Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
Originally posted by: dug777
Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
Originally posted by: dug777
Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
Originally posted by: dug777
Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
Originally posted by: dug777
On the upside, even tho i'm on prepaid, they're offering free GSM handsets if you exchange it now, and closer to the time they'll be offering free 3G handsets for those who use their phones outside existing GSM coverage (like little me)...a small consolation i suppose, but i'm very happy with my current mobile 😛
They've spent years and millions rolling CDMA out, especially in regional areas, and having only completed the roll-out recently, they're going to start converting them to W-CDMA (a 3G) :| I've heard that they can use ~80% of the existing components in the CDMA towers when they convert them, so i guess it must make sense to someone out there...
It's not as if CDMA 1x is useless tho 😕
Wait, what? So they're converting it to GSM? Well personally I hate CDMA, I'm glad to see GSM becoming more universal as it should be, now if they would only kill of CDMA in the states...
No.
Like i said, W-CDMA. We already have a GSM network that will continue for a while yet, but it is practically non-existent in regional areas.
Look up W-CDMA, it's basically UTMS which IMO=GSM
Too bad considering that they're already rolling out HSDPA, funny that they're already doing HSDPA in the states when most people are on GPRS. :laugh:
W-CDMA handsets won't work with GSM, and vice versa. So no, W-CDMA doesn't equal GSM for any practical purpose.
EDIT: wiki: More technically, W-CDMA is a wideband spread-spectrum mobile air interface that utilizes the direct sequence Code Division Multiple Access signalling method (or CDMA) to achieve higher speeds and support more users compared to the older TDMA signalling method of GSM networks.
EDIT2: you have no idea what you're talking about
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wiki: In Australia, telecommunication giant Telstra launched their UMTS 3G network named NextG on the 850Mhz band using HSDPA in October 2006
Sorry, you don't know what you're talking about...
W-CDMA was developed by NTT DoCoMo as the air interface for their 3G network FOMA. Later NTT DoCoMo submitted the specification to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) as a candidate for the international 3G standard known as IMT-2000. The ITU eventually accepted W-CDMA as part of the IMT-2000 family of 3G standards, as an alternative to CDMA2000, EDGE, and the short range DECT system.
Later, W-CDMA was selected as the air interface for UMTS, the 3G successor to GSM.
Dude, you said W-CDMA=GSM. It doesn't. Plain & Simple. It's actually CDMA based whereas GSM is TDMA (as i posted, if you bothered to read what i posted at any stage in this thread).
The fact it's the successor of GSM has nothing to do with anything you initially said
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You then made some inane comments about HSPDA, that just make no sense at all, however you slice them.
In my eyes, it's basically GSM because UMTS headsets are backward compatible with GSM headsets, you don't have the backward compatibility with CDMA networks..
UMTS phones work on GSM and UMTS networks, UMTS phones however don't work on CDMA networks, therefore I'd consider W-CDMA to be GSM because it provides the backward compatibility. If you want to get technical and talk about how they're different technologies, be my guest, but you'll be the only one discussing it.
And my comments aren't inane about HSDPA, it's funny because most phones in the US only support GPRS and they're now effectively skipping two steps, UMTS and EDGE, sure HSDPA is UMTS but the original speeds of UMTS are far slower than HSDPA. The 4G sucessor will be based off of UMTS as well.
