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I always thought GSM meant Global System for Mobilecommunications ?
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Posted: 2002-08-27 16:05:00
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deffinitively Sprint's going to promote its own service. I bet you Nextel will say on their site that they have the largest network in America.
Keyword here is PCS. PCS stands for Personal Communication System, it's just a cute way of saying that Sprint has the all digital network operating at 1900 MHz CDMA. And that's that. In fact, Sprint may very well have the largest 1900 MHz network because that's what they built. But all we are talking about is one company that uses only one band. Verizon's network works in 800 AMPS 800 CDMA and 1900 CDMA. Same with Cingular. ATT on the other hand uses the same frequencies but in TDMA. and they aswell have analog coverage. Nextel uses only digital and that's all 800 MHz iDEN, a variation of TDMA.
So, when Sprint says they have the largest network in USA they mean they have the largest 1900 MHz network. Whereas my Verizon phone has gotten me service in the most unthinkable of places. Mostly analog, but hey, I was able to contact whoever I needed to.
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Posted: 2002-08-27 21:35:00
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On 2002-08-27 16:05, captainsm wrote:
I always thought GSM meant Global System for Mobilecommunications ?
That's actually also correct! From the very begining the three letters came from "Groupe Special de Mobil", then a few years later (probably when it became obvious that this was going to be big) it was decided that GSM also should be a short for "Global System for Mobilecommunications".
Now days, GSM is standard technical system, back then GSM was a group of people.
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Posted: 2002-08-29 08:34:00
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