Sprint O well

I travel a lot and the world standard GSM. Now the biggest service in the
USA is GSM. The handwriting is on the wall. I have never had a problem
with SPrint but it is time to switch

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So go for it. We don't really care if you do or not. But thanks for
telling us, ya dumbass....


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> I travel a lot and the world standard GSM. Now the biggest service in the
> USA is GSM. The handwriting is on the wall. I have never had a problem
> with SPrint but it is time to switch

me wrote:
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> I travel a lot and the world standard GSM. Now the biggest service in the
> USA is GSM. The handwriting is on the wall. I have never had a problem
> with SPrint but it is time to switch

How do you define "biggest?"

Notan

me wrote:
> I travel a lot and the world standard GSM. Now the biggest service in the
> USA is GSM. The handwriting is on the wall. I have never had a problem
> with SPrint but it is time to switch


Says you. Good luck with your GSM phone by the way. Its life is
limited, as GSM systems are migrating to UMTS, and UMTS will ultimately
be running on W-CDMA:

http://www.3gamericas.org/English/Te...enter/umts.cfm

Also, even going by your flawed logic, Nextel is a prime example of how
a carrier can succeed just fine using a niche standard (iDEN). Though
even they have considered switching to CDMA from time to time.


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me wrote:
> I travel a lot and the world standard GSM. Now the biggest service in the
> USA is GSM. The handwriting is on the wall. I have never had a problem
> with SPrint but it is time to switch

What kind of idiot switches cellular carriers just because the one he's
switching to is *bigger*?

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On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:43:04 +0000, me wrote:

> I travel a lot and the world standard GSM. Now the biggest service in the
> USA is GSM. The handwriting is on the wall. I have never had a problem
> with SPrint but it is time to switch

What handwriting? That all the gsm providers will be upgrading to cdma
tech? I don't know what you are using to define the biggest service in
the USA but I would not think it to be coverage.

Central wrote:

> What handwriting? That all the gsm providers will be upgrading to cdma
> tech? I don't know what you are using to define the biggest service in
> the USA but I would not think it to be coverage.

What people fail to realize is that:

1. Carriers in Europe are using GSM only because it is a state-mandated
protocol, not necessarily because it's better, and

2. The current implementation of GSM in the US happened because it was
viewed as a quick and dirty stepping-stone from the rapidly-fading
IS-136/TDMA systems that many of these carriers had in place prior.
TDMA was a dead-end technology. GSM however was cheaper than
immediately migrating to CDMA for these carriers (and I emphasize
cheaper, not better). It was a stopgap measure to offer GPRS data when
they otherwise couldn't with TDMA, to match the CDMA carriers who were
already offering the same things.

Of course, a lot of people still swear by GSM, because even if it isn't
technically more advanced, it's just more widely used. If the cellular
industry in the US went by that logic, we'd all still be using AMPS
phones. Mediocrity should never be adopted simply because it's the norm.

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