pnichols wrote:
Dutch_12078 wrote:
I was in a cell dead area (all carriers) of the Adirondacks, but I was still able to make and receive calls using a Google Voice app and a WiFi hotspot at a coffee shop.
Hmmmm ... that is a necessary situation for most rural businesses. It means that the coffee shop most have had one of three things: 1) Cable service for Internet access, or 2) satellite service for Internet access, or 3) cell tower connectivity for Internet access via a cellular band antenna somewhere on the building feeding a cellular band amplifier somwhere inside the building so that, even though you couldn't connect to cell towers, the coffee shop could.
The coffee shop would have also needed setup 1), 2), or 3) in order to have accepted credit/debit cards from it's customers.
You missed one... The coffee shop has DSL service from Frontier Communications, the local landline phone company.
