Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!ucsd!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Airphones and Receiving Calls Message-ID: Date: 17 Feb 91 05:06:44 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 18 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 125, Message 8 of 9 harrison@apple.com (John Harrison) writes: >Why can't you really receive calls on a GTE Airphone? Is this >something that GTE has chose not to implement or are there other >technical reasons. Because there might be 10-50 airphone handsets on a plane, and many of these are mobile, how would you know which handset a certain person might be near? And, would *you* answer one, knowing that you might be paying exorbitant AirFone airtime prices for a possible wrong number? It's simply much easier to have only dial-out. If you need the opposite direction, that's why they make SkyPager: an alphanumeric pager that works all over the country, including in planes. David Lemson U of Illinois Computing Services Student Consultant Internet : lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson