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| Thread ID: 99256 | 2009-04-25 10:17:00 | Telecoms new xt mobile network | Hitech (9024) | PC World Chat |
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| 768356 | 2009-04-27 00:43:00 | Telecom has bought forward the launch date to may 13. www.stuff.co.nz |
Hitech (9024) | ||
| 768357 | 2009-04-27 01:56:00 | It's nice to see telecon moving on from the smoking wreck that is CDMA. I just hope they don't 'customize' the new GSM phones to the same extent that they do now. There's nothing wrong with CDMA. It was Telstra that dropped it in Ozz otherwise Telecom would not be upgrading. Also WCDMA that Telecom is using is not GSM.. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 768358 | 2009-04-27 01:59:00 | I prefer CDMA over the current generation GSM technology anyday. Probably because I do a lot of work around sound equipment... :p GSM is horrible for interference. GSM however is a much more globally standardised technology. For this reason international roaming is excellent with GSM. There is so much international roaming in Europe therefore GSM is used 100%. However CDMA isnt as internationally accepted. Great in your own country but if you want to travel somewhere else the chances are your CDMA phone wont work. Interestly, the GSM standards group have adopted WCDMA (Wideband CDMA) as the basis for the next version of GSM (i.e 3GSM). I suppose the debate doesnt really matter as we will all be using WCDMA in 10 years time. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 768359 | 2009-04-27 04:31:00 | Swine fever combines with Avian Flu. Pigs may fly, but it is unlikely that Telecom will do anything right from a user's perspective. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 768360 | 2009-04-27 06:03:00 | its just going to be a wcdma network, same as vodaphone has. I cant see how it can be faster.... That is because it is not exactly the same. It is newer, and infact the iphone will run faster on it than it will on vodafones network, due to the frequency it is using. Other handsets will also run faster. Also becuase the will have less people on it initally, it will be faster becuase there will be less users on it sharing the bandwidth. This will hopefully bring in some real competition, becuase many people with newer vodafone card, will simply be able to swap their sim cards over to telecom. |
robbyp (2751) | ||
| 768361 | 2009-04-27 11:11:00 | Yeah well CDMA phones aren't worth a damn and look like crap :p | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 768362 | 2009-04-27 11:47:00 | Yeah well CDMA phones aren't worth a damn and look like crap :p Eh? :p This (www.leaco.net) is my Telecom phone, love it. JK though, I know exactly what you mean. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 768363 | 2009-04-27 12:29:00 | That is because it is not exactly the same. It is newer, and infact the iphone will run faster on it than it will on vodafones network, due to the frequency it is using. Other handsets will also run faster. Also becuase the will have less people on it initally, it will be faster becuase there will be less users on it sharing the bandwidth. This will hopefully bring in some real competition, becuase many people with newer vodafone card, will simply be able to swap their sim cards over to telecom. I suppose faster phones will be good, unless you happen to be one of the people who talk slowly. Maybe the faster phones will let you hang up WELL before the called party answers, instead of today's practice of hanging up JUST before they answer. Or is it a cunning scheme to let the battery life get even shorter than some of the "smart" phones? I suppose that makes the charger more useful, the charge time will be twice the stand-by time perhaps? My current phone charges in a couple of hours to give an 8 day stand-by time. That's obviously far too slow to get to the next charge. :rolleyes: |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
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