From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 21 19:20: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE1FA37B402 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 19:19:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 27FDD6AC18; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 13:49:46 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 13:49:46 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Brad Knowles Cc: "Michael C . Wu" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mobile phone coverage (was: VCD (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c)) Message-ID: <20010122134946.P3066@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200101211447.f0LElEk04073@mobile.wemm.org> <20010121145018.A73989@citusc17.usc.edu> <20010121165422.A44505@peorth.iteration.net> <20010121181251.B44819@peorth.iteration.net> <20010121184810.A45428@peorth.iteration.net> <20010122123518.L3066@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 03:42:45AM +0100 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday, 22 January 2001 at 3:42:45 +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 12:35 PM +1030 2001/1/22, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> That's not the issue here. BTW, for the USA you need a three-band >> phone. That is, incidentally, the only kind of phone which will work >> just about anywhere (I'm not sure about Israel and Korea). > > Uhh, I think you need more than that. Let's count: > > AMPS/NAMPS > US TDMA (1900Mhz? 900Mhz?) > US CDMA (1900Mhz? 900Mhz?) > US GSM (1900Mhz) > European GSM (900Mhz/1800Mhz) I'm not saying "use *every* technology". Take GSM there and you have 900, 1800 and 1900 MHz. > To which you will be able to add W-CDMA, with the advent of > the 3G networks. Of course, this doesn't begin to address the needs > for analog coverage outside the US -- this is just a list of the > different technologies and frequencies of which I am personally > acquainted. I'd love to see this list get expanded. Where else are analogue technologies still in use? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message