<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=175379.msg8334623#msg8334623">Quote from: kckolbe on 03-06-2013, 17:00:24</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">So each phone is only good for one planet?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>No, the Core planets and some of the more sophisticated border planets are all interchangable - businessmen from Ariel can use their phones on Bellerophon regardless of whether they have AT&T or Sprint.  There's no service on Whitefall, though.<br/><br/>Rance's set-up was different.  It was a private system.  It required a technician to program the proper codes into the phones to work there.<br/><br/>That's why little portable radios are more popular outside the Core... they're just less convenient because you can't "place a call" .. the person you want to talk to has to be standing by on the same frequency expecting to be called.<br/>