Re: Why GSM in such a big country like Canada ?

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From: David Felstead
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:24

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On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 21:37:12 GMT, "GrantB" <grant@spice.girls> wrote
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>does anyone know the real coverage capability of a CDMA cell? Is it over the
>horizon? If so, what is the latency? What is the power requirement for a
>handset?

Telstra was flogging a magic figure of 'up to 120km' from each cell.
Not sure how or why though, sorry.

-DF

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