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Re: ANN> Cell Phone NETWORK DETECTOR 1.2

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From: Quick
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 15:58
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uksavethetrees@hotmail.com wrote:
> I need something like that and took a good look at
> mapxmap. Before forking over the money, checked around
> for free stuff that does the same like theirs.
> Mark H. got a lot of stuff out of his pumpkin, but
> nothing useful yet: like WHERE EXACTLY can one find the
> "plenty of free ones around" that show the names of all
> the cellular networks available where I live - and I am
> talking about the useful signal here not the
> self-promoting maps supplied by crazy-about-your-money
> companies - they show you a map with red and blue but
> there are literally tens of thousands of spots within
> those areas where the phones do not work because of
> thousands of reasons - forests, hills, towers, buildings,
> bridges, too many idiots, and so on.
>
> So, Mark, where is the free stuff you are talking about?
> Or you are just a hot air balloon?
>
> Not to mention your other statements, like the one about
> reading the level of signal in dB (real signal strength)
> by "simply looking at the screen of your mobile phone".
> Show me the stuff, please. (:-)

Every phone I've had had a test screen that would show
dB, noise level, SIDs, neighbors, etc, etc.

-Quick
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Subject: Re: ANN> Cell Phone NETWORK DETECTOR 1.2
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 08:58:08 -0700
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