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Re:Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular networ... by sumtechguy on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:35PM (#27999051)
Don't know why but this reminds me of one support ticket on those things. 'i can not download any books' 'uh sir according to our data you are 10 miles off the coast of florida?' 'oh yeah I am on my boat' 'do you see any cell towers?' 'no' 'they need those to work' 'ohhhhh'

We were surprised that it even had enough signal to figure out the GPS cords.

Even back then cell coverage was not as good as it is now. So many times it was 'go stand at the end of your driveway and try'.

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Re:Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular networ... by ghaff on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:40PM (#27999142)
>So many times it was 'go stand at the end of your driveway and try'.

Like my dad's house in Maine today :-)

In the early years of the iPhone in the US, there was--including on this site I imagine--much wailing and gnashing of teeth over AT&T's coverage.

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Re:Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular networ... by sumtechguy on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:46PM (#27999211)
Think with early kindle it was altel and sprint. Verizon buying altel fixed a lot of that issue. But there were still gaps.
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Re:Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular networ... by Wowfunhappy on Friday July 30, 2021 @09:02AM (#28007465)
...how were they calling you if they had no cell service?
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Re:Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular networ... by sumtechguy on Friday July 30, 2021 @09:18AM (#28007621)
Good question! We had the same one. They had a satellite phone.

edit: What I find interesting is that the things had location tracking built in and no one blinked an eye.

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