On 19-Mar-12 13:20, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 12:37:05 on Mon, 19 Mar
2012, Stephen Sprunk remarked:
your entire country is smaller than some of our "service areas".
Remember that the US has roughly twice the area of the entire EU, so
our "domestic" is your "international".

I thought you said that the USA didn't have service areas any more, just
national coverage thanks to the domestic roaming agreements.

We were discussing 1G service, which no longer exists.

So the bit about "our domestic is your international" should have been
in the past tense (backdated to 1G)?

It was poorly phrased. The scope of your "domestic" service is similar
to the scope of our 1G "service areas"; our "domestic" service covers an
area twice the size of the EU, i.e. what would be "international" in a
European context.

If you prefer something more concrete, consider the UK has a land area
of 243,610 km^2--slightly smaller than Oregon, our 9th-largest state,
and 1/37th that of the entire US.

"Service areas"
mostly went away with 2G service and free domestic roaming; the only
obvious remainder is they determine which area code your number is from.

Think of this in terms of having free pan-EU roaming vs. your current
national service, with your service location only determining which
country code your number is from.

S

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