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- 07-29-2003, 02:09 PM #1Roy N.Guest
I know this is probably a dumb question, but does Sprint have coverage in
Yosemite? I would be outraged if there are cell towers in Yosemite. But at
the same time, I'm hoping to get coverage while I'm there.
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- 07-29-2003, 02:30 PM #2Larry ThomasGuest
Re: SPCS coverage in Yosemite?
No Sprint coverage. There are a couple of analog towers in or near the
park that you can roam on.
--
-Larry
Sprint user since 1997
"Roy N." <[email protected]> wrote in article
<AvAVa.8054$Oz4.2079@rwcrnsc54>:
> I know this is probably a dumb question, but does Sprint have coverage in
> Yosemite? I would be outraged if there are cell towers in Yosemite. But at
> the same time, I'm hoping to get coverage while I'm there.
>
>
[posted via phonescoop.com - free web access to the alt.cellular groups]
- 07-29-2003, 06:52 PM #3PCWGuest
Re: SPCS coverage in Yosemite?
"Roy N." <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<AvAVa.8054$Oz4.2079@rwcrnsc54>...
> I know this is probably a dumb question, but does Sprint have coverage in
> Yosemite? I would be outraged if there are cell towers in Yosemite. But at
> the same time, I'm hoping to get coverage while I'm there.
Roy,
Are you equally outraged at the proliferation of utility poles, high
tension power lines, telephone lines, signposts, trash containers,
street lamp standards, etc. throughout certain areas of Yosemite (as
well as EVERYWHERE else in the civilized world)?
I simply don't understand your sense of outrage, given the fact that
you, like many other NIMBYs, want wireless coverage, but won't accept
the necessary infrastructure. The signals don't beam down from Mars!
Perhaps I'm missing something.
Cordially,
The rest of us
- 07-29-2003, 07:43 PM #4Roy N.Guest
Re: SPCS coverage in Yosemite?
I'm not a NIMBY. I don't have a problem with it in the backyard.
But I have a SERIOUS problem with overdevelopment in national parks and
preserved areas.
Sure I'd like to have coverage in Yosemite, but I'd much rather not have the
coverage if it means keeping development down.
"PCW" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> "Roy N." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:<AvAVa.8054$Oz4.2079@rwcrnsc54>...
> > I know this is probably a dumb question, but does Sprint have coverage
in
> > Yosemite? I would be outraged if there are cell towers in Yosemite. But
at
> > the same time, I'm hoping to get coverage while I'm there.
>
> Roy,
> Are you equally outraged at the proliferation of utility poles, high
> tension power lines, telephone lines, signposts, trash containers,
> street lamp standards, etc. throughout certain areas of Yosemite (as
> well as EVERYWHERE else in the civilized world)?
>
> I simply don't understand your sense of outrage, given the fact that
> you, like many other NIMBYs, want wireless coverage, but won't accept
> the necessary infrastructure. The signals don't beam down from Mars!
>
> Perhaps I'm missing something.
>
> Cordially,
>
> The rest of us
- 07-29-2003, 07:46 PM #5Roy N.Guest
Re: SPCS coverage in Yosemite?
I've never been to Yosemite, so let me ask this, do they have any places
where you can get Internet access there? Like a business center or anything
like that?
I know, you probably think I'm smoking crack but I've got a major project
that needs to be ready on Monday so I'd like to check in every once in a
while...
In the alternative, anyone know the Website/company with the best prepaid
calling card rates?
"Larry Thomas" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> No Sprint coverage. There are a couple of analog towers in or near the
> park that you can roam on.
>
> --
> -Larry
> Sprint user since 1997
>
>
>
> "Roy N." <[email protected]> wrote in article
> <AvAVa.8054$Oz4.2079@rwcrnsc54>:
> > I know this is probably a dumb question, but does Sprint have coverage
in
> > Yosemite? I would be outraged if there are cell towers in Yosemite. But
at
> > the same time, I'm hoping to get coverage while I'm there.
> >
> >
>
> [posted via phonescoop.com - free web access to the alt.cellular groups]
- 07-29-2003, 10:54 PM #6Frank HarrisGuest
Re: SPCS coverage in Yosemite?
A few years ago my SPCS phone roamed (at extra cost) on a strong analog
signal in Yosemite Valley. I think the provider was ATTWS.
