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Cellular Phone Service
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 7:40 am
by jim carrow
As of yesterday, 8/25/2004, the Beaver Island existing Cellular One site has been upgraded to GSM. This is the first BIG step to improved service on the Island. It will immediatly allow visitors who have cellular service with other carriers that have roaming agreements with Cellular One to use their cell phones while visiting the island if they are on a GSM operating system. Some adjustments and tuning are still needed to be done, however in the near future I will be contacting a few local residents to test the system for us. Although this will not immediatly mean better coverage, it will enable us to communicate through the internet by way of cell phone, take and send pictures ETC. Again, you may not notice a big difference in overall coverage, but this is definitly a first BIG step.
Thanks to all for your patience and input.
Re: Cellular Phone Service
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 6:19 pm
by Guest
jim carrow wrote:As of yesterday, 8/25/2004, the Beaver Island existing Cellular One site has been upgraded to GSM. This is the first BIG step to improved service on the Island. It will immediatly allow visitors who have cellular service with other carriers that have roaming agreements with Cellular One to use their cell phones while visiting the island if they are on a GSM operating system. Some adjustments and tuning are still needed to be done, however in the near future I will be contacting a few local residents to test the system for us. Although this will not immediatly mean better coverage, it will enable us to communicate through the internet by way of cell phone, take and send pictures ETC. Again, you may not notice a big difference in overall coverage, but this is definitly a first BIG step.
Thanks to all for your patience and input.[/list]
Please feel free to contact me at
james.carrow@dobson.net
cellular phone service
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 10:29 pm
by Kris S.
While we were staying on the island during the middle part of this month I used my cell phone almost exclusively and found it worked quite well. (Better than at home, in fact, but I live in the middle of a cell phone "dead zone", so that's not saying much.) I live in the 989 area code and didn't even appear to be "roaming". Good luck to all of you who've had trouble getting your cell phones to work. (P.S.: These two are supposed to be talking, not arguing.):argue: