[Hidden-tech] unlocking cell phones - how's Sprint for 3G 'round these parts?

[Chris Hoogendyk]

If you want to be socially conscious, go with Credo (used to be Working 
Assets Wireless). They use the sprint network. They currently have a 
deal where you can get a Solio solar recharger along with a phone with a 
2 year contract. We have used them for years, and everyone in my family 
has their own cell phone line. Every year you can participate in the 
voting to determine what causes profits get contributed to.

Nobody has total coverage, but I've been happy with ours. Ours drops off 
when we go down the hill south of the main shopping areas of 
Northampton. Picks back up if we are high in the building or get back up 
on the main drag. I think the towers are probably on north King Street. 
I actually got coverage once on a southwest facing slope of a mountain 
along the N.H. border of Maine. We were coming over the top after a 
couple of days of backpacking, dead tired, and decided to try and call 
our favorite B&B to see if they had a room available. It worked. 
Leverette is sort of like that. You have to be on the right bend of the 
road for any cell phone to work.


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Chris Hoogendyk

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  c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments
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<hoogendyk at bio.umass.edu>

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