| edavid3001@gmail.com 2006-04-22, 5:48 pm |
| Agreed. I did state I also tried the phones out. I made calls, or
attempted to. I didn't just look at the bars. 0 bars *AND* not being
able to talk on one phone with one carrier, while getting bars on the
Cingular phone *AND* being able to talk just fine at the exact same
place at the same time does mean something, however.
>From what I gather, CDMA w/ AMPS & roaming (Alltel, Sprint, and Verizon
though not available here) in this area often means one has to go
outside to make a call and you get dropped calls but you get coverage
in areas where GSM (Cingular, T-Mobile ) or iDen (Nextel) do not have
coverage. Such as the middle of no-where. GSM has better voice CODECs
except for in noisy situations where CDMA is better. GSM handles
switching from tower to tower better than CDMA. CDMA is more frequency
efficient. bla bla.
Anyway, I'm not going with a CDMA technology because from discussing
with the people that have it through various carriers (mother in law,
brother in law, sister in law, step father, mother, sister, brother,
friends) experience of indoor use is not good where I live or at work
or in their homes. Cingulars GSM coverage is getting better all the
time. 2 1/2 years ago it was bad. Now it is decent.
So I got Cingular and T-Mobile which has an agreement to roam onto
Cingular's 850Mhz towers. Apparently not all towers, but along major
routes. iDen is probably a dead technology. Nextel seems to be
migrating to CDMA as a business plan. iDen coverage is not good in my
area. Apparently the CODEC for voice isn't that great, but I don't
know first hand.
Anyway, I want to thank everyone who replied. I never expect this big
of a response to my post. I appriciate everyones information. I now
know more about cell phones than my wife cares me to know. She says
"just pick one!"
Good day;
Edwin
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