Confirmation Please
Could someone please settle a debate. I have a friend in Florida who insists that Cingular there used to be at one time CDMA. I said no, TDMA yes, but CDMA no, never....can I get a few people to verify this so I will win my bet 🙂
Much thanks.
Much thanks.
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Icyhot said:
Could someone please settle a debate. I have a friend in Florida who insists that Cingular there used to be at one time CDMA. I said no, TDMA yes, but CDMA no, never....can I get a few people to verify this so I will win my bet 🙂
Much thanks.
Technically cingular has never been CDMA as cingular. OTOH there was GTE Mobilenet in Seattle and since GTE was becoming VeriZon they had to divest that franchise since it would have been anticompetitive for VeriZon to own two wireless entities in the same area. GTE Mobilenet was CDMA, but the franchise was sold to cingular and cingular changed the system from CDMA PCS to GSM PCS (1900.) When cingular was first formed the only major GSM cingular ha...
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Be nice to know the specific area in Florida, as there are several different M & RSA's. I can sat without doubt that the former BellSouth Mobility areas were TDMA.
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I'm pretty sure there was amps (analog) in Florida prior to the launch of TDMA. But as far back as I've been able to gather there has never, ever been CDMA in Florida.
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littlefuzzbear said:...Icyhot said:
Could someone please settle a debate. I have a friend in Florida who insists that Cingular there used to be at one time CDMA. I said no, TDMA yes, but CDMA no, never....can I get a few people to verify this so I will win my bet 🙂
Much thanks.
Technically cingular has never been CDMA as cingular. OTOH there was GTE Mobilenet in Seattle and since GTE was becoming VeriZon they had to divest that franchise since it would have been anticompetitive for VeriZon to own two wireless entities in the same area. GTE Mobilenet was CDMA, but the franchise was sold to cingular and cingular changed the system from CDMA PCS to GSM PCS (1900.) When cingular was fi
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AtTheMet said:
The were sold spectrum only. Not customers or infrastructure.
So you're saying that GTE Mobilenet customers just had their service shut off with nothing???? As I recall GTE Mobilenet customers were offered new GSM handsets to use with cingular.
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littlefuzzbear said:AtTheMet said:
The were sold spectrum only. Not customers or infrastructure.
So you're saying that GTE Mobilenet customers just had their service shut off with nothing???? As I recall GTE Mobilenet customers were offered new GSM handsets to use with cingular.
GTE customers and network assets went to what we now know as verizon. The required divestitures are how the spectrum fell into Cingular's lap.
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AtTheMet said:GTE customers and network assets went to what we now know as verizon. The required divestitures are how the spectrum fell into Cingular's lap.
Aha! I wasn't sure exactly what happened. I was under the wrong impression what happend since I was under the impression that it would have been non-competitive to have two wireless companies go to VeriZon. So you're saying that GTE customers actually did go to VeriZon. I learned something interesting that Qwest Wireless customers now use the Sprint network in addition to native coverage. A friend of mine who has Qwest Wireless service his number is listed as belonging to Sprint-Nextel.
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