Subj : Re: Stage 4 COVID
To   : POINDEXTER FORTRAN
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Sun Dec 22 2024 04:55 pm

>  DW> I might add that not having a desk phone was really important at this
>  DW> site as, for some very weird reason, it was in a cellular dead spot!

> Back before wi-fi calling became a thing, AT&T set up microcells in our
> office space. It was nice, we got 5 bars in the office instead of
> *maybe* 1 1/2.

> I had a femtocell at home, a little device that hung off my wired
> network and did the same thing, but for 5 phones max.

They always talked about adding "something" to increase the cellular
coverage in that building, but it was either too costly or they liked being
able to track phone usage (by making cell phones not work).  This was about
10 years ago.  Don't think they could get away with that now.

> Now, everyone relies on wi-fi calling. I did like the femtocell, though.
> Sometimes my phone sticks with cell calling when it should be using wifi.

The wifi did work so I guess if you had an app on your phone back then that
could use wifi for calling, it would have worked.  ;)


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