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Article #577Re: GSM High Gain Antenna
From: Michael J
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:24
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:24
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"John Henderson" <jhenRemoveThis@bigpond.com> wrote in message news:b34t87$1iahhv$1@ID-83062.news.dfncis.de... > "Albinus" wrote: > > > Optus currently have 3 EGSM towers, Mt. Mowbullan (Bunya > > Mountains) in QLD, and Meriton and Lochiel in SA. > > Are these ER (Extended Range) or EGSM (Enhanced GSM)? As I > understand it, an EGSM cell "expands" the 900 MHz band slightly, > and requires an EGSM phone to take advantage of the extra traffic > capacity (but there's no increase in range). ER (and EER) works > with any 900 MHz GSM phone. > > Or are we just using our acronyms differently? > > > Vodafone has deployed quite a few in their new highway coverage > > project, and I'm not sure about Telstra... or did they just > > pump the $$$ into CDMA instead? > > Into CDMA from what I can make out. Optus seems to be making the > most significant GSM advances. And they are still years behind telstra gsm its laughable telstra cdma, AND telstra GSM, still further and further in front > > John > >
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