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Date: Sat, 20-Sep-86 01:27:35 EDT
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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 86 00:47:49 edt
From: decwrl!decvax!LOCAL!utzoo!henry@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU
To: telecom@xx.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Wilderness Phone

> Problem: remote cabins miles from last telephone pole so estimated
> cost to install a conventional local loop is over $20,000... there
> ought to be something cheaper to install...

I'm not aware of anything operational right now.  Canada's M-Sat proposal
would provide the equivalent of cellular phone service over the entire
continent, but US cooperation on frequency assignment etc. is considered
essential to it... and last I heard the project was dying because the FCC
wanted to do something different with the frequencies.

				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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