Snapper <snapper1@y7mail.com> wrote
> John Henderson wrote

>>> So, if you're not getting NextG where once you got CDMA,
>>> then either they aren't replacing CDMA with NG, or that the
>>> new NG cells don't have the same range as what CDMA did.

>> And that lack of range could be because the phones aren't up to scratch.

> Then it tends to make the whole exercise a tad pointless.

Nope.

> Why bother with phones that won't work within the normal range of the towers?

Because not everyone wants to use the phone in a car kit.

> ie. demand that the phone providers provide phones that meet
> a minimum specification which includes reception levels?

Pity that not everyone wants to use the phone in a carkit.

> Isn't the whole point of NextG to provide coverage
> in areas where other networks won't reach,

Nope. Its about a hell of a lot more than just that,
particularly when the cdma system already did that.

> hence why they went with 850Mhz network

They used that because they had purchased that spectrum space for the cdma system.

> rather than simply extending the existing higher frequency GSM/3G network out into the stix?

Pity about the digital cliff that GSM has.

No surprise that this fool has to bludge off a union.