Why GSM in such a big country like Canada ?

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From: Zeldus
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 21:08

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Hello !

I know the situation is different in Europe than in America or Australia...
GSM is a European standard originaly built in 1991 for the European market
and for European customers / countries... Western Europe is pretty smaller
than USA + Canada whith much more population, so GSM is more adapted here
(cell size are smaller because of much more customers in a given area).

For larger countries with less people/customers, GSM is not the most adequat
cell system because of it's cell size limitation (35 kms or 70 kms with
special configuration). I remember Australia moved to CDMA because of
problems of coverage in remote places with GSM (impossible to build a
correct network with so little size GSM cells). Now they have CDMA, they get
much better coverage in remote places...

So, why Canada, (similar to Australia for size/population) is doing the
opposite ??

Zeldus

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