Cell Phone Service along Alaska Highway
It appears Cell service may be available along the highway by next year. News Release
Forum Discussion
One of the real nice things about cell phones, while traveling, is that they can become, one directional devices. Especially while we are in Canada, due to the roaming and LD charges, we incur while using our AT&T phones over their roaming partner company, Rogers communications. If I need to use the phone and feel it is worth the cost, I true it on, use it and then turn it off. Also keep all data roaming turned off, while out of the US and anything else on the phone that is using data/time, without checking with me first. Guess that is what makes it a smart phone. LOL
WiFi is just not that hard to find and use in the north country. Our daughters know we check emails every couple of days, and if they need a call, they send an email and we will find a pay phone, use a prepaid card and call them. The few remaining consulting clients I have, also understand to send me an email, if I don't get back to a text message in a couple of hours to them. I can't remember having to go over 48 hours between being able to find a good internet connection. The Canadian government is to be commended, for being a leader, in putting in the needed infrastructure, to allow even the smallest of communities to have good communications through the Internet.
A lot of it is just what we get used to having at our disposal. While I made 9 round trips over the Alaska Hwy by RV before I owned my first cell phone, I would sure miss not having one these days. think I would develop with drawl symptoms if my phone wasn't close. I find it is as good as hold a TV remote, at times. LOL
Like others have said, the cell phones and other electronic gadgets have sure changed our lives in the last decade. The other night I had been working in my home office and walked into the living room where my wife, oldest daughter and her two sons were watching a Christmas movie. All 4 of them were on their iPads, doing the multitasking bit. Tablets and TV, just struck me, that it is what my grandsons, 10 and 11, consider to be normal. They have never known anything else as most of us geezers have lived through. While I miss the verbal conversations, it is nothing that any of us are going to be able to change in our society, like it or not.
WiFi is just not that hard to find and use in the north country. Our daughters know we check emails every couple of days, and if they need a call, they send an email and we will find a pay phone, use a prepaid card and call them. The few remaining consulting clients I have, also understand to send me an email, if I don't get back to a text message in a couple of hours to them. I can't remember having to go over 48 hours between being able to find a good internet connection. The Canadian government is to be commended, for being a leader, in putting in the needed infrastructure, to allow even the smallest of communities to have good communications through the Internet.
A lot of it is just what we get used to having at our disposal. While I made 9 round trips over the Alaska Hwy by RV before I owned my first cell phone, I would sure miss not having one these days. think I would develop with drawl symptoms if my phone wasn't close. I find it is as good as hold a TV remote, at times. LOL
Like others have said, the cell phones and other electronic gadgets have sure changed our lives in the last decade. The other night I had been working in my home office and walked into the living room where my wife, oldest daughter and her two sons were watching a Christmas movie. All 4 of them were on their iPads, doing the multitasking bit. Tablets and TV, just struck me, that it is what my grandsons, 10 and 11, consider to be normal. They have never known anything else as most of us geezers have lived through. While I miss the verbal conversations, it is nothing that any of us are going to be able to change in our society, like it or not.
