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Posted by Steve Sobol on January 31, 2006, 9:07 pm
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T wrote:
> I note that wherever I go in RI, Verizon seems to have very good
> coverage. But the article has obvious falsehoods, like former AT&T
> towers not talking to Cingular towers. It's because Cingular and AT&T
> used differnt protocols, one was CDMA the other was GSM. They're
> transitioning to all GSM at the moment.
AT&T and Cingular BOTH used to be a mix of *TDMA* and GSM, and they
were both migrating to GSM at the time of the merger.
Monty Solomon wrote:
> Calls were made on each phone from the same location within a
> one-minute period, and a record was kept of whether calls went through
> clearly on the first try, had an obviously weak connection, or failed
> to connect after three attempts.
> A total of 480 phone calls were made from 120 locations ranging from
> Newton to Boylston and from Norfolk to Lincoln.
> Sixty-two of the calls, or about 13 percent, didn't connect on the
> first try.
How much of this was due to NIMBY's?
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