randals (03/09/83)
Obviously, this discussion has already made its rounds once, but I
found a new piece of data yesterday that might spark some interesting
remarks.
According to the April issue of "Technology Illustrated" (page 64) in
an article titled "The New Mobile Telephones":
"The FCC has authorized 666 channels (for two-way communication)
in the UHF band for the new service [cellular telephones]."
The article later goes on to say that the Bell system is the largest
(although not the only one) of the companies getting into the act of
producing user-end equipment for this project.
Kinda gives a whole new slant on "the number of the beast". (Maybe you
can reach him [it?] by cellular telephone soon!)
Not afraid to use the "6" on my phone,
Randal L. Schwartz
Tektronix Engineering Computing Systems (the UNIX folks)
Wilsonville, Oregon, USA
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