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"Zeldus" <no@email.com> wrote in message
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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 ??

    Simple, because the US does, I know that sounds bad but sometimes it's
just wiser to follow the US's lead. Aside from this the 70km limit of GSM
isn't that bad, at 70km most phones won't be able to reach the cell site
anymore since you are past the radio horizon. TTYL