Use your cell phone with your home fax, cordless phones, speaker phones-get rid of land lines!!!!

[erub]

<< Also with $6-7 extra you can get National Long Distance Free!! So technically you can move out after giving initial Texas or southern address! >>



Okay, first of all long distance is different from nationwide roaming - there is a fee for that sometimes, depending on the rate. Second, will all your friends pay long distance to call you? I know mine wont .

 

[erub]

<< if u got a TDMA phone throw it out, it's junk.... get CDMA phone.... >>



thanks but i like mine just fine. If you were already a Cingular customer, I'd tell you to throw yours out, more towers for me (not that i really have problem getting calls through, but anyways..)

 

[digme]

My professor in Electrical Engineering (Electrophysics specialist) helps with monitoring emf waves emitted from cell antennas on top of buildings to check if they do not harm people living in the buildings.

He also tells us that he will only use his cell phone in emergencies. That tells you something...

Anyway, cell phones do not emit crazy amounts of emf, but having them right up against your brain for extended periods of time throughout the years COULD have a negative effect.


mixxen,


i am wondering, does the type of coding transmission used have a significant effect on the throughput from the towers and the throughput from the channel users? i would be interested to know (if u could ask ur teacher)...

 

[digme]

thanks but i like mine just fine. If you were already a Cingular customer, I'd tell you to throw yours out, more towers for me (not that i really have problem getting calls through, but anyways..)

erub,

u must be lucky, because when every TOM, Dick and Harry start to own a cellphone from the same provider that u have around ur neck of woods u will see a difference...

 

[Rhody]

Justincase,

Here is another cause that someone as well informed as yourself might want to dive into:
www.dhmo.org

It is pretty scary stuff, and all backed up by legitimate research. Why do the black helicopter folks insist on suppressing this stuff?

 

[Yonsink]

<< Justincase,

Here is another cause that someone as well informed as yourself might want to dive into:
www.dhmo.org

It is pretty scary stuff, and all backed up by legitimate research. Why do the black helicopter folks insist on suppressing this stuff? >>

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I gotta bookmark this one and pass it along...

 

[Santa]

So how do these things work? Do they actually connect to your Cell phone or are they just giant cell phones themselves that you would have to pay for a seperate line through your wireless company?

I tried to read through the sites and it didn't say anything about how the service itself is supplied, all it said was how to hook up the devices to the wireless gadget.

If you can't connect this to your current cell phone number then wouldn't the cost just be transferred from paying a land line to a new wirless line? Which technically is probably more expensive.

 

[misterj]

i cant even get cingular to give me reliable voice calls. imagine what i'd get compared to the 9600bps max. theory i read somewhere

 

[schizoid]

<< Over the past 3 years, I've lived in 4 different apartments and 2 houses in different parts of 2 cities in 2 states. I've also had a couple of different models of cell phones and 2 different providers and all I can say is wireless is a LONG WAY from replacing land lines

everywhere I've lived I've had connection/dropped call problems when inside of a house >>



Well, I'm doing research on cell phones (hence the sig, I believe) and I can tell you some things:

1. Your statement is incorrect. The result of my research, if it was implemented (which it will be...ok, not my research, but something like it) will allow for NGPNs and all sorts of other things.

2. Cell phones haven't been proven to cause cancer. Technically, neither has cigs. The difference being, the evidence against cigs has been around for 80 someodd years, as apposed to 5 for cell phones, so I guess we'll see.

3. Uhhh...I like the outside too!

 

[fatwombat]

there isn't enough legitimate evidences out there to support the fact that radiation from cellular phones create tumors in humans...
it might in lab rats but that is a different story...
if any of you is interested... research a little... this is a legitimate site... its the national center of biotechnology information
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
go search for cell phones

a few years ago... FDA considered saccharin to be dangerous because it caused cancer in rats... now they are saying that they have made an error and the reason why rats developed cancer was prolly due to the fact that they were drowned in saccharin

i know the risk is still there because some researchs do show a trend but there are also some counter-researchs
in my opinion, you prolly kill more brain cells from drinking Bud than u do from using a cell phone

 

[qtrim]

The worst thing is, if you do get brain cancer from that cell phone you screwed becuase the medical community has found a cure for cancer but is hiding is since they make so much money treating people.

