| Thomas T. Veldhouse 2006-05-18, 5:48 pm |
| In alt.cellular.sprintpcs SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
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> It's inherent in GSM technology to drop calls if the cell you're moving
> into has no more capacity. With CDMA, the quality will decrease as the
> compression increases. However, at least where I am, the GSM capacity
> issues have been solved for at least the last two years. There are still
> a lot of coverage issues with GSM in the San Francisco Bay Area, which
> is one reason why Cingular has always done so poorly in all the surveys.
> I have a Cingular phone on an MVNO, and it's useless in many parts of
> the Bay Area that are on the outskirts of cities.
>
CDMA compression doesn't change, the noise increases do to more phone chatter.
It is like walking into a room where there are 20 people talking at the same
time at the same volume. It can be hard to hear what the one person you are
talking to is saying. But, if you remove the other 19 people in the room, you
can hear just fine. Essentially, your choice is to talk louder (not allowed
to boost the power on CDMA phones beyond the required limit (what is it 0.2W?)
or you can move closer (effectively reducing the noise). With GSM ... there
are just 20 cups and 10 pieces of string and each call may use one or more
cups ... so if all the cups are in use at the same time, then the call can not
be initiated ... or if a site handoff is occurring, it may result in a dropped
call.
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> The bandwidth issue with GSM isn't as bad as it once was, due to CoDecs
> that do more compression (at the expense of voice quality).
That doesn't change the bandwidth at all, that changes the codec. You can use
the same codecs with CDMA you want.
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> They are not any more expensive than Cingular or Sprint for most plans.
> For me, not only was the base rate the lowest at the time, but there are
> many discounts. Also, I have 8:01 p.m. nights, which saves money on
> Intra-LATA calls, and that hour is a big help as I can call people back
> east at 11:00 p.m. but midnight is a bit late. Up until recently,
> Verizon also had holiday off-peak, they were the last carrier to drop
> holidays as off-peak hours.
Check out a previous post of mine on this matter. Most people I have talked
with agree that Verizon costs more, but most that are Verizon customers simply
tell me that "it is worth it". I for one have priced my required features and
Verizon comes up higher than ALL other carriers available to me. I still
intend to move with them at some point in the future if Sprint doesn't start
filling rural holes (meaning in-building coverage). My Verizon counter-part
in the small town I currently work gets coverage fine with Verizon but I am
always at one or zero bars ... requiring the antenna to make clear calls. My
previous employer, the problem was worse and I actually frequently missed
calls while my Verizon counterparts had full bars ... that was in a the large
Twin Cities suburb of Eden Prairie.
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