ENS?

Sorry for this possibly stupid question, but what does ENS refer to?
Any replies appreciated.

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NavelGuy00 wrote:

> Sorry for this possibly stupid question, but what does ENS refer to?
> Any replies appreciated.


Expanded Network Selection

ENS-capable phones (also requires a 64K SIM) consider an orange and blue
network to be equal in preference. Whichever network the ENS-capable
phone locks on to, it's considered home territory.

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"Jer" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> NavelGuy00 wrote:
>
> > Sorry for this possibly stupid question, but what does ENS refer to?
> > Any replies appreciated.
>
>
> Expanded Network Selection


Nope. It actually stands for Enhanced Network Selection


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ENS may be good in some areas, but in mine, nope.

I live in Watertown, Mass. and Cingular has the best signal, on older
phones I could use the Cingular tower and have 5 bars all the time.

Now that I have the 64K sim and a phone to use it my signals are up and
down sometimes to only one bar, this is because I'm sent to an AT&T
tower, a real bummer!


Jiu JitSuperfly wrote:
> "Jer" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
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>>NavelGuy00 wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Sorry for this possibly stupid question, but what does ENS refer to?
>>>Any replies appreciated.
>>
>>
>>Expanded Network Selection
>
>
>
> Nope. It actually stands for Enhanced Network Selection
>
>
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> JJS
>
>

Jiu JitSuperfly wrote:

> "Jer" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
>>NavelGuy00 wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Sorry for this possibly stupid question, but what does ENS refer to?
>>>Any replies appreciated.
>>
>>
>>Expanded Network Selection
>
>
>
> Nope. It actually stands for Enhanced Network Selection
>


That's not the first time someone has pointed that out to me. I think
that's because, to me, "expanded" seems a better word for it's intended
benefits, considering more than one home network is involved.


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<snip>
>>ENS may be good in some areas, but in mine, nope.

I live in Watertown, Mass. and Cingular has the best signal, on older
phones I could use the Cingular tower and have 5 bars all the time.

Now that I have the 64K sim and a phone to use it my signals are up and
down sometimes to only one bar, this is because I'm sent to an AT&T
tower, a real bummer!
>>
> That's not the first time someone has pointed that out to me. I think
> that's because, to me, "expanded" seems a better word for it's intended
> benefits, considering more than one home network is involved.
>

Just a guess but AT&TW signal maybe GSM and the Cingular signal maybe TDMA
which is why the phone perfers blue AT&TW. The signals maybe on different
bands as well.

Stanley Reynolds wrote:

> <snip>
>
>>>ENS may be good in some areas, but in mine, nope.
>
>
> I live in Watertown, Mass. and Cingular has the best signal, on older
> phones I could use the Cingular tower and have 5 bars all the time.
>
> Now that I have the 64K sim and a phone to use it my signals are up and
> down sometimes to only one bar, this is because I'm sent to an AT&T
> tower, a real bummer!
>
>>That's not the first time someone has pointed that out to me. I think
>>that's because, to me, "expanded" seems a better word for it's intended
>>benefits, considering more than one home network is involved.
>>
>
>
> Just a guess but AT&TW signal maybe GSM and the Cingular signal maybe TDMA
> which is why the phone perfers blue AT&TW. The signals maybe on different
> bands as well.
>
>


hmmm.... I've not heard of a dual-mode phone that's also ENS capable,
not to say they don't exist, but the only ENS-capable phones I'm aware
of are GSM only phones, and all are considered brand new models. OTOH,
maybe ENS isn't as new as I've believed.

Can anyone offer a clue as to how long the ENS capability has been
around? I've always believed it's birthday was circa 4Q04, and I'd be
interested to know if I'm wrong.

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In <[email protected]> on Wed, 26 Jan 2005 00:19:58 -0600, Jer
<[email protected]> wrote:

>NavelGuy00 wrote:
>
>> Sorry for this possibly stupid question, but what does ENS refer to?
>> Any replies appreciated.
>
>Expanded Network Selection
>
>ENS-capable phones (also requires a 64K SIM) consider an orange and blue
>network to be equal in preference. Whichever network the ENS-capable
>phone locks on to, it's considered home territory.

That may be how it's supposed to work, but in practice (thus far at least) it
only allows the phone to be manually Homed OTA (over the air) to either blue
(ATTWS) or orange (Cingular). Roaming still applies to the other network.

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