JZ>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.
JZ>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.
Explains why they want to require their own phones; but doesn't change 
the fact that they may be in violation of federal law.
Charles
 * 1st 2.00 ~ Dijon Vu: The feeling you've tasted this mustard before
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