WHY DOES CDMA USE EXTENDABLE ANT??
jinx7676 said:
one simplified answer i guess would be that GSM requires less "work" on the phone's part to acquire a signal. i don't know 100% any other reasons, but i have SOOOO many people that love that they dont have to pull on an antenna anymore when they port over from Verizon. 😉, as a matter of fact, 2 more last night 😉
It all started when the FCC came out with the radiation warnings about cell phones in the late 90's/early 2000's. They stated that phones with stub/internal antennas provided the body with more radiation than phones with extendable antennas.
When that happened, Verizon was pointed out as a great carrier for not having any phones with stub antennas, so they used it as a...
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