In the country I live we've got a couple of major providers, each of them having their own physical network. Each one of these networks has a coverage of at least 95%. I'm sure that's a situation stimulating healthy competition (assuming there's no price fixing). How's the situation in the US? Did the providers split the pie and charge whatever they like in their piece of it? Or do you have at least a couple of providers to choose from. I can also imagine there being big differences between urban and rural areas concerning this.
I think you're raising an interesting issue. I have been wondering about this myself. My guess is that they will add the year to the name. e.g. Hurricane Gamma 05 or Gamma 2005 (but possible only when it happens for the second time).
If they start skipping letters, we'll eventually run out of them.
And quite probably, there is no 'rule' for this scenario. They will come up with something when it happens.
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In the country I live we've got a couple of major providers, each of them having their own physical network. Each one of these networks has a coverage of at least 95%. I'm sure that's a situation stimulating healthy competition (assuming there's no price fixing). How's the situation in the US? Did the providers split the pie and charge whatever they like in their piece of it? Or do you have at least a couple of providers to choose from. I can also imagine there being big differences between urban and rural areas concerning this.
I think you're raising an interesting issue. I have been wondering about this myself. My guess is that they will add the year to the name. e.g. Hurricane Gamma 05 or Gamma 2005 (but possible only when it happens for the second time). If they start skipping letters, we'll eventually run out of them. And quite probably, there is no 'rule' for this scenario. They will come up with something when it happens.