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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / ATT Wireless / October 2003NEWS: UK "Mobile call quality is 'poor'"
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3210082.stm> Mobile phone users have a raw deal with call quality, a report says. A more expensive handset does not guarantee better quality either because it depends on your network, say voice quality experts Psytechnics. Calls on eight handsets across the five networks were tested, and no network performed very well. [MORE]  SignatureBest regards, HELP FOR CINGULAR GSM & SONY ERICSSON PHONES: John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/#Cingular | <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3210082.stm> | [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] | | [MORE] Its about time folks outside this NG figured that out! I like it when yuppies buy fancy phones, without a clue what they getting into! ><http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3210082.stm> > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Calls on eight handsets across the five networks were tested, and no > network performed very well. This is not possible. All those complainers here with Euro-envy tell us Europe's wireless system is so advanced and wonderful, while we're in the stone age with a mess of standards, poor coverage, and no strong government direction forcing us to conform. It just can't be! Also, I agree strongly with this comment in the article (its poor grammar notwithstanding): "The results question whether handset manufacturers are trading in features like cameras and expensive smart phone technology for voice quality. " The SE T300 being a good example. I'm sticking with a Moto P280 for now. Doug | ><http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3210082.stm> | > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] | | Doug You're right here, Doug. I've been to the UK and Ireland three times since June 2002. Haven't had one dropped call on T-Mobile UK (One-2-One) and O2 (BTCellnet), using my Moto V60G. Made 3 to 5 two-to-five minute calls per day over a period of 1 month in England (London, Birmingham, Coventry, Bath, Brighton) and Dublin, Ireland; then a few days in Edinburgh, Scotland where had no dropped calls, excellent signal quality, and then 10 days in London. Never, Never had that dropped call that I always wanted so that I could trash talk their networks. Damn did they do a fine job. Well I have 2 weeks this december to see if i can figure out what those pesky brits are whining about. I think its the typical British mentality of being gloomy all the time (How's the weather? F***ing dreadful, innit mate?) and expecting nothing but top-notch service. Here in USA we accept bullcrap as part of life and get on with it, and the Brits still hate us but love to come to the USA for cheap shopping trips and mickey mouse. I've been to England four times since August of 2002. I'm on Orange and have better reception than in the US. The fact that the non-CDMA carrers (leave Nextel aside, I've read conflicting reports on them) are migrating to GSM is evidence that they regard GSM as solid competition for CDMA. Europe no longer mandates the use of GSM and WCDMA is being used in some places now. An overpriced gadget ridden phone can exist on any technology. I think one place that Europe (and even Canada) got it right was permitting nationwide networks in the first place, rather than treating mobile technology like commercial broadcast and going market-by-market. Stu > | ><http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3210082.stm> > | > [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] > with it, and the Brits still hate us but love to come to the USA for cheap > shopping trips and mickey mouse. >The fact that the non-CDMA carrers >(leave Nextel aside, I've read conflicting reports on them) are migrating to >GSM is evidence that they regard GSM as solid competition for CDMA. Actually the migration is toward an eventual end of CDMA. The TDMA to GSM to CDMA (a variant) is more of a smoke screen than anything else. The TDMA companies don't want to admit that they made a mistake back in the early 1990's when they hurried to market with TDMA before all the tests were complete on CDMA. -- John S. e-mail responses to - john at kiana dot net The CDMA that is being implemented as a sucessor to GSM has little relation to the Qualcomm implementation of CDMA. Stu > >The fact that the non-CDMA carrers > >(leave Nextel aside, I've read conflicting reports on them) are migrating to [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > John S. > e-mail responses to - john at kiana dot net |
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