Some people in Canada with a cottage on an island or who live in
a suburban area sign up for the evening/weekend plan and use a
cellular phone to get a big city calling area or get dial tone at
the cottage.
You can get beam antennas that will give you a lot of gain and
make communication more reliable if you are at the fringe of a
cell site's coverage area.
E.g. trying to phone across the lake as a local call from the
cottage.
Bag phones are usually analog and digital at the moment is a dead
issue.
Canadian cellular providers are going to cdma from tdma to
improve the digital network's sound quality.
While I lived in Toronto I knew a couple of bridges you could go
under talking to one person and come out talking to someone else,
often much more interesting.
In Ottawa here, I switched between my party and another one a
couple of times in one conversation and we had a great time.
... "What?!? This isn't the Files section?!?"
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