From: gl4317@yahoo.com   
      
   In article <_-ednWM3VsztdybOnZ2dnUVZ_radnZ2d@giganews.com>,   
    Robert Heller  wrote:   
      
   > Wireless has many problems, partitularly in hilly, forested areas.  Wireless   
   > only *really* works well over *short* distances and where line-of-sight is   
   > possible.   
      
      
   Tell that to Rogers Communications!  The San Juan Islands are both, yet   
   their cell phone signal from Victoria covers northwest Washington   
   including the San Juan Islands pretty nicely - too bad Canadian roaming   
   charges are so expensive!   
      
   Supposedly the 900 mhz signal that Rock Island Communications is using   
   works reasonably well throughout the islands.   
      
   Even if it doesn't, there's only so much you can do when neither copper   
   nor fiber are available.  I think maybe 6 of the 180 or so named islands   
   have some sort of physical communication link.   
      
   Even those that have a physical communications link are somewhat   
   tenuous.  A few months back someone dropped anchor in a place they   
   shouldn't, and knocked out CentryLink's fiber optic line.  The only   
   phone and internet service working for a month or so was the satellite   
   link operated by the local phone cooperative - or find a place with an   
   expensive but functional signal from Canada.   
      
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