[IP] Fwd: Low-tech phones triumph.....
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Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 18:57:43 -0400
From: Paul Levy <PLEVY@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Low-tech phones triumph.....
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Interesting article in today's Washington Post about how cell phones
aren't coping as well as landlines with the effects of Hurricane
Isabel:
Traditional Phones Gain New Respect
Power Failures Cut Cell Signals
By Christopher Stern and Yuki Noguchi
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, September 20, 2003; Page E01
It wasn't until yesterday morning that Margaret L. Sullivan began to
have second thoughts about getting rid of her old plug-in-the-wall
telephone and becoming completely dependent on her mobile phone at her
Falls Church apartment..........
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37299-2003Sep19.html
Paul Alan Levy
Public Citizen Litigation Group
1600 - 20th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20009
(202) 588-1000
http://www.citizen.org/litigation/litigation.html
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