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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 18:51:23 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry () piermont com> Date: July 16, 2005 5:55:26 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: Ip ip <ip () v2 listbox com> Subject: Re: [IP] Menino maps cellphone gaps
By Andrea Estes, Globe Staff | July 15, 2005 It is an aggravation of the age, the conversation-stopper that seems always to include the phrase, ''You're breaking up." Cellphone dead zones have irritated many, but recently they have really annoyed Mayor Thomas M. Menino, who says his cellphone conversations get cut off day after day as he traverses the city's neighborhoods. The low-tech, urban mechanic mayor is fed up, he says, and there's no acceptable explanation why a city like Boston should have so many pockets of fog.
I heard Mr. Menino interviewed on NPR yesterday. Fascinatingly, he is very upset with the mobile carriers for dead spots, but he is against leasing city poletops to them, and against having them put up towers in places where he considers them to be aesthetically unpleasing. He wants them to solve the problem "some other way". One therefore wonders how he expects the carriers to fix the problem, since he doesn't want to let them build more base stations. Perhaps with magic. Politicians often seem to believe that engineers have magical mechanisms that we're just too stubborn or pigheaded to use.... For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. --Richard P. Feynman, in his Rogers Commision Report Perry ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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