Cingular pushes the PTT button

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In <[email protected]> on Tue, 06 Dec 2005
07:17:56 -0500, "Elmo P. Shagnasty" <[email protected]> wrote:

>In article <[email protected]>,
> John Navas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> >> >give the person equal capability to exhibit rudeness as
>> >> >the Nextel stuff does.
>> >>
>> >> But much less likely -- people rarely turn on speakerphones in public,
>> >> whereas
>> >> a fair number of NEXTEL folks seem to revel in public walkie talkie mode.
>> >
>> >And you think someone else's walkie-talkie mode will have people
>> >behaving differently?
>>
>> I didn't say that.
>
>yes, you did. ...

Nope.

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Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> SMS <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Everyone in my wife's office has a Nextel, and they can't use
>> PTT because of the confidentiality of their conversations,
>
> I'm sorry?
>
> EVERY Nextel phone/radio has a button on it to cut the speaker off.

They can't leave the PTT speaker on most of the time, which was the
whole point of the company getting them PTT, so a group broadcast could
be made, that the employees would not miss. Add to that, the Nextel
coverage problems, and it was really a waste of money.

Cingular PTT won't help them much. The coverage is better than Nextel,
but there are still many areas in the Bay Area which lack GSM coverage.
We're talking towns with just a couple of hundred people, up in the
mountains or out by the San Mateo coastline. It doesn't matter to many
people to not have coverage in those areas, but it does matter to some
people.

Most of the employees have a Verizon tri-band phone, since it's the only
service that works in virtually every populated area of the region.

"John Navas" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

>
> May be Hooked on Writing would help your case. That's not what you wrote.
>

And I didn't say what you claimed, either. You have proven yourself to be
an idiot once again.

Why do I think the only thing that John will respond to is the previous
sentence?

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In <[email protected]> on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 09:14:08
-0800, SMS <[email protected]> wrote:

>Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
>> In article <[email protected]>,
>> SMS <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Everyone in my wife's office has a Nextel, and they can't use
>>> PTT because of the confidentiality of their conversations,
>>
>> I'm sorry?
>>
>> EVERY Nextel phone/radio has a button on it to cut the speaker off.
>
>They can't leave the PTT speaker on most of the time, which was the
>whole point of the company getting them PTT, so a group broadcast could
>be made, that the employees would not miss. Add to that, the Nextel
>coverage problems, and it was really a waste of money.
>
>Cingular PTT won't help them much. The coverage is better than Nextel,
>but there are still many areas in the Bay Area which lack GSM coverage.
>We're talking towns with just a couple of hundred people, up in the
>mountains or out by the San Mateo coastline. It doesn't matter to many
>people to not have coverage in those areas, but it does matter to some
>people.
>
>Most of the employees have a Verizon tri-band phone, since it's the only
>service that works in virtually every populated area of the region.

Yet more pro-Verizon anti-Cingular propaganda. For Pete's sake, give it a
rest. Cingular actually has better coverage here than Verizon.

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"John Navas" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> In <[email protected]> on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 09:14:08
> -0800, SMS <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
>>> In article <[email protected]>,
>>> SMS <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Everyone in my wife's office has a Nextel, and they can't use
>>>> PTT because of the confidentiality of their conversations,
>>>
>>> I'm sorry?
>>>
>>> EVERY Nextel phone/radio has a button on it to cut the speaker off.
>>
>>They can't leave the PTT speaker on most of the time, which was the
>>whole point of the company getting them PTT, so a group broadcast could
>>be made, that the employees would not miss. Add to that, the Nextel
>>coverage problems, and it was really a waste of money.
>>
>>Cingular PTT won't help them much. The coverage is better than Nextel,
>>but there are still many areas in the Bay Area which lack GSM coverage.
>>We're talking towns with just a couple of hundred people, up in the
>>mountains or out by the San Mateo coastline. It doesn't matter to many
>>people to not have coverage in those areas, but it does matter to some
>>people.
>>
>>Most of the employees have a Verizon tri-band phone, since it's the only
>>service that works in virtually every populated area of the region.
>
> Yet more pro-Verizon anti-Cingular propaganda. For Pete's sake, give it a
> rest. Cingular actually has better coverage here than Verizon.
>
No, it doesn't.

Scott wrote:

> No, it doesn't.

Why do you bother to respond? You do understand that many of us in this
group have kill-filed Navas, but are subjected to his ignorance because
so many people feel compelled to continually correct his mis-statements.

"Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes."
Jawaharlal Nehru

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In <[email protected]> on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:16:39
-0800, SMS <[email protected]> wrote:

>Scott wrote:
>
>> No, it doesn't.
>
>Why do you bother to respond? You do understand that many of us in this
>group have kill-filed Navas, but are subjected to his ignorance because
>so many people feel compelled to continually correct his mis-statements.
>
>"Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes."
>Jawaharlal Nehru

"A little learning is a dangerous thing." [Alexander Pope]

"It is better to sit in silence and appear ignorant,
than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." [Mark Twain]

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In <[email protected]> on Wed, 07 Dec 2005
22:23:38 -0500, "Elmo P. Shagnasty" <[email protected]> wrote:

>In article
><[email protected]>,
> John Navas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> "It is better to sit in silence and appear ignorant,
>> than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." [Mark Twain]
>
>Physician, heal thyself.

So you didn't cut all your classes, just most of them.

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