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Miss UK
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Hmm stop changing the subject 
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knight4led
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@miss uk, I live in El Salvador for the time being. I'll be here until roughly July or August 2008.
@rambo, stop complaining about the deplorable phone situation in the US. I agree as a developed nation we should have a better phone system, but it has as much to do with the FCC as it does with the carriers. The FCC rarely opens up phone bands and restricts what bands are in use. That is what caused our problems with different bands. Carriers carry what they assume will make them money and most manufacturers are not in any rush to build lots of advanced phone for a small market dominated by two GSM carriers with alternate bands and looking for competitive distribution deals.
Still the situation there in the US is way better than 75% of the world. Here cell phone technology has usurped traditional phones because the cost of development is much cheaper and to an extent the costs can be dished off on the consumer. With cell towers you put it up and thats it, lots of customers now have access if they choose to buy a handset. However here few parts even have GPRS let alone EDGE and 3G is just unthinkable since most areas have spotty reception. Price gouging is huge here since El Salvador adopted the dollar as the official currency. And even though I am not quite paying US prices for my minutes, it comes close. All this in a country woefully underemployed and under payed.
So I say count your blessings. Right now I'm getting by with my old T616 because for some reason El Sal has the 850 band. And still my phone seems like a technological monster compared to all the nokia 1100s floating around.
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Hlcn Twst
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It's not all the FCC's fault. The 900, 1800, and 2100 MHz bands were already occupied by other users in the US before mobile telephony came along. They did the best they could with what little they had.
I blame the world GSM Association. I bet they deliberately picked GSM frequencies know to be available everywhere except the US. And now we're particularly screwed when it comes to 3G. Even more so since each of our 2 (!) carriers purchased completely different spectra 
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Residentevil
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Well we have to see which 3G band tmob is deploying this year.
850band in El Salvador. They probably bougth old, used towers from Cingular, now the new AT&T (again)
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Marino
Joined: Aug 31, 2005
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@ Hlcn
I agree with you, its not all the FCC’s fault on the North America UMTS spectrum. When the GSM world decided to operate on 2100 MHz, that spectrum is already been allocated to military & commercial satellite band.
Were not (particularly) screwed when it comes to 3G we have HSDPA at the speed of 1.8, 3.6, 7.2 and 14.4 Mbit/s downlink, we’re just not compatible with the European units.
@ Resident
I don’t think T-mobile will buy any Cingular old and use towers because they are operating at (UMTS/HSDPA) 850/1900 MHz band. According to eWeek article "T-Mobile will announce UMTS on 1700 MHz and 2100 MHz," said analyst Roger Entner, vice president of the London-based research and consulting company Ovum.
Entner said that the U.S. frequencies are different from those in Europe and elsewhere, and for that reason, T-Mobile's UMTS solution will work only in the United States until new devices with multiple frequency support are developed, despite the fact that UMTS is a global standard.
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Residentevil
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Happy Memorial Day to everybody.
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Residentevil
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Man it was hot today. 95F or 35C. Puhhhu.
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knight4led
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Ouch, thats pretty hot. I hope its not humid in addition.
Yesterday was so humid that while I was out hiking, my sweat didn't dry for 5 hours. Then when I finally got home it started to pour rain. Hot, humid and rainy is not my favorite combination. |
Marino
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Good news for those who uses AT&T for international texting, 10 cents a message. |
RichLok
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Hi everybody!!!  |
Residentevil
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Hi richlok
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Hlcn Twst
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On 2007-05-31 16:11:39, knight4led wrote:
Ouch, thats pretty hot. I hope its not humid in addition.
Yesterday was so humid that while I was out hiking, my sweat didn't dry for 5 hours. Then when I finally got home it started to pour rain. Hot, humid and rainy is not my favorite combination.
That's the only good thing about living in {undisclosed location} - the air is nice and dry. Of course, it's also filled with dirt, and when it rains, it rains {undisclosed location}.
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knight4led
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{undisclosed location} sounds pretty nice most of the year.
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RichLok
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How has everyone been? I see some familiar faces but others are missing.... |
Hlcn Twst
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Hey y'all, buy my W300i - factory unlocked and completely unbranded, and running Americas-1 firmware 
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Posted: 2007-05-12 00:15
