Re: [VIC] Enthusiast Tours vs Tourist Trips (was: high speed tours (was: [VIC] R766 and R711 Ballarat tour.))

[Michael Kurkowski <mk@netstra.com.au>]

Hi,

I just realised after that post that they were most likely some sort of 
standard mobile phone. I remember about 4 years ago now installing analogue 
payphones into rent-a-cars as part of my work experience. They were 
different to these ones, in the fact it was just a standard mobile handset 
with a credit card swipe to one side.

Anyway, I won't be sorry to see AMPS go. AMPS lost me about 3 years ago 
when it started getting harder and harder to use to the point that it took 
no less than 10 tries to call my analogue phone and actually get through 
while I was at home (back then, right at the top of the hill in Reservoir. 
No GSM phone ever had such problems there). I was sorry to see my AMPS 
phone go though, since I had just about the best phone number. Alas, CDMA 
from my experience so far isn't too crash hot either (i.e. audio cuts out 
if there is a bit of background noise on the other end) and if Telstra are 
going to get the coverage expected from it by the time AMPS is shut down, 
they better hurry, they have a lot to go (leave the suburbs, and your dual-
mode CDMA phone will switch across to AMPS, even in some suburban areas).

Where I mentioned two mobile phones that didn't work, I was referring to 
Optus and Vodafone :)

Anyway, this is enough off topic stuff from me.

Regards
Michael


Craig Haber said in message <3865AB20.48A69BED@harnessnet.com.au>, I
therefore quote: 

>> Next tour that has to have a BRS car, I want the one we had on the F
>> class tour. It had a satellite payphone (absolute requirement, when
>> one carries around two mobile phones that don't work!)
>
>They're not satellite, they're analogue mobiles, and hence will have to
>be removed coz the analog network is closing :(
>

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