Re: OT: Cellular telephone service

Thanks Scot

The phone is question is the Motorola V220. With a bit of googling I found the following:

When it came to RF performance the V220 behaved almost the same as the V300. When tested at 850 MHz it performed extremely well, and it even bested my Siemens A56 by a small but noticeable margin. At 1900 MHz however, the performance of the phone was rather below that of my 1900-MHz-only Nokia 6310i. On Rogers this will usually not be an issue, since the Rogers network is setup to pass you over to 850 MHz once the signal gets below a certain threshold anyway.

You�d normally never be in a situation where you had to rely on the phone�s ability to pick up a really weak 1900 MHz signal. There are exceptions to this however, including a number of indoor locations (such as Square One) that are primarily covered by 1900-MHz-only indoor repeaters. In parts of the mall where signals from outdoor 850 MHz sites are not present, the V220 will perform more poorly than a phone like the Nokia 6310i. If you unlock the phone to use on Fido you�ll definitely notice the poorer performance of the 1900 MHz receiver of the V220, as that�s the only frequency that Fido works on.

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This and the fact that his office is in the lower level of the College Bldg might the problem. I don't quite understand the locked and unlocked business but I'll looking.

Eve

----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Wunsch <slg@tracking.wunsch.org>
Date: Tuesday, September 5, 2006 2:48 pm
Subject: Re: OT: Cellular telephone service

> On Tue, 05-Sep-2006 at 12:36:08 -0600, Eve Kotyk wrote:
>
> > he works in is concrete (or at least I'm assuming it is). His
> > coworkers can use their cells in that building but he can't. Is
> this a
> > provider problem or is this a cellphone problem?
>
> It could be either :-). It might mean that all his co-workers have
> phones that use SaskTel's CDMA network, and SaskTel has a closer
> tower.Alternatively, it might mean that he has an older Rogers
> phone that
> doesn't support the 850MHz GSM frequency. 850MHz, being a lower
> frequency, has better in-building penetration than 1900MHz.
>
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Received on Tue Sep 5 15:39:46 2006