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Posted by Steven Lichter on September 5, 2008, 12:29 am
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Dave Garland wrote:
> It was a dark and stormy night when Steven Lichter
>
>> That would have been an MTS unit, they were made by GE or Motorola,
>> later when dials were added the were IMTS phone. The IMTS you could
>> dial out like a regular phone and had dial tone. The olde MTS units you
>> reached an operator. One of the GTE vehicles that I drove had one and
>> it was very interesting since phone were very rare; just doctors and
>> attorneys had them, maybe a few movie stars.
>
> And, during the winter of '70, my biker landlord, who had a starter
> generator in the back of his pickup and used the phone to take orders
> for his car-starting business (which was quite brisk in the early hours
> of a -20F workday Minnesota morning). On busy days I'd take calls in
> his kitchen and batch them and relay the jobs to him, on slower days
> he'd just take calls in the cab. I don't remember what caused calls to
> go one place or the other, I don't think call forwarding was available
> in those days. It may have been he advertised both numbers, and just
> didn't answer the car phone when I was dispatching.
>
> As soon as weather turned warmer and the car phone no longer paid for
> itself, he had it removed.
>
> Dave
>
I was talking to a friend who I worked with before I retired from GTE,
he is still there with Verizon; I was talking to him about the posts I
had seen about MTS phone and I remembered that the company had activated
its IMTS towers and transmitters in Hemet, Calif in the late 90's
because the cell phones that we used in company vehicles had major dead
spots, he told me that they just removed them last year after a bunch of
micro sites had been installed in the mountains around there. He said
that the 4 phones are in boxes in the CO. I asked him to see if he
could get his hands on them, might be nice to have in my collection of
telephone gear.
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