 digiblurGot Sipura?Premium
join:2002-06-03
Louisiana | See this all the time I was always told this was an issue with the way GSM works with large groups in one area.
I know I've let people borrow my Sprint phone several times during large population events. Their AT&T phone wouldn't dial out at all. Mine was a little delayed in connecting than normal by a few seconds but it worked just fine every time.
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 TransmasterDon't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
2 edits | It is for reasons like this that in an emergency for wireless communications the Hamradio operator with a 2 meter Handy Talky can be depended on to get a message through. No there is no twittering on a iPhone but at least the traffic gets through. Back in the mobile phone days, this is before cell phones, Bell Telephone built their systems with what one friend of mine who used to service this network called obscene amounts of backup. The Bell system built it to be as close to the reliability of their POTS as possible with wireless communication as it was done in those days. Now with Cell phones, cut throat competition, and little in the way of Government standards of performance a cell system only needs to work when things are mostly normal for everything else the Telcos have found it cheaper to make up excuses. 
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 tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
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said by digiblur:I was always told this was an issue with the way GSM works with large groups in one area. I know I've let people borrow my Sprint phone several times during large population events. Their AT&T phone wouldn't dial out at all. Mine was a little delayed in connecting than normal by a few seconds but it worked just fine every time. has nothing to do with GSM. Has everything to do with cheap networking.
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join:2001-02-14
Brooklyn, NY
1 edit | Exactly. I'm originated from Europe and it's a fairly common practice to deploy mobile relay stations for bigger festivals (island Festival f.e.) which works perfectly fine.
GSM scales VERY WELL, in fact - it's just AT&T being a greedy PoS cheap corp, that's all.
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