Monday, Jan 21, 2008 at 09:27
Well.. I don't think it's that
technical, but people use it to refer to the effect on radio waves at VHF and higher frequencies were coverage is essentially line of sight from the transmitting source. In practice, this coverage often extends somewhat further but there is a definite limit and the effect is much less on the frequencies used by mobile phones. One interesting aspect of the NextG technology is that it can actually work with the signal from several towers concurrently. (not much use in the country where you might be lucky to see one).
I have several of those dreaded chinese ZTE phones and while I have had some issues with them, lack of coverage was not one of them.
A few weeks ago we stayed on a farm near Taree which is located in a valley west of Nabiac. Mobile phone coverage there was always a problem and still is, however, I used my NextG phone as a modem that weekend and still managed to get a reasonable data rate on a high gain external antenna. The signal on my CDMA phone was no different, both showed 0 to 1 bar on the signal strength, the only difference was that with the nextG phone I could look at my emails, look at the rain radar (we were
camping and the
weather was of interest) and a whole lot more that could not be done with the CDMA phone.
So, people should just accept that technology moves on and for the most part NextG is
miles(km) ahead of the clunky old CDMA technology. Oh, and for those who like the "other" carriers, just look at their coverage maps for 3G services.
Cheers
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