Sprint has native coverage in Oakhurst on Hwy 41 south of the park.
For more on the subject go to Google Groups Advanced search, and search
for Yosemite in alt.cellular* over the past year.
http://www.google.com/advanced_group...n&lr=&ie=UTF-8
Roy N. wrote:
> I know this is probably a dumb question, but does Sprint have coverage in
> Yosemite? I would be outraged if there are cell towers in Yosemite. But at
> the same time, I'm hoping to get coverage while I'm there.
>
>
--
Frank Harris in San Francisco with an A460
- 07-30-2003, 01:38 PM #7Isaiah BeardGuest
Re: SPCS coverage in Yosemite?
Roy N. wrote:
> I know this is probably a dumb question, but does Sprint have coverage in
> Yosemite? I would be outraged if there are cell towers in Yosemite. But at
> the same time, I'm hoping to get coverage while I'm there.
Hehe... well if that's the case, then it's people like you who quite
frankly, don't deserve a cell phone. It's utterly moronic to be
outraged if cell sites are erected, yet expect to have coverage.
- 07-30-2003, 01:43 PM #8Isaiah BeardGuest
Re: SPCS coverage in Yosemite?
Roy N. wrote:
> I've never been to Yosemite, so let me ask this, do they have any places
> where you can get Internet access there? Like a business center or anything
> like that?
Internet access = wireless antrennas or the trenching of lines to
support internet connections = development activity and sigificant
ripping up of the ground. So I imagine if they did offer internet
access, you'd be very upset at what had to happen to make it so.
- 07-30-2003, 09:51 PM #9Roy N.Guest
Re: SPCS coverage in Yosemite?
You are the moron because you need to learn how to read.
Where did I say I EX{ECTED to have coverage? I did not expect to have
coverage, in fact, I said that I was probably asking dumb question because I
expected NOT to have coverage. But if there was coverage, I wanted to know
about it. I'd hate to lug my laptop up to the woods for nothing. That's the
point of having a newsgroup you know, to ask questions that other people
might know the answer to.
Idiots like you who don't know how to read don't deserve a cell phone.
Sheesh.
"Isaiah Beard" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Roy N. wrote:
>
> > I know this is probably a dumb question, but does Sprint have coverage
in
> > Yosemite? I would be outraged if there are cell towers in Yosemite. But
at
> > the same time, I'm hoping to get coverage while I'm there.
>
> Hehe... well if that's the case, then it's people like you who quite
> frankly, don't deserve a cell phone. It's utterly moronic to be
> outraged if cell sites are erected, yet expect to have coverage.
>
- 08-01-2003, 09:08 AM #10Isaiah BeardGuest
Re: SPCS coverage in Yosemite?
Roy N. wrote:
> You are the moron because you need to learn how to read.
No, I think it is you who needs to learn. I didn't call you a moron. I
said it would be moronic to expect coverage while at the same time
complaining about developmend. But since you're backpedaling on your
expectations, then I guess you don't qualify as a moron then, do you?
You don't need to get defensive. Unless of course, you know for a fact
that your position is faulty.
{snip}
> But if there was coverage, I wanted to know
> about it. I'd hate to lug my laptop up to the woods for nothing.
Why would you lug your laptop into the woods for *anything*? For
someone so dedicated to preserving the natural beauty of our national
monuments, you sure seem reluctant to give up the amenities of a
developed area, if only for a few days.
> That's the
> point of having a newsgroup you know, to ask questions that other people
> might know the answer to.
Looks like you answered your own question. If you don't expect
coverage, then don't bring your laptop and cell phone. If the coverage
is there and you'd be angry about it, then why demonstrate the need for
that coverage by using your cell phone as a data connection while there?
You're tearing down your own case against development in Yosemite.
> Idiots like you who don't know how to read don't deserve a cell phone.
So then, you agree that you don't deserve a cell phone?
- 08-01-2003, 11:01 AM #11dk2463Guest
Re: SPCS coverage in Yosemite?
Sprint coverage exists in Oakhurst and stops about a mile out as you go
up the mountain toward Yosemite. You may find a spot here or there in
Fish Camp (I have a cabin there so I know the spots of reception pretty
well). You can pull in to the Tenaya Lodge parking lot and get rf but
outside of that, no way unless you use the sole provider of analog
coverage in the valley which is Mountain Wireless or something like
that.
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