That's another one of my favorate urban legends.

 

[TBP]

<< info on the side,

currently i donot own a cellphone..... I am waiting for 3G to roll out - proposed callendar year is by 2003 or 2004... and the first one to roll out with 3G is going to be ......... SPRINT and 2nd one is going to be Bells -----AT&T is going to be last with Cingular(fn' TDMA takes so many freakin steps to reach Broadband wirelss)... if u got a TDMA phone throw it out, it's junk.... get CDMA phone.... >>




While Americans are still trying to fight the standards (CDMA2000), people in the other side of the world are enjoying their 3G wireless (WTDMA ).

 

[fx72]

For those that do not know how these FWT's work... You will need a GSM wireless carrier (not SprintPCS). You then take the SIM card you get from them, insert the SIM into the FWT, then connect a regular land line phone to it. About this talk of cancer, you are not holding this next to your head... it is fixed in a location in your house... thus the name Fixed Wireless Terminal. I kind of know how these things work since I just happen to work at Telular.

 

[rav]

Thanks fx2 for the SIM card info. SIM cards are great as you can use your sim card on any phone which has a slot for it!! In other words you can share your minutes, take your minutes anywhere..etc.

Other than Telular I do not know any one manufacturing these, any one else has more info? Telualr has price of $199 which may or may not be worth.

I thought Telular also makes model which works with non-GSM phones too, but I could be wrong.

 

[fx72]

Rav - Telular has a patent on the technology (wire-line to wireless), so there really are no other companies out there. There are CDMA models, but for flexibility you would want to have a SIM card, so you can use it in your FWT and in your mobile phone. AT&T is changing fom TDMA to GSM. Cingular and VoiceStream are also GSM.

 

[FuzzyBee]

<< Oh well, a closed mind is a terrible thing to change. >>



You know, it sounds like minds are closed on both sides of this argument.

 

[riznick]

Hardly anything can be proved to cause cancer. The only thing that really causes cancer is your own
self. Cancer is a defect, or flaw that your own body creates.

Tobacco probably doesnt cause cancer. It is though a risk. Smoking does increase your chance of
getting cancer. Smoking anything, not just tobacco. You cant really link tobacco to cancer, especially
when there are so many more variants. The smoke itself is damaging to the lungs making them have
to do more work than regular lungs. The more that your cells have to repair things, the higher chance
that they make a mistake and mutate. The mutations are cancer.

Tobacco will probably never ever be linked directly to cancer.

 

[riznick]

There are probably just as many studies that say "Hot Dogs" cause brain cancer as
do cellphones.

1. CANCER RISKS LURK IN HOT DOGS AND BURGERS
2. CITIZEN PETITION SEEKING LABELING OF NITRITE-PRESERVED HOT DOGS FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER RISK
3. C3 NEWSLETTER: VOL. 11, NO. 3 (JUNE 2000)
4. California government evidence

 

[riznick]

If anything, the cancer talk is way off topic.
This device is only as dangerous as your regular telephones.

 

[Mikelh]

Deleted.

 

[Mikelh]

<< Thanks Snyder. The research IS out there, and available to all those who take the time to look into it.

As you can see though, it's much easier for people to remain ignorant, imply that one is a conspiracy theorist (based on no facts), and hurl what they think are clever little personal insults; rather than challenging their own deep-seated beliefs, then engaging in intelligent discussion on the subject matter. Oh well, a closed mind is a terrible thing to change. >>



Research, NOT guesswork!


Unfortunately, most pro-cell users will not study the facts. It challenges them to make an intelligent decision, and most likely, a decision that is not popular, or even worse than that, changes their mind!

Thank God for edit capabilities!


Michael

 

[scoreadeal]

If you guys find a device that lets you use your cell phone as a cordless phone within 1000 feet of your home, let me know! I think I saw such devices in Popular Science several years back, but they were probably analog based.