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HAAM SUP,
"....The system we are talking about is GSM, but it has 3 distinct frequency bands, depending on service provider and country. In the US, it is 1900 MHz. In Thailand, it is 900MHz for AIS, and 1800MHz for DTAC. Tri-band GSM phones operate on 900/1800/1900MHz, and will work with the SIM from the vendor in the country where you will use it...."
In several countries of Latin America there is only 1900MHz cell phones. Monopoly perhaps?
Cell phones operating at 900 and 1800MHz ranges are definitely not working up there.
I got a 3310 once and while after visiting the normal telephone line dealer back at home I got the bad news and had to put the shit in the bin. It was a new one BTW.
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Posted on: 10:19 pm on Feb. 13, 2003
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haam sup
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Right, Pinga, the 3310 won't work because it is not a TRI-BAND phone. Until recently, there were very few tri-band phones available, but now they are quite common. Sony-Ericsson makes some nice and cheap ones. Nokia has lots of new ones, too.
As for monopoly - I don't think so. Just failure to cooperate, and in the US case, late entry into the GSM market. Qualcomm is pushing the CDMA standard everywhere they can, and it is NOT compatible, doesn't use SIM cards, and can be a really bad system.
I like GSM.
haam sup
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Posted on: 11:46 pm on Feb. 13, 2003
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We've got CDMA here in Japan and it provides the clearest uninterrupted service of all the providers. Instead of receiving and sending to only one cell repeater, it side-bands to and from all the repeaters reachable and then uses error correction on the output.
They've also a COM based dev. platform for handheld applications that blows the shit out of the JAVA based platforms. I download updates to my GSM application quite often and although JAVA is OK for games and shit, it's worthless for anything of any power.
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Posted on: 6:07 am on Feb. 14, 2003
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