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#16006 19-Sep-2007 19:38
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So whats the deal. Everyone says they are not running one. No one has seen it. No one has used it. VFNZ employees have been spotted on the forum saying there isnt one, and wont be one, no press releases. But plain as day, the website states they are running an Edge network.

Uh-oh...







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  #87235 19-Sep-2007 19:45
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And no phones out there that are EDGE capable are displaying E to indicate that.



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  #87236 19-Sep-2007 19:48
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The iPhone displays the "E" symbol. This is probably just by default... unless Vodafone are keeping secrets?






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  #87239 19-Sep-2007 19:53
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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).









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#87241 19-Sep-2007 19:58
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I suspected as much.






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  #87244 19-Sep-2007 20:09
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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).

You forget the involvement of emos, a group of republican senators, Terresa Gattung and the open source community. The usual suspects in a good conspiracy

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#87247 19-Sep-2007 20:21
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AND they were all spotted on the grassy knoll! (a CSR I spoke too swears it's true)!

 
 
 
 

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#87248 19-Sep-2007 20:23
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I think that the government should immediately impose regulations on the industry to ensure that Econet...uh, I mean NZ Communications...has access to that EDGE network.

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  #87249 19-Sep-2007 20:24
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And the fact not a single Vodafone network has ever deployed EDGE. The group has a whole have never been interested.

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#87250 19-Sep-2007 20:31
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I have to say that a couple of times my Treo 750v showed "E" instead of "G" or "3G". Could be a glitch on the firmware though because it went away as quickly as it showed up...




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#87252 19-Sep-2007 20:52
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GRPS and EDGE is the same thing. Just like this WCDMA (Wireless CDMA) nonsense. Jeez guys!

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  #87255 19-Sep-2007 21:00
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willnz: GRPS and EDGE is the same thing. Just like this WCDMA (Wireless CDMA) nonsense. Jeez guys!


No it's not. EDGE is quite a significant upgrade from GPRS.

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#87257 19-Sep-2007 21:01
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willnz: GRPS and EDGE is the same thing. Just like this WCDMA (Wireless CDMA) nonsense. Jeez guys!


I suggest you look for some information. GPRS is very different of EDGE. EDGE provides you with up to four times the GPRS speeds, based on a different timing and slot utilisation.

They are VERY different.




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  #87258 19-Sep-2007 21:01
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I think you just missed that joke...






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  #87259 19-Sep-2007 21:03
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Haha - damn the Internet and it's lack of body language!

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#87260 19-Sep-2007 21:06
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Packet_Radio_Service

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Data_Rates_for_GSM_Evolution




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