heiby@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com (Ron Heiby) (05/09/91)
Pat, in your article about "Roaming Through the Midwest", you said, "I kept entering *18 on the Ameritech phone each time we would enter a new service area, ..." How did you know that you had entered a new service area? Do you use a map? Does your phone display the ID number of the service being used? Did you just note when you lost service and picked it up again? If the last, what about areas like going North out of Chicago (which you didn't do on your trip, I know), where the service area for Chicago and for Milwaukee overlap? Since I have my home service in Chicago, its easy to see the home-service (green) light switch to the "Roam" light. But, someone already roaming in Chicago wouldn't have that clue. Ron Heiby, heiby@chg.mcd.mot.com Moderator: comp.newprod [Moderator's Note: My phones do not display the system ID. I just keep noting them changing from 'rom' to 'no service' and back to 'roam' again. Each time I saw us going into a new area, I would use *18 to move the follow-me system to wherever I was at, and at the same time to cancel it out in the previous territory. Going north from Chicago, a wise idea would be to do *18 when you enter Wisconsin. PAT]