Re: Tired of AT&T / Cingular Wireless?

John Navas <spamfilter1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> amazed us all with the following
in news:r3e1r316r726rcdsdo6r0b66crolcbmjel@xxxxxxx:

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:06:14 -0800, SMS <scharf.steven@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in <47b0b81a$0$36375$742ec2ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Jar-Jar Binks wrote:
CDMA required less cell sites to cover the same area and for this
reason CDMA is superior.

This is correct.

Actually incorrect. Real world range is roughly the same for CDMA2000
and GSM.

I've been to many rural places
where there is CDMA coverage but no GSM coverage.

I've likewise been to many rural places where there is GSM coverage
but no CDMA2000 coverage.


This occurs for two
reasons.

This occurs for one reason: all carriers have coverage holes.

Second, in urban areas, such as the San Francisco Bay Area, there are
a great many parks and open space areas where there are no cells at
all allowed. Any coverage comes from cells on the periphery of these
areas, and a CDMA site will reach further than GSM site in the same
location.

Simply not true, given a reasonably current handset. You're probably
still using an ancient handset.

There have been proposals by GSM carriers to deploy "extended range
GSM" but it hasn't been used in the U.S. yet.

Proof? But as usual, there are zero links in your post -- you just
make up whatever you need to fit your agenda.


Civility, John? You can't expect anybody else to exhibit it towards you if
you can't practice it yourself.
.

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