Vodafone New Zealand operating an entire EDGE data network without anyone else actually knowing...

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#87261 19-Sep-2007 21:07

Sigh! I know they're different! I was kidding :( No-one picked up on the Wireless CDMA though... :P

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#87262 19-Sep-2007 21:08

lduncan: I think you just missed that joke...

The WCDMA (Wireless CDMA) joke was created here on Geekzone making fun of the NZ Herald article... As for GPRS = EDGE comment, if it was a joke, well, as he says, we would need at least a ;-) at the end to make it...

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#87263 19-Sep-2007 21:10

the difference between GPRS and EDGE

from the horses mouth so to speak.....

http://www.gsmworld.com/technology/index.shtml

yeah...I missed the joke too....(sorry, sorry, sorry....)

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#87264 19-Sep-2007 21:11

Haha - as I said, bloody lack of body language :-(

Anyway, where's Mr Brislen, King of Vodafone, to clean up the mess?

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#87265 19-Sep-2007 21:12

Humph, I think you're missing the point. My 'Mobile Broadband' HSDPA service runs more like it's on an EDGE network. I fallback to 80kbps regularly.....

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#87266 19-Sep-2007 21:27

sbiddle: And the fact not a single Vodafone network has ever deployed EDGE. The group has a whole have never been interested.

I personally installed EDGE equipments for Vodafone in Europe. But then they didnt turn on. Instead they deployed 3G.
I remember we made almost every BTS EDGE capable in that country and they never switched on. What a vaste of money.

I is a kollege stoodent. Bee nice.

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#87267 19-Sep-2007 21:33

And Vodafone NZ has no EDGE. I am running email and other data applications on my N95 and I've never seen E displayed when I was on the GSM network. Not once.

I is a kollege stoodent. Bee nice.

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#87268 19-Sep-2007 21:37

Aloha:
sbiddle: And the fact not a single Vodafone network has ever deployed EDGE. The group has a whole have never been interested.

I personally installed EDGE equipments for Vodafone in Europe. But then they didnt turn on. Instead they deployed 3G.
I remember we made almost every BTS EDGE capable in that country and they never switched on. What a vaste of money.

But most of the new gear is EDGE capable by default isn't it? I know that a lot of Vodafone NZ's sites deployed over the past few years are all capable of EDGE.

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#87269 19-Sep-2007 21:47

sbiddle:
But most of the new gear is EDGE capable by default isn't it? I know that a lot of Vodafone NZ's sites deployed over the past few years are all capable of EDGE.

At that time (back in 2000) we had to install a separate HW for EDGE. I don't know now as I don't work with GSM anymore.

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#87270 19-Sep-2007 21:59

Now the page doesnt say edge, just A 2G GPRS data network on 900MHz - so clearly they either said something prematurely, or it was a cockup by someone copying and pasting from some other site.

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#87271 19-Sep-2007 22:01

... someone's working late tonight. ;-)

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#87272 19-Sep-2007 22:03

Aloha: I don't know now as I don't work with GSM anymore.

Hmmm. Snob!

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#87277 19-Sep-2007 22:28

(okay I was just lazy to check it in the user manual)

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#87298 20-Sep-2007 07:46

tonyhughes: Its actually all to do with a cover-up involving the US Military, a missing nuke, Steve Fossetts supposed disappearance, the number 42, spam, bacon, eggs, spam, spam, sausage, spam, sausage, egg, spam, Diana, and the 5th Beatle (a UK government-trained pianist named Ernest).

But not baked beans of course. Baked beans are off.

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#87305 20-Sep-2007 08:10

willnz: GRPS and EDGE is the same thing. Just like this WCDMA (Wireless CDMA) nonsense. Jeez guys!

Very different,

And W-CDMA does not denote 'wireless CDMA', but actually "Wide-band CDMA" IIRC

(and after posting this, read the next page and saw your other reply :-P )

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