Interesting perspective.

Post #38,583 by static 5/14/02 8:05:27 AM Reply	Interesting perspective. I'll admit what I posted was from memory. That includes remembering that the US seemed strongly inclined to disdain GSM as a system and that the third GSM band was added partly because the second clashed with other US cell-phone tech. But both facts might well be distorted. OTOH, I do recall the multi-system craziness in the US was widely regarded as the height of lunacy. :-) Analog in AU was AMPS. If it isn't switched off yet, then it nearly is because GSM licenses were issued with a guarantee that the AMPS system would be switched off on Jan 1, 2001 (there was a legal challenge to the switch off). Wade. "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
Post #38,726 by tonytib 5/14/02 11:30:26 PM Reply	If you're really interested in who is using what tech & freq This is an incomplete but interesting starting place: [link\|http://sms.bigfoot.com/index.php?pages=networks\|Bigfoot SMS partners] Bigfoot.com is offering SMS text messaging from a PC to most phones. I might be interested in using it if I knew more than one person who uses SMS. What makes it interesting is that they list the technology and frequency (in hundreds of MHz), although it's not complete (e.g. they miss the biggest US carrier, Verizon). Also, I should note I'm really not a cellular geek; OTOH, I do have an uncle who's spent over thirty years in radio and cell phones. Tony
Post #38,732 by Meerkat 5/15/02 12:29:21 AM 5/15/02 12:56:06 AM Reply	Find some Aussies - practically everyone here uses SMS. [link\|http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4279708%5E15328%5E%5Enbv%5E15306%2D15320,00.html\|This article] mentions that there are about 200 million SMS message sent every day in Australia. It's a regular SMS frenzy here, and most other countries that have inter-carrier SMS, or just a nice big monopoly :) Edit: Very timely that I happened to be browsing the site with the SMS stats :) On and on and on and on, and on and on and on goes John. Edited by Meerkat May 15, 2002, 12:56:06 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #38,759 by static 5/15/02 8:34:59 AM Reply	Always try the obvious first. [link\|http://www.gsm.org/\|GSM Association], in particular, [link\|http://www.gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo/index.shtml\|this page] which is the page I found when curious two years ago about whether my GSM phone would work in Japan (it wouldn't). That BigFoot page is rather good, BTW. And you do know more than one person who uses SMS - Meerkat and I both qualify :-). Wade. "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
Post #42,566 by CRConrad 6/17/02 4:41:34 AM Reply	With Peter W. and me, you know at least four SMS users! :-)

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