Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!ames!elroy!gryphon!vector!telecom-gateway From: makela@jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Cellular Telephones around the World Message-ID: Date: 13 Jun 89 22:53:48 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: makela@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) Organization: Grand Hall of Justice, Mega-City One Lines: 26 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 198, message 4 of 6 In article , pwt1%ukc.ac.uk@nsfnet- relay.ac.uk says: > developed and quite sophisticated. The NMT-900 system operating in the > Nordic countries works automatically in all four countries. Even for > incoming calls, >In what way are other non-nordic cellphone systems not automatic on incoming >calls. Surely noone setting up a modern mobile telephone system would consider >making part of it operator controlled .. or would they? > >Peter Thurston. No, what this means is that when travelling in Sweden, I can set a normally Finnish phone to use the local network. No re-wiring, no paperwork, no legal hassles, no nothing. I just have to flip a small switch to mark that I'm using the Swedish network (if you are wandering why a switch, it's there so that I don't get my phone calls routed through Sweden every time I go near the border). Otto J. Makela, University of Jyvaskyla InterNet: makela@tukki.jyu.fi, BitNet: MAKELA_OTTO_@FINJYU.BITNET BBS: +358 41 211 562 (V.22bis/V.22/V.21, 24h/d), Phone: +358 41 613 847 Mail: Kauppakatu 1 B 18, SF-40100 Jyvaskyla, Finland, EUROPE "In the week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbelievable frenzy, an old crone came to visit the mother of the boy, Paul." - Frank Herbert, Dune