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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 00:14:53 GMT
- From: furtaw@comm.mot.com (Bob Furtaw)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Two Cellular Phones on the Same Number
- Message-ID: <telecom12.843.8@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Motorola
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 843, Message 8 of 11
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- In article <telecom12.830.7@eecs.nwu.edu>, tg@chmsr.gatech.edu (T.
- Govindaraj) wrote:
-
- > installer suggested a place called Recellular with an 800 number. He
- > suggested the Motorola Flip Phone, Classic, or Ultra Classic. (We now
- > have a Panasonic EB3500. A lighter, but not too expensive will be
- > nice.)
-
- Motorola makes a package that is called the Extended System. It
- basically copies your Mico-Tac's phone number, when mounted in a
- pocket, into your permanently mounted car telephone. When in the car,
- you get all the features of your car phone ... hands free, high power
- RF PA, car speaker, external car antenna, etc. When removed the
- number remains the same. One phone number, one bill. As an option,
- you can get two numbers so you can call the other when the Micro-Tac
- is not installed. When you get one number, the car phone is
- essentially dead when the Micro-Tac is removed.
-
- > [Moderator's Note: Uh, not to disappoint you, but have you cleared
- > this with the cellular company? Most do NOT allow two or more phones
- > to share the same number because the ESN is different in each phone
- > and ESN validation is what cellular billing integrity is all about. An
- > analogy would be two landline customers sharing the same wire pair and
- > expecting telco to figure out who to bill for which calls. Most
- > cellular systems will only validate one ESN per line. Even using it
- > the way you describe it, you could never call *each other* on the
- > other's cell phone. Why not just get two numbers; that is what
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Now there's an option.
-
- > everyone else does.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- There are inexpensive calling packages for casual only becuase they
- didn't know of availability.
-
-
- Bob Furtaw - W8IL CFI-A/G/I/MEI, CGI-A/I
- All disclaimers ever written by anybody apply. :-)
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