> >At least some cell co's drive a van around with multiple cell phones >wired up, making calls, monitoring cell call quality, and so on, so they >know what quality service they're providing - Good sign IMO Making sure they degrade analog service enough to force people to switch to digital. >They're also interested in determining location for those 911 calls >where the EMS people want to know where someone is, and they don't / >cannot say; Someone kidnapped and stuck in a trunk, for example, could >call on a cell phone and not KNOW where they were at. The tighter >search zone, the faster results, on searches! (Probably poor call >quality, but in that circumstance, take what you can get.) GPS dosen't work in a trunk. Nor even indoors. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.