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 * Quote from CHARLES HUNTER to JEROME ZELINSKE dated 05-22-97.
JZ>Only the phones sold through a Sprint office or one of their reseller
  >stores will work on the Sprint System.
CH> A bit illegal if they are not going to allow other equipment; don't you
CH> think?  Or is there a valid reason for the restriction?  Do you work
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There are two carriers in this market.  Sprint and Primeco.  They each
sell the same phone (Sony/Qualcom) at this time, and they each will
only work on their own system.  They each have their own towers,
xmitters, switiching offices, and Sprint's case it's own nationwide
digital fiber-optic longdistance cable network.
The PCS service's CDMA tech. digital encryption codes not only keep
others from making longdistance calls on your bill, but limit access
to each system to only authorised (their own) phones.  Although the
cell companies can now breathe a sigh of relief, maybe, due to
'signal fingerprinting' and 'authentication', there was enough fraud
in the past to cause the PCS industry to tighten security every way
they can.
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