I used a lot of analog minutes on my StarTAC back in the day. I remember getting a deal from the place I worked of 15 cents a min.... which beat out a lot of my friends that were still at 60 cents a min (and that was not a roaming rate, which could sometimes be $3.00 a day plus $1.25 a min.)
Still have an active phone that supports analog (it's CDMA with an analog option for roaming). Last time we used it on analog was almost 3 years ago when we were near Moab, UT and got to a place that didn't have digital coverage, but analog worked (and drained the battery pretty quick).
Hope some of the remote places have digital coverage as I am sure there are tens of thousands of cell users that still rely on analog for their phone use.
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I used a lot of analog minutes on my StarTAC back in the day. I remember getting a deal from the place I worked of 15 cents a min.... which beat out a lot of my friends that were still at 60 cents a min (and that was not a roaming rate, which could sometimes be $3.00 a day plus $1.25 a min.)
Still have an active phone that supports analog (it's CDMA with an analog option for roaming). Last time we used it on analog was almost 3 years ago when we were near Moab, UT and got to a place that didn't have digital coverage, but analog worked (and drained the battery pretty quick).
Hope some of the remote places have digital coverage as I am sure there are tens of thousands of cell users that still rely on analog for their phone use.
2nd that digital expansion comment.
My town is all analogue verizon.