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Re: Verizon is best carrier for third year. In SF Bay Area, it's 1-Verizon, 2-T-Mobile, 3-Sprint, 4
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| John Navas 2005-12-08, 2:48 am |
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ec2ed@news.sonic.net> on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 10:17:28
-0800, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
>... I am
>also in Silicon Valley. I got the whole story about how AT&T and Verizon
>had been around much longer, and had had more time to install more cell
>sites than Cingular, and how they were working to improve coverage. Left
>unsaid by them, were the facts about the inherent advantages of 800 Mhz
>versus 1900 Mhz PCS in terms of both the number of sites required,
Urban myth.
>and
>the penetration into buildings.
It's not that simple: While 1900 penetrates walls less well than 800/850, it
does a better job of penetrating small openings (e.g., windows). In general
the difference tends to be relatively small.
>But the bottom line was that in a very
>urban part of Silicon Valley, I had no coverage at home, and my wife had
>no coverage at work.
And there we have it -- the reason for your vendetta.
>The acquisition of AT&T was especially good for Cingular in the west,
>where they didn't have any 800 Mhz spectrum. Coverage is much improved
>now,
On 1900, not 800. Yet another clueless claim.
>though the lack of AMPS on most GSM phones hurts coverage in remote
>areas of the Bay Area, as well as in places where AMPS is the only
>service available.
Not really. But then you're on Verizon, so that's why you don't know how good
the GSM coverage is.
>I've been in some suburbs of the Bay Area, where the ONLY coverage was
>AMPS, and it only worked outside! This is out in Contra Costa county in
>Moraga. People from the neighborhood would drive down to the high school
>and park in the lot to use their cell phones. Of course these same
>people were probably fighting any cell sites in their area, while at the
>same time complaining about lack of coverage.
Rubbish. There is actually good GSM coverage there.
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