Military To Take Over Analog?
This question kind of goes along with the other message I just posted. I think it was the same saleslady who said that some "All-Digital" phones will do analog who said that analog will be going away soon for consumer use, to make way for the military to use that band.
Is this true?
Why would the military want the crappy analog stuff?
When will this happen, if true? If not true, when do you experts think analog will truly be fully a thing of the past? Over two years ago I heard analog would be gone "by the end of the year". Obviously it is still around. I assume the digital replacement program is moving along, but how fast? Don't analog towers cover a much broader area? So to cover the same area, they must put in several digital towers (t...
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Is this true?
Why would the military want the crappy analog stuff?
When will this happen, if true? If not true, when do you experts think analog will truly be fully a thing of the past? Over two years ago I heard analog would be gone "by the end of the year". Obviously it is still around. I assume the digital replacement program is moving along, but how fast? Don't analog towers cover a much broader area? So to cover the same area, they must put in several digital towers (t...
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NOT SURE Anot sure about the army 😕
but a while ago i read on-star will be taking ove analog and some tdma.
if memory serves me correct.it stated anolog would have been dumped off to them but at he time they couldn't afford it. sothen the FCC jumped in and made it so cell companies had to keep i for a while longer in hopes i guess on-star or whomever i remember on-star would build up some cash to buy a network of analog and tdma.
i beliee that's how it went
but a while ago i read on-star will be taking ove analog and some tdma.
if memory serves me correct.it stated anolog would have been dumped off to them but at he time they couldn't afford it. sothen the FCC jumped in and made it so cell companies had to keep i for a while longer in hopes i guess on-star or whomever i remember on-star would build up some cash to buy a network of analog and tdma.
i beliee that's how it went
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The military doesn't want the analog service, they want the frequency band, so they can put itto some other use.
I have heard talk that they want to use a modification of the iDEN protocol; but from a technical standpoint, TDMA, Amps (analog), CDMA, GSM, iDEN, etc, don't really care what frewquncy they are on (which is why you can have, for exmaple, GSM 800/900/1800/1900.
The FCC wants the frequencies currently occupied by analog television service, too, for other services, including, IIRC, paging services (people still have pagers?? 😈 ) and so on.
Don't know about the OnStar thing mentioned in a different response, but it doesn't sound right, to me.
I think the last I heard was the end of 2006 the FCC would require peop...
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I have heard talk that they want to use a modification of the iDEN protocol; but from a technical standpoint, TDMA, Amps (analog), CDMA, GSM, iDEN, etc, don't really care what frewquncy they are on (which is why you can have, for exmaple, GSM 800/900/1800/1900.
The FCC wants the frequencies currently occupied by analog television service, too, for other services, including, IIRC, paging services (people still have pagers?? 😈 ) and so on.
Don't know about the OnStar thing mentioned in a different response, but it doesn't sound right, to me.
I think the last I heard was the end of 2006 the FCC would require peop...
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mupi said:...
The military doesn't want the analog service, they want the frequency band, so they can put itto some other use.
I have heard talk that they want to use a modification of the iDEN protocol; but from a technical standpoint, TDMA, Amps (analog), CDMA, GSM, iDEN, etc, don't really care what frewquncy they are on (which is why you can have, for exmaple, GSM 800/900/1800/1900.
The FCC wants the frequencies currently occupied by analog television service, too, for other services, including, IIRC, paging services (people still have pagers?? 😈 ) and so on.
Don't know about the OnStar thing mentioned in a different response, but it doesn't sound right, to me.
I think the last I heard was the end of
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