It's not like roaming agreements will escalate in price like the channel owners with their fiscal irresponsibility of buying up content at exorbitant prices and exclusivity deals expecting to pass those costs on to the viewers. Big difference.
DISH to Become National Facilities-based Wireless Carrier
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I haven't seen a party line since touch tone phones were introduced.
"Most large phone companies eliminated party lines for good between 1988 and 2000. By 2000, according to USA Today, there were still over 5,000 party lines still in existence in the U.S., but the majority of them were hooked up to only one remaining household. They were party lines in name only."
AT&T Archives: Party Lines.
Of course I was making a joke off the "party line vote" of the previous post, but I do have an anecdote.
In 1989 I was working for Brinks Home Security (basically give away the equipment for a two year contract on monitoring. Sorta like Dish!) and, of course, having a phone line was necessary. So I'm at a customer's house in a very good neighborhood and he says his phone bill was $5 a month and my jaw dropped to the floor. Turns out he knew the trick of ordering a "Party Line" which AT&T had to honor, even though they couldn't physically do it. He got the same phone service as everyone else, just 75% cheaper.
I remember the same sort of thing happening with "Air Mail" (for you young whippersnappers, if you wanted your "snail mail" to get there faster, you ordered a much more expensive stamp and the post would go by airplane). However, as time went on, the postal service started to use aircraft to go much more than 250 miles anyway. So we figured out that a "regular" letter would get to its destination by air regardless if you bought an airmail stamp or not. Away went the airmail stamp.
Well Gosh! I had a car phone that was a pain and was glad to see that new fangled tech come around. I guess I'll just have to get a cell again. After having one of the first "Bricks" in Santa Fe. Then since I was in with "the powers that be", I got one of the first "Startacs". Had upgraded until I dumped TMobile in 2003, three years later than I should have.
I haven't missed it a bit! But I knew something like this was in the works when Charlie started buying up bandwidth. I was really hoping that since I'm 20+ year Dish sub, that we'd get some sweet deals on and with the newest best tech. Sometimes it is worth the wait!
Fingers Crossed!
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I haven't missed it a bit! But I knew something like this was in the works when Charlie started buying up bandwidth. I was really hoping that since I'm 20+ year Dish sub, that we'd get some sweet deals on and with the newest best tech. Sometimes it is worth the wait!
Fingers Crossed!
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Um, the party line phones I worked with back in the 60s early 70s had exactly the same voltage. They were 2 party lines, tip and ring. The ringing voltage was passed on either the tip side or the ring side of the line to ring the proper telephone. The ring side was wired exactly the same way modern telephones are wired. The tip side telephone had to be rewired to accommodate the ground return. Older systems, and I didn't work on any of these, would send different ringing cycles to alert the proper user that the phone call was for them. In those situations all the phones rang together. Because of that the ringing amperage needed to be higher to allow all the bells to ring. The talking voltage was always 48vdc.
Don’t know about how they were hooked up, but the phones (“instruments”) were the same. When we moved from party line to dedicated, we used the exact same ones. New Orleans, zone 14.
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The phones would remain the same but the tip side phones would need to be rewired to accept ringing on the ring side of the line.
The first phone we had at our Adirondack cottage back in the mid-60's was on a 13 party line. The various combinations used tip and ring, tip and ground, ring and ground, and 60 and 400 HZ ringers to manage it all on two wires. Oddly, we had fewer problems getting the line on that setup than we did when they dropped us down to a 4 party line a few years later. One of the things we liked with the party line was that we could be visiting our neighbor and still get our calls just by listening for our ring.
Dish reportedly begins leasing towers for 5G | Light Reading
The Wall Street analysts at Wells Fargo reported that one contact said Dish has already inked leases for hundreds of cell towers to hold its 5G equipment.
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Dish reportedly begins leasing towers for 5G | Light Reading
The Wall Street analysts at Wells Fargo reported that one contact said Dish has already inked leases for hundreds of cell towers to hold its 5G equipment.
Nice find. It's really apparently happening.....
As we all know, it’s stupid to bet against Charlie. The man is a master bluffer and pulls through when you think he is bluffing the hardest.
