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 Originally Posted by helpermonkey
Here is something that might matter - Coverage. Why does no one think that their local coverage is important? All carriers are not equal in all markets. Everyone always acts like just becuase they have good coverage in their house or office, that that carrier has good coverage in everyone's home or office? GSM has the largest share of the world market by far, that means more *(hopefully better / cooler) mobiles, SIM - changing phones WITh your phone book included is a snap, Cingular is the largest US carrier with the most coverage nationwide. Those are just a few examples.
Sorry I am just tired of people passing off poor info as fact. CDMA might be better where you describe in your area, but don't assume it everywhere else. Also are you talking about analog roaming on your Sprint phone? Of highway coverage is great in many areas on GSM - maybe just not where you live. All major areas should be covered by GSM.
This info is not correct either. GSM, TDMA, Analog, CDMA - none of these technologies has some sort of special in building coverage advantage. In building penatration is effected most by spectrum 850Mhz can go through walls and matterial like that better than 1900Mhz can, it's a fact. Power setting on the local cell sites also effect building coverage etc...
I have seen this said before, and I am not sure if it is true, but it is probably close anyway. Honestly though, who cares if there is more CDMA in this country? If so, it can't be by much, it isn't as if there is a HUGE difference. There is more GSM coverage on Cingular though, than any other carrier in the US. Whatever, just wanted to make that point too.
scaredpoet - care to explain to us what in that link leads you to believe CDMA has less of a capacity crunch? Different technologies are used differently, so a CDMA network is not even designed the same way a GSM network is. Capacity is part of the system design and any well designed system has enough capacity, simple as that. Also I would like to point out that page you link to is only talking about 850Mhz cellular and makes no mention of PCS at all. Nor does it mention the actual use of the technologies, simple channel, channel size, number of users per freq. (which on GSM also looked to be wrong - 24? Where did that number come from? Anyone? I only know of a max of 8 -16 per channel), etc.
Man, Monkey! Do you have a stake in how well GSM performs? You just seem to have gotten awfully agitated. In many ways you are right. It is a matter of personal preference, and what works best for what you need. So personally, you can take your GSM and shove it! I think it's the SHI##IEST technology on the planet. Having said that, everything has pros and cons. I'd love to have the option to "swap" my sim into a smaller phone sometimes, but that's about it. I realize once the GSM/CDMA war is upon us (I was actually enjoying it's abscence until I realized the GSM unit hadn't come out yet. For a few weeks I thought we'd all done a lot of growing up since the 600.) there is no stopping it, but there's no winning it either. Some people are die hard one way (appears you are for GSM) and some people are die hard another (I KNOW I am for CDMA, Sprint specifically.) and some people don't know the difference and wouldn't care if they did.
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