LTE is not GSM. LTE is not GSM based. LEAVE IT ALONE.
I'm sure that if AT&T had chosen UMB as their 4G upgrade path you'd still be babbling about how AT&T went CDMA. Oh wait, we've heard that already when AT&T 'chose CDMA' by upgrading to UMTS (which in reality is not CDMA!)
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the_eraser said:
I'm sure that if AT&T had chosen UMB as their 4G upgrade path you'd still be babbling about how AT&T went CDMA. Oh wait, we've heard that already when AT&T 'chose CDMA' by upgrading to UMTS (which in reality is not CDMA!)
You don't get it do you. IT"S NOT about the technology. ITs about how the technology is USED! The application of such. It just so happens GSM carriers have a far more open application of their technology. REAL non network GPS in some phones. (meaning no cost for VEriaon Navigator and using Cell phone towers instead of a satellite.
Thats what's important to me. Not the nomenclature or acronyms.
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If AT&T had picked UMB for their upgrade path they would have shot themselves in the foot 😛
LTE isnt the normal upgrade path for GSM, it is just the tech picked by the 3GPP. Like WCDMA before it, it has nothing to do with the previous tech.
LTE isnt the normal upgrade path for GSM, it is just the tech picked by the 3GPP. Like WCDMA before it, it has nothing to do with the previous tech.
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I think you're wrong. If WCDMA had nothing to do with GSM, then you wouldn't be able to fall back and forth within the two.
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Look at T-mobile. They use GSM and WiFi to make calls and hand off between the 2, yet GSM and Wifi have nothing to do with each other. different technology and spectrums. You could converge any technology if you wanted to, GSM, CDMA, EVDO, WCDMA, LTE, WiMax, WiFi, etc...
CDMA can upgrade the same tower and use the same spectrum to continue it's evolution. IS95, 1XRTT, EVDO Rev 0, Rev A, Rev B, UMB Rev C and it all backwards compatible.
GSM uses different Technology and spectrum along it's evolution. It's all compatible, just that it has to be intergrated whereas CDMA was from the start.
CDMA can upgrade the same tower and use the same spectrum to continue it's evolution. IS95, 1XRTT, EVDO Rev 0, Rev A, Rev B, UMB Rev C and it all backwards compatible.
GSM uses different Technology and spectrum along it's evolution. It's all compatible, just that it has to be intergrated whereas CDMA was from the start.
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