PCS
Alltel uses 850 MHz CDMA and has roaming agreements with wireless carriers that use 850 MHz CDMA, PCS aka 1900 MHz CDMA and 850 MHz AMPS. The only two 1st tier wireless carriers in the US that are true PCS I believe are T Mobile(1900 MHz GSM) and Sprint PCS(1900 MHz).
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raycarroll70 said:
Alltel uses 850 MHz CDMA and has roaming agreements with wireless carriers that use 850 MHz CDMA, PCS aka 1900 MHz CDMA and 850 MHz AMPS. The only two 1st tier wireless carriers in the US that are true PCS I believe are T Mobile(1900 MHz GSM) and Sprint PCS(1900 MHz).
Alltel is mostly an 800/850 band carrier. They have PCS coverage in parts of the south. But they did acquire portions of AT&T Wireless's network from Cingular when Cingular had to divest some markets. Alltel got PCS out of it, and I don't know if any of it's been converted to CDMA or not.
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Alltel has both native cellular and PCS. The majority of the network is cellular. Don't let anyone tell you that PCS is higher quality or anything because it is not. There is no difference between PCS and Cellular besides call capacity, distance from the tower traveled, and building penetration. Cellular travels further from the tower, and penetrates buildings better. While PCS can hold more calls.
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Alltel carries various Mhz freq markets, most are CDMA , Jacksonville is an example of a PCS market...and St Lucie / Martin County is a TDMA market but only due to acquisition of US Cellular...however they plan to drop this TDMA service Jan '07
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oh trust me i already know that the pcs and cellular isnt that much different, only that one is better in metro areas and the other in rurul, and 850 has longer propagation and building penetration and pcs has higher capacity 🙂
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