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because canada is smart and realize the advantages of data transfer and
extra services on the gsm network
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 ??
>
> Zeldus
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