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- I can't say that I much miss connectivity when we are camping. But on the other hand I don't begrudge other people from having it. And my wife is usually taking a college class and needs access for that reason. I doubt that this will cost the park service anything, the cell phone companies are probably willing to put up a tower.
- We don't need no METAL TREES. Enjoy the park for what it has to offer. Parenting has gone astray and the Electronic craze is way over board as a baby sitter, or kid sitter.
Now enjoy what Mother Nature has to offer. - If the towers were done tastefully I see no problem with it.
Going to Yellowstone is something that I would love to do but is not very feasible due to amount of time it would take away from work just to drive there, and back. It would be hard pressed to have enough vacation days to spend at the park.
But with my job I can work remotely, so if there was good enough internet on the cell phone I could use vacation time to drive there, and still get my work done during the day while my family gets to enjoy the park. (and at 1 pm I get to go enjoy it too). - The NPS is already badly short of funds for routine maintenance of roads, drainage, guardrails, CAMPGROUNDS, etc. To use any of that money to improve services which are not truly essential to visiting the parks seems sad.
Make ALL of the backlogged repairs (including the segments of roads that were melted by geothermal heat last Fall) first. Then if there is any money left over work on 4G. - Whatever happened to taking pictures with a compact digital camera, off-loading them onto a laptop "sometime later", and then attaching them (with a downsized pixel count for fast transmission) to an email that can be sent over a slow Internet connection?
We do this all the time when traveling. Sometimes we even make the pictures prettier or a different size using Photoshop on our laptop before we email them from our RV over the Verizon 3G network. We have a cellular antenna on the RV roof and a battery powered cellular amplifier inside the RV so we can connect to Verizon 3G towers even places where our cell phones normally show only one or no bars ... like places in Yellowstone, or Western Utah, or the Oregon Outback.
(Boy, are we getting lazy in the U.S. ... or is it new-gadget-happy?) agesilaus wrote:
.............I doubt that this will cost the park service anything, the cell phone companies are probably willing to put up a tower.
From the linked article in the original post: "Louisiana-based CenturyLink has not submitted a formal application on the Yellowstone proposal, according to park officials and company spokeswoman Michelle Jackson. For the project to make economic sense in such a remote area, Jackson said, the company has asked for most costs to be covered by the Park Service and companies that would benefit from the line, including Verizon, Union Wireless and park concessionaires."
:):)Allworth wrote:
The NPS is already badly short of funds for routine maintenance of roads, drainage, guardrails, CAMPGROUNDS, etc. To use any of that money to improve services which are not truly essential to visiting the parks seems sad.
Make ALL of the backlogged repairs (including the segments of roads that were melted by geothermal heat last Fall) first. Then if there is any money left over work on 4G.
That's because the NPS wastes buckets of money on million dollar restrooms, conducting raids on Alaskan residents and assigning officers to give out dog tickets. Among a long list of other waste items like blocking off the Rushmore viewing area during the budget flap.NRALIFR wrote:
agesilaus wrote:
.............I doubt that this will cost the park service anything, the cell phone companies are probably willing to put up a tower.
From the linked article in the original post: "Louisiana-based CenturyLink has not submitted a formal application on the Yellowstone proposal, according to park officials and company spokeswoman Michelle Jackson. For the project to make economic sense in such a remote area, Jackson said, the company has asked for most costs to be covered by the Park Service and companies that would benefit from the line, including Verizon, Union Wireless and park concessionaires."
:):)
You forgot to include this from the article:
"Park officials said they have not agreed to provide any money."
:) :) :)pnichols wrote:
Whatever happened to taking pictures with a compact digital camera, off-loading them onto a laptop "sometime later", and then attaching them (with a downsized pixel count for fast transmission) to an email that can be sent over a slow Internet connection?
We do this all the time when traveling. Sometimes we even make the pictures prettier or a different size using Photoshop on our laptop before we email them from our RV over the Verizon 3G network. We have a cellular antenna on the RV roof and a battery powered cellular amplifier inside the RV so we can connect to Verizon 3G towers even places where our cell phones normally show only one or no bars ... like places in Yellowstone, or Western Utah, or the Oregon Outback.
(Boy, are we getting lazy in the U.S. ... or is it new-gadget-happy?)
Same thing that happened to loading a roll of 35mm film into the camera, taking it to drug store to be developed and waiting a few days to get your prints back.- Do any of you think that the village area at Old Faithful is photogenic now?!
