On 14 Dec 96 11:37am, Brian Lingard wrote to Brian Leo:
 BL> Interesting service, Mike.
 BL> What area does it work in?
They lit up 200 towers on the same day... The coverage area is from Windsor,
to Orillia, east to Quebec City and toward Ottawa. Lots more coverage in
the spring of /97. 
 BL> As far as not being clonable don't count on it.  It might take a
 BL> couple of Pentiums and a lot of funny electronics, but just about
 BL> anything that uses radio waves could be cloned if someone really
 BL> worked at it.
It's secure enough for the U.S. Navy. And quite a few other services that
need secure communications. Motorola has sunk millions into this new
technology on the lower 800 mhz. bands and they aren't worried about cloning.
A "simple" scanner for this unit would cost 40 grand to start you off, but
it goes through over 30 steps of security to sign onto the network. It
takes almost 40 seconds to go on line. The number of combinations and the
 complexity of trying to clone one would not worth it.
 The transmission would be noticed right away and shut down.
 Their network knows when every unit is on or off and where it is in the
 network.
       Thanks for your replies. If you know of anyone who can use a
multi-functional product like "Mike" thanks for the referral. 
BRIAN LEO
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