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Cellular Phone Forum / General / GSM / February 2004gsm & north america
Does anyone know how the US is coming on gsm? I know europe has it down pretty good but the US has been lacking in expansion of gsm for a while now, are they getting any closer to building it out as far as towers and coverage? Capt >Does anyone know how the US is coming on gsm? I know europe has it down pretty good but the US has been lacking in expansion of gsm for a while now, are they getting any closer to building it out as far as towers and coverage? And what would you mean by "closer to building it out?" AT&T Wireless, cingular and T-Mobile are expanding as far as where they cover, but if you're asking is GSM coverage in the US anywhere near ubiquitously universal I'm afraid that isn't the case and it's likely not to be the case for many years if ever. There are wide expanses of the US that will not have *any* mobile coverage at all if only because some areas of the US are so remote and unpopulated it's a losing proposition for mobile carriers to put infrastructure in these areas. 1st generation analog AMPS mobile is available in more areas than are digital (of any standard), but coverage isn't anywhere near as ubiquitous as it is in Europe. Coverage is not all that different from other large countries such as Australia or Russia for that matter. GSM coverage in the US is pretty well covered in the larger metropolitan areas and the highways that connect those areas. When you get off the highway and it's not a big urban area you will tend to have no coverage. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - remove NO from .NOcom to reply Ummmm, you might want to revise your comments re Australian coverage, one link is GSM the other CDMA. http://www.telstra.com.au/mobile/networks/info/gsm.htm http://www.telstra.com.au/mobile/networks/info/cdma.htm -- StreetwisE 1st generation analog AMPS mobile is available in more areas than are digital (of any standard), but coverage isn't anywhere near as ubiquitous as it is in Europe. Coverage is not all that different from other large countries such as Australia or Russia for that matter. GSM coverage in the US is pretty well covered in the larger metropolitan areas and the highways that connect those areas >Ummmm, you might want to revise your comments re Australian coverage, one >link is GSM the other CDMA. > >http://www.telstra.com.au/mobile/networks/info/gsm.htm > >http://www.telstra.com.au/mobile/networks/info/cdma.htm The question was the amount of *GSM* coverage. My comment still stands. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - remove NO from .NOcom to reply You are obviously ignorant of the word coverage, or Australian GSM networks. -- StreetwisE | >Ummmm, you might want to revise your comments re Australian coverage, one | >link is GSM the other CDMA. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | remove NO from .NOcom to reply >You are obviously ignorant of the word coverage, or Australian GSM networks. Funny when you go to gsmworld.com and click on all four of the Australian GSM networks most of 'em have major coverage in southeastern Australia with very little coverage anywhere else. Hutchison has practically *nothing*! Maybe you're saying that the coverage maps that gsmworld has are completely wrong and the whole country is covered from west to east and north to south. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - remove NO from .NOcom to reply thank you both of you for the info, the australian coverage means nothing to me. I mostly wanted to know about the coverage of gsm in morth america, mostly because I live here but in my state about 30 miles from the central part of the state you have no gsm coverage, which truly sucks because the population is obvisously warranting cdma, tdma and iden to put service there, so I am trying to figure out why gsm lacks so much. t mobile is the only one in my state, att is just barely tapped the gsm area and cingular is not even here, which is odd for company that claims such huge numbers yet covers very little of the midwest. Capt. > >You are obviously ignorant of the word coverage, or Australian GSM networks. > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > remove NO from .NOcom to reply |
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