On 25 Mar 97 04:07pm, Carl Owens wrote to Scott Currier:
>>Let's hear about that dispatch feature, I haven't heard or read anything
>>about it yet.
 CO> The dispatch feature is simply using the unit much as you would a two
 CO> way radio. You can talk to the whole group of people in your crew or you
 CO> can talk to only one person in the group. You are allowed to talk for
 CO> 250 minutes per month. The minutes are billed to the nearest second.
 CO> After you have used up the 250 minutes per unit you pay ten cents for
 CO> each additional minute you use. The time is bill to whichever unit
 CO> starts the conversation. If there is a six second lag in the
 CO> conversation the next radio which talks is billed. Each unit in the
 CO> group is allowed 250 minutes. If you and your wife have these units, you
 CO> each get 250 minutes of talk time per month. You are only billed for the
 CO> amount of transmit time per unit. The time between transmissions is
 CO> yours. If you keep the transmissions short, you can get more out of your
 CO> time.
 CO> These units were the ones used at the Olympics in Atlanta.
>>I would test the system before committing too much money to it. I called
>>Nextel again today, they had sent me out info before but didn't include a
>>coverage area map.
This is the iden unit called "Mike" in Ontario and Quebec. ClearNet and
motorola launched this product October / 96. It works great and is cheaper
than the two other major cell companies here. Nextel is their U.S. partner
so the coverage will spread soon to most of North America some day. Imagine
a 2-way radio network from L.A. to Quebec city at 15 cents per minute billed
by the second! The handset is also a full function advanced cell phone,
alpha-numeric pager, and can recieve fax with the advanced voice mail.
I am a dealer in Ontario especially around Toronto if anyone wants to get
more info. b.f.n. Brian.
BRIAN LEO
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