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I don't. I use POTS. I'm not entirely against the idea of a cellphone, but they are rarely needed. In the past, I have used several traditional "dumb" cellphon

by pdkl95 11y ago

I don't. I use POTS. I'm not entirely against the idea of a cellphone, but they are rarely needed. In the past, I have used several traditional "dumb" cellphones. These days, I'm rarely that far from a POTS line. Even without the data-collection problems and cost differences, I prefer the quality of a waveguide to the intermittent reception problems of radio. Wave is cool - I really wish it was more popular. I actually use XMPP+OTR for a lot of stuff, which used to be very interoperable. sigh If I needed to be on-call, I would follow Dan Geer's lead and use a pager.

morganvachon 11y ago
> If I needed to be on-call, I would follow Dan Geer's lead and use a pager. And if you can't find a paging service you like, trust, or can afford, you can always (assuming you have an amateur radio license and don't intend to run a business using it) set up your own: http://www.n5dux.com/ham/files/pdf/Ham%20Radio%20Paging-Putting%20POCSAG%20On%20Packet.pdf http://www.n5dux.com/ham/files/pdf/Ham%20Radio%20Paging-Putt... http://aprs.org/aprs-messaging.html http://aprs.org/aprs-messaging.html http://www.qsl.net/kb9mwr/projects/pager/plan.html http://www.qsl.net/kb9mwr/projects/pager/plan.html