On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, William Donzelli wrote:
> > Setting up a celular base station while not trivial is not impossible.
> > The hardest part is the RF Tx and Rx sections, of which you need at
> > least two if you want to place calls and three if you want to place a
> > call to another phone on the same base. 50 to 75 years from now the
> > cell phone collectors should be able to make their own base stations
> > and route calls to other like minded people via their ever-on
> > broadband network connections.
>
> I doubt it will happen. Telephone collectors are an odd bunch - most,
> nearly all, completely ignore any phone equipment beyond, well, the
> telephone. There are extremely few that care about CO equipment.
Sounds like Beanie Baby syndrome.
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