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Re: Is Verizon Wireless Sabotaging Older Cell Phones?

Steve Sobol (sjsobol@JustThe.net)
Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:36:14 -0700

hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

> I don't know about that stuff. I do know that, for some time now,
> none of the carriers would activate any analog phones.

There is, from the carrier's perspective, a very good reason not to
activate analog-only phones; you can't put anywhere near the number of
callers onto a tower with analog that you can with digital.

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