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.
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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 had 850. Besides 850 penetrates better anyway plus most of those so called "nice" 900/1800/1900 phones dont even have EDGE.
Cingular has quite a nice selection of phones if you ask me. Especially compared to T-Mobile who has nothing but Samsucks and garbage Motorola's. Cingular has the SE 710a and Nokia 6682. What more do you want?
Cingular has quite a nice selection of phones if you ask me. Especially compared to T-Mobile who has nothing but Samsucks and garbage Motorola's. Cingular has the SE 710a and Nokia 6682. What more do you want?
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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 they can't just go get more spectrum (without buying a major competitor, like they did with AT&T).
Cingular has 1900 licenses in many parts of the country, but not all. Where they do have 1900, it's not enough to maintain their current networks and also launch 3G.
They need as much spectrum as they can get, and that includes the 850 spectrum they already own (and have owned for decades). Even if they didn't *need* 850, they have it, and it's worth many, many billions. They'd be insane to ...
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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 they can't just go get more spectrum (without buying a major competitor, like they did with AT&T).
Cingular has 1900 licenses in many parts of the country, but not all. Where they do have 1900, it's not enough to maintain their current networks and also launch 3G.
They need as much spectrum as they can get, and that includes the 850 spectrum they already own (and have owned for decades). Even if they didn't *need* 850, they have it, and it's worth many, many billions. They'd be insane to ...
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