Okay, that does it.

There's an old edition of Blacklisted 411, published sometime when Verizon was first starting out (AFAIK) from the U.K -- circa 1995. In that edition, two full pages of the 'zine (those pages equating, nearly, to one 8.5x11" page), printed in small, small type, there was a list of DNS domains that Verizon had purchased — one of which was "verizonsucks.com" — apparently in an effort at squelching route for criticism, before they hit "the big US market". There must have been a few hundred on the list.

It appeared as ironic, and bore an ominous tone.

"Comparatively", the CEO of Verizon has been cheered by so-and-so, on the company's fiscal success. Their marketing may be successful; that much, I can guess.

I don't have a cel. If I'd get one, I had thought I'd use Cingular. Yet, If they are so sticking their fingers in their ears, about Linux, that is unfortunate. Not only does it occasion a systematic dead-lock, with 'em, but it seems contrary to the the manner in which they try to present of their company, in marketing efforts produced of Cingular.

I'd like to think that someone at Cingular would lend an ear about Linux. I cannot guess who it would be, or how a word of such would reach whom.

(I presume that we do not need a PAC or a Supreme Court ruling, to get companies to stop being ignorant about Linux. I wonder, though, if something does not need to be done of it. Something is being donen of it -- a lot of something, and in discourse of it, here and O'Reilly publications and furthermore. Maybe they're not getting word of it, "in the board-room".)

Then, but regardless of corporate style, there's the technology. Regarding cell phones, it is some new stuff, to me; it's good to get to know some of what's there.

Upon your story, and with a grounding on some discourse at wikipeda, EV-DO sounds like it may be the best thing, in comparison to EDGE. EV-DO has a more expansive page at Wikipedia, also.

Wikipedia has it listed, there, that EV-DO is supported on some Razr-model phones. Given the marketing that has been done about such, lately, I'd guess that it wouldn't be tough to come by a Razr phone — like, say, at a Sprint sales center.

There's a lot that can be done with connectivity, such that I wonder if most folks are quite aware of. So-much technology is produced; the developers of it go about with their work; the marketers don't even try to bring up detail of it, in the marketing; the people might or might not be aware of what is produced, and of what they use -- save for what gets passed through the foggy filter of marketing magazines, viz. CMP's lot -- knowing or not, then, about what would actually be relevant to 'em, regarding the systems they use, daily.

Of what's feasible, already, and not been done, I've been concerned about how much of it will be noticed by people more moderate than partsianally 'democrat' — viz. DKOS, in what number of active writers to the site — people keeping democracy going, I mean, and people reasonable, and active and willing to be involved about concerns becoming contingent to government, "where the policy starts, to us."

Democracy, I find, one can give a darn about.

Linux, either.

Cel phones, those wireless communication things operating over the public teephone network, though I've not been much familiar with the technologies used of such, but it's good to know what's there, behind the paint-ups of marketing.

You should have gone with Sprint, we use them for applications that push huge amounts of data and have had no problems.

Verizon has also sent out letters to all of their dealers saying that if anyone uses 5-10 gigs they will shut them down.

After all "it's the network" can you here me now?