FCC Grants GSM Hearing Aid Extension
Why 850?
Why did Cingular choose 850 as their band? All the nice phones such as the ones based out of Europe use the 900/1800/1900 bands. I think Cingular really messed up on this one.
Oh lord here we go again. Cingular didn't have a choice. There was no spectrum available. Plus their TDMA network was already 850 anyway so they just implented GSM on there. Same goes for AT&T. They were using both 850/1900. In some areas both only ha...
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They didn't choose 850. It's what the government made available.
The government also made 1900 available, but there are a limited number of licenses available in each band, for each area of the country. Nearly every license is owned by somebody, so...
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The government also made 1900 available, but there are a limited number of licenses available in each band, for each area of the country. Nearly every license is owned by somebody, so...
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