The array setup of panels may cause the transmitter to be directional or omni-directional.
It may also be limited by local geographical or regulatory factors and weather conditions.
According to our NSG our Range Before the Built in Repeaters in the Tower is 40km (25miles). Our Tower Repeaters will Amplify the signal Up to 100km's Depending on Very fine conditions. Those of which I am not aware of. Only one i am aware of is if the Tower is Directional and on a Peak.
In areas like Southern Ontario we actually restrict the range of our towers to help prevent accidental roaming. We have them scrolled to have just enough overlap to have a clean Hand-off from Tower A to Tower B for example. But not enough to confuse the hardware in trying to figure out which tower to Lock on to.
CDMA for example (Aliant, Bell, Telus etc)
CDMA towers have no output limit (besides for that mandated) What actually limits these towers is the ability for the Hardware (Cell phone) to Transmit back to the Tower. Rule of thumb*; Level Terrain (50-70 km / 30-45 miles) ; Hilly Terrain** (5-8 km / 3-5 miles)
* Based on Tall Tower
** Based on Tall Tower; This is the Minimum Distance.
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elmo01 Posts: 2342
Phone Model: Samsung SPH-M510
Service Provider: Bell Canada
Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:08 pm
a very nice and eloquent diatribe .but that is the reference? (title of the book)
Tordek Posts: 10
Tue Aug 07, 2007 7:18 pm
Most Common Information Can be Found By Looking up GSM in wikipedia.
Basicly Our Network support group will speak for the same thing. I wish i could post our Network Spec's on this but the Pages are on our Intranet Server. But basicly it's a compilation of Wikipedia and our Network System Analysis Documentation. Under this Documentation we can see the Ranging on Each tower. What they are boosted to, Or Dialed Back to.
mariokarter Posts: 10
Wed Aug 08, 2007 2:55 am
^^^What you don't have a camera phone?
Barciur Posts: 246
Phone Model: Nokia 5300
Service Provider: T-Mobile USA/Plus GSM
Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:43 am
Why are you posting that in this topic ^^
McGirk Posts: 2411
Phone Model: AX380 Wave
Service Provider: Alltel
Thu Aug 16, 2007 2:32 pm
Fooking MI is so hilly, no wonder rural areas suck for most companies.
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