[outages] ATT Mircocell

[Josh Jacoby]

T-Mobile offers voice, SMS, and MMS over WiFi on most of its devices and
has for the last several years.  This feature alone is a great reason to
make a change and one reason I was so fearful of AT&T buying them up last
year.
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*Josh Jacoby*
josh at wholesalepbx.com
+1.916.282.5100 ext. 822


On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:51 AM, Alex Rubenstein <alex at corp.nac.net> wrote:

> ATT Microcell's aggravate me. You would think they would want the world to
> install as many of these things they can, helping make their coverage
> ubiquitous. Instead, you have a unit which requires sky view (GPS), so that
> makes it damn near impossible to use in a basement (where many people don't
> have good cell coverage), and you have to pre-register the phones that will
> use it - with a limitation on it of how many phones are allowed to be
> pre-registered.
>
> This goes along with a whole list of complaints I have about cell
> carriers, who seem to have stalled in technology acceptance. Why no
> cell-voice or SMS or MMS over WiFi? I know a carrier or two are doing this,
> but it is not widely deployed. If they are complaining so much about
> network and frequency congestion, it seems that this sort of offload would
> be something they want.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: outages-bounces at outages.org [mailto:outages-bounces at outages.org] On
> Behalf Of Gabriel Gunderson
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 12:01 AM
> To: Fuat Baran
> Cc: outages at outages.org
> Subject: Re: [outages] ATT Mircocell
>
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Fuat Baran <fuat at columbia.edu> wrote:
> > Mine started working again last night.
>
> Mine's never worked, and I had to pay for mine. ;) Gotta love AT&T. Oh
> well.
>
>
> Gabe
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