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- From: gdb15@grebe.cl.cam.ac.uk (Guy Barry)
- Subject: Re: Mercury portable phone network???
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.185235.26687@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK
- References: <1993Jan20.123940.26865@unipalm.co.uk> <727560615snz@gilly.demon.co.uk> <8236@skye.ed.ac.uk> <C19oHI.6vJ@exnet.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:52:35 GMT
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- In article <C19oHI.6vJ@exnet.co.uk> dhd@exnet.co.uk (Damon) writes:
- >In article <8236@skye.ed.ac.uk> ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson) writes:
- >>
- >>In article <727560615snz@gilly.demon.co.uk> Alastair@gilly.demon.co.uk
- >>writes:
- >>
- >># They will be offering a mobile phone service [...] initially with a more
- >># limited coverage inside the M25 for launch
- >>
- >>A fat lot of good that will be to the rest of us.
- >>
- >># ...and rolling out from there to the Greater London area over the next
- >># nine months.
- >>
- >>The WHOLE of the GREATER LONDON AREA? Well, that's all right then.
- >
- >Didn't you know there's no intelligent life ouside the M25, Ken? But
- >then I guess you won't be able to understand me anyway since you're
- >outside the M25. B^>
-
- Er, but you're all missing one thing... the whole of Greater London
- is *inside* the M25. How can the service roll out from a larger
- area to a smaller one?
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