From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 21 20:31:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from peorth.iteration.net (peorth.iteration.net [208.190.180.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C01CA37B400 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 20:31:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by peorth.iteration.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 94B3F575AB; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:31:31 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:31:31 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" To: Greg Lehey Cc: "Michael C . Wu" , Brad Knowles , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mobile phone coverage (was: VCD (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c)) Message-ID: <20010121223131.C45892@peorth.iteration.net> Reply-To: "Michael C . Wu" Mail-Followup-To: "Michael C . Wu" , Greg Lehey , Brad Knowles , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <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> <20010121211008.A45892@peorth.iteration.net> <20010122135650.Q3066@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: <20010122135650.Q3066@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:56:50PM +1030 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5025 F691 F943 8128 48A8 5025 77CE 29C5 8FA1 2E20 X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x8FA12E20 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:56:50PM +1030, Greg Lehey scribbled: | On Sunday, 21 January 2001 at 21:10:08 -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote: | > You can find out more about W-CDMA and 3G phones in | > the Artech House Publishers' "Mobile Communications Series" of books. | > I have the entire collection. :) | | I've been looking at web pages, and it doesn't sound to me that 3G is | a new transmission technology, just something that climbs on the back | of one. Is there any reason why it should be tied to CDMA and not to | GSM? It is not a very new technology. However, I should point out to you that GSM is a totally different layer from CDMA. CDMA handles the transmission, GSM is more like our authentification scheme. | > There are less regulation and much greater demand for the technology | > in Asia. In many Asian countries, (.jp, .tw, .hk, .sg), it averages | > to two or three cell phones for the entire population. | | Nonsense, I've seen dozens of mobile phones in cramped places. I'd | guess that just about everyone has one. Are you thinking of Bhutan or | Aden, maybe? I know it is true for Japan and Taiwan at least. -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message