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iowa
Posts: 1131
Phone Model:
Sanyo Katana Deluxe\LG Rumor\Palm Centro
Service Provider:
Sprint~MyPlan (2 Lines 1000 Min, Free Roaming,Free Internet, Free Text, Free Pick 5, Free Mobile 2 Mobile, 25% Loyalty Discount, Free Nights & Weekends@5PM, 7$ Recurring Credit.) 80 Bucks. |
 
Fri Apr 18, 2008 11:04 pm |
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Here's something even all you gsm sprint hating fanatics can't take away from sprint. sprint customer loyalty. now before you start laughing and go off on some random tanget saying sprint lost so and so customers listen up. sprint also kept 54 million customers. and here's my reasoning. in january as some or all of you may know, sprint made a slight change in thier contract, and while doing so, offered EVERY SINGLE SPRINT AND NEXTEL CUSTOMER the chance to leave sprint or nextel WITHOUT ANY ETF fee's. they even sent out a letter saying so. sure sprint did lose alot of customers, but they also kept 54 million. that's a huge number. so that means 54 million people purposely choose to stay with sprint of thier own free will. period. now if other carriers did the same, and gave every customer they have under contract the chance to leave with no penalties, how would they fair? Who's to say sprint wasn't cleaning out the garbage customer's in the first place?
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Barciur
Posts: 250
Phone Model:
Nokia 5300
Service Provider:
T-Mobile USA/Plus GSM |
Sat Apr 19, 2008 7:10 am |
The fact is they stayed 'cause they liked it better. ANd it's good if you can choose what works better for you.  And that is a plus for sprint 
btw. i hope that line abouut GSM fanatics sprint haters wasnt addressed to me
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Shalalala
Posts: 662 |
Sat Apr 19, 2008 8:06 am |
Gsm is superior.
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Barciur
Posts: 250
Phone Model:
Nokia 5300
Service Provider:
T-Mobile USA/Plus GSM |
Sat Apr 19, 2008 8:23 am |
| TheManator wrote: | Gsm is superior.
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McGirk
Posts: 2387
Phone Model:
AX380 Wave
Service Provider:
Alltel |
Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:03 am |
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GSM is not superior, it just is in more places. That would be like saying VHS was superior to Betamax. It clearly was not, but more people supported VHS so it won in the end.
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shaftlg
Posts: 8 |
Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:46 am |
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hey to each his on. I have gsm because it works were I need it. I have to admit sprint is not that bad
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iowa
Posts: 1131
Phone Model:
Sanyo Katana Deluxe\LG Rumor\Palm Centro
Service Provider:
Sprint~MyPlan (2 Lines 1000 Min, Free Roaming,Free Internet, Free Text, Free Pick 5, Free Mobile 2 Mobile, 25% Loyalty Discount, Free Nights & Weekends@5PM, 7$ Recurring Credit.) 80 Bucks. |
Sat Apr 19, 2008 2:17 pm |
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Like i said in some other post, if gsm was superior to cdma, why are gsm carriers worldwide, including att, looking at umts, a cdma technology, as thier next level of technology?
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Barciur
Posts: 250
Phone Model:
Nokia 5300
Service Provider:
T-Mobile USA/Plus GSM |
Sat Apr 19, 2008 2:59 pm |
| iowa wrote: | | Like i said in some other post, if gsm was superior to cdma, why are gsm carriers worldwide, including att, looking at umts, a cdma technology, as thier next level of technology? |
we are not looking at next level.
we are looking at GSM and CDMA used for voice.
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Shalalala
Posts: 662 |
Sat Apr 19, 2008 3:38 pm |
| iowa wrote: | | Like i said in some other post, if gsm was superior to cdma, why are gsm carriers worldwide, including att, looking at umts, a cdma technology, as thier next level of technology? |
You dummy. UMTS IS (based off of) GSM
W-CDMA IS (based off of) GSM
LOOK IT UP KID
| Quote: | W-CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) is a type of 3G cellular network. W-CDMA is the higher speed transmission protocol used in the Japanese FOMA system and in the UMTS system, a third generation follow-on to the 2G GSM networks deployed worldwide.
More technically, W-CDMA is a wideband spread-spectrum mobile air interface that utilizes the direct sequence Code Division Multiple Access signalling method (or CDMA) to achieve higher speeds and support more users compared to the implementation of time division multiplexing (TDMA) used by 2G GSM networks.
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To differentiate UMTS from competing network technologies, UMTS is sometimes marketed as 3GSM, emphasizing the combination of the 3G nature of the technology and the GSM standard which it was designed to succeed. |
| Quote: | UMTS combines the W-CDMA, TD-CDMA, or TD-SCDMA air interfaces, GSM's Mobile Application Part (MAP) core, and the GSM family of speech codecs. In the most popular cellular mobile telephone variant of UMTS, W-CDMA is currently used. Note that other wireless standards use W-CDMA as their air interface, including FOMA.
UMTS over W-CDMA uses a pair of 5 MHz channels. In contrast, the competing CDMA2000 system uses one or more arbitrary 1.25 MHz channels for each direction of communication. UMTS and other W-CDMA systems are widely criticized for their large spectrum usage, which has delayed deployment in countries that acted relatively slowly in allocating new frequencies specifically for 3G services (such as the United States).
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At the air interface level, UMTS itself is incompatible with GSM. UMTS phones and UMTS data cards sold in Europe, the United States, much of Asia, and South Africa, are UMTS/GSM dual-mode devices, hence they are backwards compatible with regular GSM networks. If a UMTS customer travels to an area without UMTS coverage, a UMTS phone will automatically switch to GSM (roaming charges may apply). If the customer travels outside of UMTS coverage during a call, the call may be transparently handed off to available GSM coverage where the relevant operator has enabled the Inter-RAT (Radio Access Technology) handover mechanism.
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| Quote: | | Over 120 licenses have already been awarded to operators worldwide (as of December 2004), specifying W-CDMA radio access technology that builds on GSM. |
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Shalalala
Posts: 662 |
Sat Apr 19, 2008 3:50 pm |
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Double post. Sorry
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