Coverage issues--what spectrum does T-Mobile use?
I live in Harrisonburg, Virginia--the north-western part of Virginia, and coverage outside is excellent in most areas. However, just riding around to some parts further away from the highway I start getting emergency-only stuff and no signal at all.
Do they use 850 at all? I know my phone--the Samsung e315 only uses the 1900 band in the United States, but I was wondering if T-Mobile uses that range of frequencies at all. And if it would be worth getting a different phone that actually uses that band.
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Hell SPRINT [cdma] is better in this area, I'm ashamed and I can't believe I wasted this much money.
Is there a chance in hell that T-Mobile will have even marginally as good coverage as Cingular possibly might have? Ev...
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Do they use 850 at all? I know my phone--the Samsung e315 only uses the 1900 band in the United States, but I was wondering if T-Mobile uses that range of frequencies at all. And if it would be worth getting a different phone that actually uses that band.
[semi-rant]
Hell SPRINT [cdma] is better in this area, I'm ashamed and I can't believe I wasted this much money.
Is there a chance in hell that T-Mobile will have even marginally as good coverage as Cingular possibly might have? Ev...
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850 frequency is out there and we do have some random access to it. However, we don't have any signed agreements with any carrier to utilize their 850 signal full-time. As far as opening it up, we don't have any plans to do so in the near future as it is not a highly used frequency yet. Some of our phones have the capability of using this freq. but I wouldn't go out and buy one just yet. Like I said at the beginning, we don't have guaranteed access to any 850 signal right now, so picking it up is pure luck. As far as your problems with leaving the highway in Virginia and getting poor signal, that is somewhat typical in that area. We are actually building "up" our network there, not "out". And don't even think about comparing Sprints CDMA to ...
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I know, but I've heard such negative things about Sprint--and I wasn't thrilled about their two year plans either.
Is their a tentative date for this buildup in the area?
Is their a tentative date for this buildup in the area?
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Not right now. We have no plans to open it up. But, like all things in this industry, it could pop up out of nowhere.
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We'll see.
Until Cingular/ATT is in the area I may stick with T-Mobile, unless I get Verizon.
Until Cingular/ATT is in the area I may stick with T-Mobile, unless I get Verizon.
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Sorry... But 850 was around way before 1900 was. That was the Cellular Frequency... The 1900 is the PCS Frequency... Cingular/AT&T and Verizon uses the 850 bandwidth... The FCC opened up 1900 to cope with to many users on the 850 band... TMo uses 1900 exclusively... as does Sprint (even though they have phones that have 850 so they can roam) Look at the v600, TMo disabled the use of 850 from that phone...
***(and please no one say anything about me listing Verizon and Sprint, I know very well they are not GSM, but we are talking spectrum here not technology)
***(and please no one say anything about me listing Verizon and Sprint, I know very well they are not GSM, but we are talking spectrum here not technology)
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Um... remember what I said about technology... that's not the issue... the issue was the frequency...
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true, but lets be more specific, 850mhz is commonly referred to as the cellular frequency, it was not commonly added to the GSM until recently, and its true that 850 does penetrate into buildings better yet the handoff from 1900mhz to 850mhz produces too many dropped calls
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that's because tmo opted to use 1900 when they started... so until cingular/aws went gsm, no companies had to use it...
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lol i know that......i have no coverage issues with either tmobile or AWS in california (well now, when i had AWS originally and they were 1900 only their coverage was fawking horrible)......
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