iPhone 3G S - Vodafone or Telecom?

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BigFella

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#223662 10-Jun-2009 16:19

daman88:

Most of the countries are now adopting W850 network or 850 MHZ frequency because it has better coverage and better voice quality.

You couldn't be more wrong - Telcos around the world aren't "choosing" to adopt a frequency, they are using what they already have - in NZ Telecom have used 800/850 so they had no choice but to move to UMTS850. LIkewise, it made sense for Vodafone to run with UMTS900.

900 is the dominant frequency worldwide and will be for quite a while to come - 850 was never widely adopted outside of the Americas and AU/NZ.

Comments are my own, don't blame my employer...

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#223718 10-Jun-2009 19:35

mattlaing: Hi Plasmaglows,

The GPS system is completely independent to which carrier it is with. Any changes to your GPS performance can only be coincidental to shifting to the XT network.

I was with Telecom and switched to Vodafone this time last year - to get the iPhone. I was surprised how bad the network coverage seemed.

I just switched back to the XT network and it seems a lot clearer and is a lot more consistent than 3g on Vodafone.

If Vodafone were clever (or dumber in terms of alienating customers), they would work out a way to "lock" the new phones to their network. (Exclusivity)

That would be my nightmare...

My other half and I both find Vodafone coverage in Christchurch apalling.
Constantly experiencing either no signal,dropped calls or very poor call quality.

Luckily since arriving back from the ultra cheap and competitive UK market we are still on pre pay here until we finalise which network to go with.

I hope Telecom is better because to be honest im not loving the Vodafone experience so far.

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#223751 10-Jun-2009 21:23

^ there is about 9 2100 cell sites. Then they decided to go 850.

Why does the GPs take longer on XT?
I read that they don't support A-GPS, does Vodafone?

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#223752 10-Jun-2009 21:23

BigFella:
daman88:

Most of the countries are now adopting W850 network or 850 MHZ frequency because it has better coverage and better voice quality.

You couldn't be more wrong - Telcos around the world aren't "choosing" to adopt a frequency, they are using what they already have - in NZ Telecom have used 800/850 so they had no choice but to move to UMTS850. LIkewise, it made sense for Vodafone to run with UMTS900.

900 is the dominant frequency worldwide and will be for quite a while to come - 850 was never widely adopted outside of the Americas and AU/NZ.

Whilst I agree with your sentiments, you have to admit both Voda and Telecom HAVE made a choice - they could have deployed 3G UMTS2100 networks everywhere (as they do in Europe), but instead they have chosen a more cost-effective strategy using the lower frequency band.

In fact it is interesting that some European operators are lobbying their regulator to allow the use of UMTS in the 900 MHz band, to the dismay of some of their competitors without rights in the 900 band who invested signifficant $$ in the 2100MHz freq that was required for 3G

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#223838 11-Jun-2009 07:18

BigFella: 900 is the dominant frequency worldwide and will be for quite a while to come - 850 was never widely adopted outside of the Americas and AU/NZ.

900 MHz is dominant in GSM/GPRS. In WCDMA the dominant frequency has been 2100 MHz because in Europe they didn't have 900 MHz available for use on WCDMA because it's been already taken by GSM.

Very different things GSM and WCDMA/UMTS.

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