What was it? Do tell.

ummm.....ok. All I can say is obviously you haven't used a 3G CDMA phone recently. They're not that bad at all...close enough to GSM to be a viable alternative, with the added benefit of not having a SIM card to lock the phone up. They're both parallel technologies, very comparable to each other. But CDMA appears to be ahead in the future for data services...so take it as you will.

Speedywalk
"It ain't broke, it just needs duct tape!"

speedywalk said:
ummm.....ok. All I can say is obviously you haven't used a 3G CDMA phone recently. They're not that bad at all...close enough to GSM to be a viable alternative, with the added benefit of not having a SIM card to lock the phone up. They're both parallel technologies, very comparable to each other. But CDMA appears to be ahead in the future for data services...so take it as you will.

Speedywalk
"It ain't broke, it just needs duct tape!"

all i can say is that the 3g phone is not a CDMA phone, it is a W-CDMA phone.....completely different technology, CDMA is FAR FAR FAR behind the times, W-CDMA is the wave of the future

W-CDMA is not so much network, but rather data

WCDMA (UMTS)

Wideband Code-Division Multiple-Access (W-CDMA) is one of the main technologies for the implementation of third-generation (3G) cellular systems. It is base on radio access technique proposed by ETSI Alpha group and the specifications was finalised 1999.

The implementation of W-CDMA will be a technical challenge because of it's complexity and versatility. The complexity of W-CDMA systems can be viewed from different angles: the complexity of each single algorithm, the complexity of the overall system and the computational complexity of a receiver. W-CDMA link-level simulations are over 10 times more compute-intensive than current second-generation simulations. In W-CDMA int...
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bizkitsngravy said:
W-CDMA is not so much network, but rather data

WCDMA (UMTS)

Wideband Code-Division Multiple-Access (W-CDMA) is one of the main technologies for the implementation of third-generation (3G) cellular systems. It is base on radio access technique proposed by ETSI Alpha group and the specifications was finalised 1999.

The implementation of W-CDMA will be a technical challenge because of it's complexity and versatility. The complexity of W-CDMA systems can be viewed from different angles: the complexity of each single algorithm, the complexity of the overall system and the computational complexity of a receiver. W-CDMA link-level simulations are over 10 times more compute-intensive than current seco

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I can't wait until DCS-String comes out... It will put both CDMA and GSM... It will finally put everyone in their place and there will never be a GSM vs CDMA war again... Because DCS-String will crush both...

I don't quite fully understand how Japan's network works. Even we need to provide rental phone for our customers' if they wish to travel there and take a phone. To my understanding, there is a larger spectrum, but it is higher, and they've created a very complex multi-mix network that works very well together. I'll learn more about it, but it's not on the top of my list at the moment lol

DCS-String: I wasnt quite sure what you were talking about, so I did some reserch, and after finding similar answers on several different sites I came up with "DCS-String" is a computer language which allows you to control remote terminals (I think??) It doesn't have anything to do with wireless phones.
Here is just the last site that I visited:
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Dixies CupS & String 🤣 🤣 🤣 😎

😳
Nice.
ROFLMFAO 🤣

LOL! Good one. 🤣

That seems to be a play on what a friend of mine calls SBC service, i.e. 'String Between Cans' (SBC).

Works for other carriers too:

VZW- Variety of Zealots Wireless
(Sprint or Metro) PCS- Pretty Crappy Service
ATTW- All-Time Train Wreck

🙂

DCS - Dead Cellular Service
AT&T - Always Tedious and Troublesome Worthless Sheyat
SBC - Suckered to Buy Cingular
VZW - Vehemently Zero Worth
Cingular - Calls Incoming Not Great Unless Low quality Apparatus Rendered


How about these for size folks? 😈 😁

Well, for starters, DCS isn't a carrier. 🤣

JessiCSR said:
Well, for starters, DCS isn't a carrier. 🤣

I know but the others are. 🤣

sunilsonia said:

JessiCSR said:
Well, for starters, DCS isn't a carrier. 🤣

I know but the others are. 🤣

GSM (particularly when coverage is not available)......Got Service? Man

Keep in mind, your precious T-mobile is GSM 😉

JessiCSR said:
Keep in mind, your precious T-mobile is GSM 😉

Hence, the joke!

Aleq said:
Especially since two years ago we were expecting to be at 8 million but got 10 instead. How many of the "supercarriers" have doubled their customer base in the past two years, WITHOUT buying it outright?

Preach it. T-Mobile isn't the "lil engine that could". We are the "lil engine that can and have done so".

How you like them apples?

🤣

well, we all got an e-mail today from Robert Dodson, addessed company wide. (For thouse of you who don't know he is the president of the company). Basically he said he was dissapointed that we could have done better, and pushed more out because we had great response. A lot of our programs were successful (for the year), but in terms of management, we could have rolled them out on a much larger scale, we were again "holding back to see what happens" (that's not verbatim, btw) I did see a number in there, though...54%. If I read the letter correctly, that was T-Mobile USA's financial contribution to T-Mo international over 2004. DT is very pleased. He didn't go into any details, but he said next year we're beefing it up, and getting ready to t...
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If I read the letter correctly, that was T-Mobile USA's financial contribution to T-Mo international over 2004. DT is very pleased.

Another reason that Deutsche is very much behind its US arm. Tmobile isn't going anywhere.

😁 She said that the President said that 2005 is going to be a Strong year for T-Mobile. I hope better phones, and especially with EDGE, I hope its faster than Cingulars, and allow the Voice Coverage to increase by 50% so we can bump Cingular, Sprint and Nextel out of the Market.

terryjohnson16 said:
😁 She said that the President said that 2005 is going to be a Strong year for T-Mobile. I hope better phones, and especially with EDGE, I hope its faster than Cingulars, and allow the Voice Coverage to increase by 50% so we can bump Cingular, Sprint and Nextel out of the Market.

As much as I support T-Mobile, that would be horrible! First off, I think they will always be contenders, but there's no telling where this industry is going to evolve to. As far as "bumping" everyone out of the market, that would be catastrophic economically. You don't ever want to have one major super power for more reasons than one. Balance is a good thing 🙂

We don't need any more contributions towards...
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😁 Yeah. True, then T-Mobile would make their plans sky high, since their would be no competition.

terryjohnson16 said:
😁 She said that the President said that 2005 is going to be a Strong year for T-Mobile. I hope better phones, and especially with EDGE, I hope its faster than Cingulars, and allow the Voice Coverage to increase by 50% so we can bump Cingular, Sprint and Nextel out of the Market.

Uh, it's good to hope.

if I can have around 150k with class 8 EDGE device, I'll be satisfied
most of shoutcast stations runs 128k streaming mp3 format

😁 U are really beastin for shoutcast!

If I just listening to radios in realaudio and wmp, GPRS is good enough to go (most of them are 20k)
but with EDGE and shoutcast, I can simply forget XM radio

😁 So, now we only have to wait 4-5 more months until EDGE is deployed?

yes
and I don't even have to jump to Cingular for EDGE, because I checked the updated Data Connect brochure, that NY state don't have EDGE coverage yet 🙄

😁 I took a look at the Cingular map yesterday, and it only shows GPRS in NYC! Does that mean that they are using T-Mobile's towers which doesn't have EDGE activated yet?