Re: Telephone conversations in combat
I don't beleve that you were being mean. The basic question here is: how well respected are your PCs? If they are well respected then they are treated better than the average joe on the street. At no time though they should ever expect to get an instant response from any agency, especially one that would get an overwelming level of calls such as UNTIL would. The die roll is only ment as a guide, never as a hard and fast rule, so it can be modified as necessary. And remember, just because someone has a phone (even a mobile one) does not mean that they will always carry it.
The transfer of information occurs only as fast as a person can read it, regardless of how fast the tech can carry the info, so that is how fast the data should be determined to be transported at.