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T39andcounting
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Posted: 2002-02-12 18:38
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I was chatting to a 'friend of a friend' in a bar the other day, who used to work for a uk phone company. He said that the bandwidth that some of the uk companies (inc. vodafone) use is going to be replaced soon, and their subscribers will need to move to a new bandwidth. He said that the only reason they havn't done this already was no-one has bought out the 4-band phone that you would need to use this bandwidth, and they didn't want to make all of their subscribers new phones obsolete until they'd sold them all.

Anyone else heard this? Is he just talking about 3G, or are they really going to make us all have to buy 4-band phones to be able to roam fully accross networks?
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Posted: 2002-02-12 21:09
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they have fullband phones ready but ife they would bring out them tere would be no nead for WCDA.
you just need a 3g phone that works on WCDA and you will have full roaming.
With Ericsson and Nokia gone: we must keep their spirits alive and buy JOLLA or YOTA
ipegot
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Posted: 2002-02-13 21:10
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That friend probaly ment the 2100mHz.
We all know the triple-band phones(900,1800 and 1900Mhz)The 2100Mhz will be used for UMTS
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Posted: 2002-02-13 22:39
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does anyone really travel all around the world . . . im stuck here . . . \\\bang///
nwmq1
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Posted: 2002-02-14 00:09
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I've heard that 450 MHz will be used for 3G here in Sweden... sounds strange...
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Posted: 2002-02-14 08:57
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Sending from phones and recieving in basestations will be in 1910-1980 MHz recieving in phones and sending from basestations will be in 2110-2170 MHz

This applies also in sweden.
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Posted: 2002-02-14 09:51
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Look here for the 850 MHz band :
http://press.nokia.com/PR/200107/828692_5.html
tao980
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Posted: 2002-10-14 16:10
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The 450 MHz band is now used experimentally in Romania to test CDMA in Europe. There is a new operator, Zapp Mobile (owned by Qualcomm) who is running the experimental CDMA network on 450 MHz. I've heard they reached to 153 kbps data capabilities. You can check this out yourselves at www.zapp.ro (click on 'English'). You have to admit that HSCSD and GPRS are quite far from this value, aren't they?
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Posted: 2002-10-14 16:16
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They already run on 800mhz in parts of south america-caribean

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Cytech
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Posted: 2002-10-14 16:20
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450MHz will not be used for 3G/UMTS in Sweden since this frequency is reserved for the NMT mobile network... and NMT will not shut down before 2008...
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