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join:2001-01-15
Milpitas, CA
1 edit | reply to Guspaz
Re: Sure said by Guspaz:Not so easy when you consider that the phone will simply pick the strongest signal it can find, regardless of what country it's in. Since the vast majority of the Canadian population lives within something like 150KM of the US border, you can imagine that there are occasions where your phone will decide that a US tower has a better signal than a Canadian tower, and boom; you're paying US roaming rates for usage in Canada! Doesn't the GSM protocol have the notion of priorities among candidate systems? With CDMA, the Preferred Roaming List prioritizes various systems, with the phone hanging onto a higher priority system until it is essentially unusable, no matter if a lower priority system has a much stronger signal. |
