T-Mobile to Do Away with Employer Rate Plan Discounts
While I dont criticize them for it...
I'm all for this change if they actually get rid of EDGE/GPRS areas, that's my only qualm with T-Mobile is when i go home to Ohio, i'm stuck with the dreaded G (full service, just useless for anything data related on GPRS)
Now if they'd also transmit HSPA on PCS at the same power level as EDGE, but that's another discussion altogether.
Do you even know who this stuff works, or are you making shi* up as you go along? ๐
And its laughable as this doenst even pertain to COR discounts, its EQUIPMENT. Not ONE commeneter here got it right. But, hey its the age of no one reads and makes shi* up as they go along. ๐คจ
T-Mobile does leave the power turned down on HSPA compared to EDGE for capacity reasons, and that's why you can go somewhere that has perfectly full EDGE signal on PCS, but the PCS HSPA coming from the same site (same antenna rack too) will be ~15dBm weaker causing the phone to hang onto EDGE instead of HSPA.
I see this around Phoenix, SoCal, and the Midwest all the time, that's my only complaint about T-Mobile, and i've had them since 2006
brad162 said:
T-Mobile does leave the power turned down on HSPA compared to EDGE for capacity reasons, and that's why you can go somewhere that has perfectly full EDGE signal on PCS, but the PCS HSPA coming from the same site (same antenna rack too) will be ~15dBm weaker causing the phone to hang onto EDGE instead of HSPA.
The discrepancy you are seeing is not a result of different broadcast power rather greater utilization of the HSPA signal. What I mean by this is the more phones on a bandwidth the less broad cast power available. An easy way to look at this is a tower is a big glass of signal each time some one is connected to it they drill a new hole in the glass. One hole the water(signal in this case...
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The power does not magically "disappear" because more phones are on the control channel, once the site reaches it's limit it just rejects new connections and that's where the "network busy" error messages come into play, now on a TDMA based system like EDGE/GPRS your argument is somewhat valid but not on a CDMA or HSPA based system.
I have even experienced this T-Mobile "phenomenon" on more than one occasion (and even at 4AM in a part of "town" that's so rural that there's nobody else on the channel and i c...
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The more antenna's pulling in the radio wave the greater the dissipation of the carrier wave. IE more phone receiving signal from a given tower the shorter the range of the tower. Or to put this in measurable terms the weaker the dB at any given range then a less utilized carrier wave such as edge which is only used for data. where as HSDPA (a ...
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I don't buy that at all. It's like saying it gets dark in the movie theater because everyone opens their eyes and absorb the light.
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