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Telephone line
Topic Started: May 28 2014, 01:42 PM (121 Views)
Jon-Morris
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As we have very limited / non-existent mobile phone coverage at Melbury, will the committee consider having a landline payphone put in at the club. Not only for members safety as we may need the emergency services one day but also so that we can be contacted by family or so that we can contact the outside world.
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Martin

100% essential to have a phone line.

1. essential for contacting emergency services.
2. link it to the alarm system with an auto dialler either to ring the key holders or someone close by.
3. use it for a broadband connection.
4. use it to order take-a-ways.
5. provide a femto cell for mobiles

Does it have to be a pay-phone with all the deals on free evening and week-end calls is it really an issue to make it a pay phone which incurs additional line rental?
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Jon-Morris
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:D :D Take aways :D :D Thats gonna cost getting Pizza, kebabs, curry etc etc delivered Maybe the pub in Parkham could start a service. Agree that a phone is essential I suggested a pay phone to avoid any misuse. Your right though most of these tele communications companies do have some great deals available.
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Martin

What! Are you suggesting we will not be able to get take-aways delivered?
There's me thinking Bideford area was more cosmopolitan than Chulmleigh. At least our local pub does take-aways.
Better get the kitchen equipment list higher up on the priorities.
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curlyshavings

I agree we need a phone-line fr all the above reasons (though I'm not a great fan of takeaways myself, I'm sure many members are). I think that having a mobile phone cell antenna on the site somewhere would be a brilliant idea too - giving us some extra income (even 20 years ago, my school was receiving about £1600 p.a. from Vodafone for being allowed to put their antennas on our roof). Given the rather remote location of melbury, we could well have competition between providers to get their coverage improved by this. Go to the top of the class, Martin! :)
Edited by curlyshavings, Jun 8 2014, 01:20 PM.
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Jon-Morris
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Adie has looked into getting an antena from a mobile phone provider, none of them were interested :blink:
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Martin

I have had some involvement with GSM networks and spent a few years involved with BT Mobile (later cellnet) as it was then at Petersfield. I worked with some loverly BT people as we tried to improve coverage in rural areas for mobile pay phones on trains. The problem was and still is that there has to be sufficient revenue generated through the base station to justify the expense of its installation. It all comes down to how many mobiles will be working through the base and how many calls will be terminated (that is answered by a mobile through that base) which generates the money.
A femto cell is a local low powered base connected via broadband. Look up Vodafone Sure Signal (one of payment). With one of these a set number of mobiles belonging to the network can connect through the cell. Thus someone working out and about could carry a mobile connected through the cell and remain contactable. The club could have one or two pay-as-you-go or contract units for occasions where someone is working around the site. Of course distance and obstacles can affect the range.
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DerPiles

Sorry Martin i was with you all the way up Pay-as-you go or contract. You can get signal booster that amplify the signal in the area, and there is a signal on site in certain positions. Or linked the broadband we can provide a broadcast antenna. i can find out more, as i know a man that has one fitted to his house last month. Both methods are free after the purchase of equipment.
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Jon-Morris
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I dunno anything about all this sort of thing.
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