FREE - old Motorola analog cellular flip-phone (new-in-box)

Ken D'Ambrosio ken at jots.org
Wed Jul 13 11:12:37 EDT 2011


>> It has a Cellular One sticker on it.  No idea if it works - I'm
>> not sure it's ever even been on.  It probably does not run Linux.
>>
> Are the analog nets [s]till up even?

I'm 95% sure that's a "No."  I seem to recall the plug got pulled some two
or three years ago.  Ah, here we go: "As of February 18, 2008, carriers in
the United States were no longer required to support AMPS and companies
such as AT&T and Verizon have discontinued this service permanently."
 -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Mobile_Phone_System






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