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To: AJ Berger who wrote (840)6/15/1999 8:55:00 PM
From: RMiethe  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 904
 
I don't own share one of CD Radio-- not a share.

But last I looked, my hometown of Pacific Palisades has no lamps (and so no lamp posts) on the highways-- as is the case with almost the entire Pacific Coast Highway in California. Also goes for endless stretches on Route 72 down to Palm Springs from Los Angeles. It's a bitch driving at night there.

Come to think of it, we travelled through Colorado and some southwestern states on the way to my wife's family in Oklahoma two years ago. I only remember how many times the driving got serious at night with no lamp posts (lighting) on the US highways.

Or didn't you know that the big country has really little lighting at night?

Also-- do you think Ford Motor Company, who signed on with CD radio today, knows there are no lamp post repeater facilities that could give its cars wireless internet radio access? Some way I just think that the folks at Ford know how many lamp posts there are on the US roads for its cars.

Case closed. Drive safely, buddy.




To: AJ Berger who wrote (840)6/15/1999 9:41:00 PM
From: Bob A Louie  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 904
 
<if companies like MetroCom wanted to cover all of Urban USA, it would
take relatively little time and cost to impliment and be infinately more versitile than a handful of push satellites.>

So why haven't they? BTW, at what frequencies did Metricom obtain FCC licenses to do this?