[V8] V8 Digest, Vol 50, Issue 16

[Roger Woodbury]

Message: 9
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:30:53 -0500
From: Brett Dikeman <brett at cloud9.net>
Subject: [V8] reminder: factory phones will be useless post Feb 2008
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For those of you that haven't heard, and use your (analog) factory  
phones, if only for making emergency calls...analog cell phone service  
in the US will be harder and harder to find after February 2008.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iiczkwxq1jK5IKXGCsNQkWgOHmQAD8TM1PKG0

It's worth noting that the FCC is "letting" carriers do this after Feb  
18th- not sure how hot-to-trot the various carriers will be.  No doubt  
some will jump at the chance to get customers to drop $$ on new plans  
and handsets...

Does anyone know what newer Audi models use the old analog On-Star  
based system, and if they can be updated as claimed in the article? I  
think this would make a good wiki article, but I have no clue on  
either front.

Brett


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And if any salesman ever tries to sell me an Audi with a friggin' "On Star"
system in it, or ANY car for that matter, I'll first take a baseball bat and
wail on the "On Star" boxes, and then on the salesman.

I don't need to friggin' cell phone or satellite system telling the black
helicopters where my Audi is every minute of the friggin' day!

Thank you very much.  I feel MUCH better now.

Roger
 

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