So you plug into the phone line and you dial up using your subscription so you can check your mail while on the move.
Things get infinitly more complicated if you start talking about cell phones being used in place of a land line so lets not go their.
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Things get infinitly more complicated if you start talking about cell phones being used in place of a land line so lets not go their.
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...so for my simple world I dont need to pay extra for the dial-up, thanks for the clarification...
...As far as cell phones, tried it once for a year...now it collects dust somewhere in the closet, IMHO its a rip off and waste of money..
Although I now see commercials from one company that rolls over your unused minutes...That was just one of my complaints with the cell phone company...
...As far as cell phones, tried it once for a year...now it collects dust somewhere in the closet, IMHO its a rip off and waste of money..
Although I now see commercials from one company that rolls over your unused minutes...That was just one of my complaints with the cell phone company...
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Cell phones are the biggest PITA I know of. I had one a few years ago, got rid of it. But as my business got bigger and I started travelling a little farther I got one again (much to my displeasure) I prefer people can only get ahold of me when I call them ;-)
The WORST part is though when your in the stix they dont work anyway,if I'm stranded in the city what does it matter? The only time I need help is if I cant get home ;/
Does anyone have a Satellite phone? And how much are they. I understand they work everywhere.
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The WORST part is though when your in the stix they dont work anyway,if I'm stranded in the city what does it matter? The only time I need help is if I cant get home ;/
Does anyone have a Satellite phone? And how much are they. I understand they work everywhere.
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I've installed a few Sat. phones. The price of the units are pretty high compared to cell. Per minute is over a $1. They don't work everywhere. Kind of like a GPS. If you're deep in a valley, forest, buildings, etc, something's blocking the radio from the Sat., they won't work. For a lot of remote places, they are the way to go.
One guy that had one told me he was down close to the Mexican border. Used his Sat phone to make a call and it got routed through the S. American Earth Station...lol, long distance was something like $5/ min.
One guy that had one told me he was down close to the Mexican border. Used his Sat phone to make a call and it got routed through the S. American Earth Station...lol, long distance was something like $5/ min.
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Wow even a simple call would be 10$ for 10mins. eesh. Talk about just for emergencies.
I guess their is no "ideal" solution for everywhere yet. I have a GSM phone and once I get out into the country I get 0 signal. My girlfriend has one of those old beast digital/analog phones and it works alot better then mine out their but if I go far enough even hers doesn't work ;/
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I guess their is no "ideal" solution for everywhere yet. I have a GSM phone and once I get out into the country I get 0 signal. My girlfriend has one of those old beast digital/analog phones and it works alot better then mine out their but if I go far enough even hers doesn't work ;/
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