Nextel Agrees to Spectrum Move
Hmmmm.......
Looking at the full story link, and the more info link as well a couple of things pop to mind.....
1st, they say customers will notice no difference in service, yet the spectrum is shifting from 800 to 1900. If my physics lessons serve me right I believe that means that signal will not travel as well and thus be worse. Especially in mountainous terrain...
2nd, they credit Nextel as building the largest garunteed all digital network in the US. I'm a little foggy on what they are getting at here, I was under the impression that Cingular now has the largest network, but before that Verizon did. Are we playing with words here? Or are they speaking of the Radio capabilities of Nextel?
1st, they say customers will notice no difference in service, yet the spectrum is shifting from 800 to 1900. If my physics lessons serve me right I believe that means that signal will not travel as well and thus be worse. Especially in mountainous terrain...
2nd, they credit Nextel as building the largest garunteed all digital network in the US. I'm a little foggy on what they are getting at here, I was under the impression that Cingular now has the largest network, but before that Verizon did. Are we playing with words here? Or are they speaking of the Radio capabilities of Nextel?
Well NEXTEL is probably the largest Digital Network built from the ground up in the United States now. Since Verizon went through all the mergers. Cingular went through some mergers and so too did AWS. I am not sure on sprint but didn't they buy ou...
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1. "1st, they say customers will notice no difference in service, yet the spectrum is shifting from 800 to 1900. If my physics lessons serve me right I believe that means that signal will not travel as well and thus be worse. Especially in mountainous...
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I find this amusing...
They say Nextel agreed to move spectrums like the FCC gave them some sort of choice 🤣
move or be moved 😈 😈
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HeroPsychoDreamer said:They got 10mhz of pristine 1.9mhz spectrum for a song and a dance. Believe me...they were well compensat...
They say Nextel agreed to move spectrums like the FCC gave them some sort of choice 🤣
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