This is from burner John Gilmore:
“Ever lose your friends in a dust storm? Get separated while on an arttour in the middle of the night? Missed finding your homies or your old flame all week, even though you know they’re at Burning Man somewhere? This year, text them!
The Papa Legba theme camp is offering free on-playa text messaging services to BM participants, using your own phone. It may even be possible to make short voice calls. Not all phones use the same technology we do (GSM-850), but US AT&T and T-Mobile phones work. Don’t forget your car charger. On the playa, respond to the “welcome” text message to get service. Try it out in your camp first — before you’re disconnected, dusty, and lost.
FAQ with details: http://pagalegba2010.wikispaces.com/FAQ
David Page
David is the Founding Editor of BETA, Matador's new print magazine. His guidebook to Yosemite, the Southern Sierra Nevada and Death Valley earned him a 2009 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award, and was named "Best Guidebook of 2008" by the Outdoor Writers Association of California. He has written for the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Men's Journal and The New York Times. He lives on the edge of one of the largest calderas on earth, in Mammoth Lakes, California, with his wife, his two boys, and an illegal migrant canine avatar of the Aztec god Xolotl.
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