3G Phones Exposing Networks’ Last-Gen Technology
lol! I LOVE THE CHART on the left. It shows Atlanta, AT&T's corp home, and Verizon out rates them.
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Ooooh, but it quotes CR! People on this site love to bash Consumer Reports and their results, too. I don't know why. Oh, yes I do - because "they" (the respondents to the surveys) consistently rate Verizon at the top year after year after year in service, customer satisfation, yada yada yada. Being that it's non-profit, and takes no contributions or advertisements, it must be a farce. I forgot...
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3G Phones Exposing Networks’ Last-Gen Technology
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Published: March 13, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO — Oh, the things modern mobile phones can do. They are music-playing, video-taking, direction-providing multimedia powerhouses. But many people have trouble getting them to perform their most basic functions, like making phone calls.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Oh, the things modern mobile phones can do. They are music-playing, video-taking, direction-providing multimedia powerhouses. But many people have trouble getting them to perform their most basic functions, like making phone calls.
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Thank you for posting the article...
I love how you can lose 30% of your text messages, have frequent dropped calls and still call a phone "great."
And when the storm launched it was.... slow?
I need to make a computer that is really cool looking, but the software randomly erases 10% of your data and it uses wifi to do everything, but the wifi only works with perfect signal... I'd make a killing.
I love how you can lose 30% of your text messages, have frequent dropped calls and still call a phone "great."
And when the storm launched it was.... slow?
I need to make a computer that is really cool looking, but the software randomly erases 10% of your data and it uses wifi to do everything, but the wifi only works with perfect signal... I'd make a killing.
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j/k
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Cellphonejocky said:...
Take, for instance, the difference in the way voice and data traffic is carried on the two networks. On AT&T’s 2G network, cellphone towers — even ones in close proximity to one another — use different chunks of the radio spectrum to carry information. As phone users move around on foot or in a car, their phones switch from one frequency to another.
On the 3G network, all of the cell towers use the same frequency to transmit information. On its face, this would seem to make things simpler. But this technology also adds a wrinkle: when phones get too close to too many 3G towers using the same frequency, they can become overwhelmed with radio noise.
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I'll take it over GSM any day. I would have to have a gun to my head to switch to AT&T.
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I'm not going to go that far. If someone else pays the bill I'll use GSM. I did when I sold for AT&T... Of course, I continued to pay my Alltel bill, LOL. I knew I wouldn't work there forever and I wanted to have a reliable phone once I quit.
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I'm glad to here I'm not the only one!! I work for at&t, but trust my Alltel! I just hope VZN is as good. I know that they are almost the same, but i've been in places that were VZN home networks, and Alltell still got better signal, and no dropped calls.
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