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Article #40Re: Why GSM in such a big country like Canada ?
From: gcgube
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 06:51
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 06:51
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I heard that CDMA's voice bandwidth is not as good as GSM. but I am not sure though. The other reason maybe that you have more choice of network and most importantly more choices of phones. What is the lightest phone in north america? probably 8290 I guess. tell me if I am wrong. one more reason maybe the SMS. it's free even you are in US (cityfone/simpro)! "Zeldus" <no@email.com> ���g��l�� news:CABFD5B1F2CD777D.CD5FDE1048A474DD.CCD35D6B55884796@lp.airnews.net... > > 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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