This was in today's Globe & Mail for those of you
thinking of doing the Quebec, Labrador, Newfoundland
Nova Scotia road loop.  Enjoy,  Malcolm :

Drivers can borrow Newfoundland phones

Friday, January 24, 2003 � Print Edition, Page A8

St. John's -- The Newfoundland and Labrador
government will lend satellite telephones to motorists
who plan to drive the isolated Trans-Labrador Highway.

The 500-kilometre highway is little more than a two-lane
gravel road with only one community, Churchill Falls,
about midway and no cellphone service. The
government said Wednesday that a pilot project will
begin within a few months, allowing motorists to pick up
the phones from the police for a fee before heading out.