goodbye cell phone service...
Today is the day cell companies can turn off their analog towers... There had been a law keeping analog from dying, presumably to allow folks to transition to digital phones. Of course, now the companies can switch it off, and probably will, being that analog is more expensive to operate, and it will increase revenue to have old folks upgrade their phones.
What this means to me, though, is that there will be no signal in most rural areas through which I travel, and no signal to my parents' house.
Fantastic!
I can't wait till there's no TV signal there, too, once THAT digital conversion happens next year. I'll have to ask Cynedd what that will really be like. They barely get 3 channels (fuzzy) as it is. I can't imagine what it will be like trying to watch with digital signal. I imagine the worst: too little signal to decode into a picture.