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Author Re: Thinking of Sprint
Notan

2006-04-22, 5:48 am

edavid3001@gmail.com wrote:
>
> What better way to test a service provider than test them out live.
>
> I grabbed one of these CDMA Digital phone with Analog AMPs roaming
> abilitys. I took it where I spend most of my time.
>
> It doesn't work. The coverage is not there. I get 0 to 1 bars and I
> can here the person on the other line, but they cannot here me. They
> just get static when I talk. (I called my land line to test.)
>
> The Cingular phone gets 3-5 bars and works just fine.
>
> <snip>


For the umpteenth time,

One should never look at the number of "bars" as any indication of
signal strength. They're put there by the manufacturer of the phone.
One manufacturer might decide that a weak signal deserves one bar,
while the next thinks two would be more appropriate. Etc., etc. Not
only is there no standard between manufacturers, there's not even a
standard between phones from the *same* manufacturer.

Notan
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