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seilerbird
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Jerry, bless your heart, you are speaking Greek here. Maybe one in a hundred here will be able to comprehend what you are saying.
I'm going to disagree with this line of thought because I doubt if Verizon has brought on enough additional staff to cover 4G needs. I suspect much of the 4G staff (maintenance, engineering, etc.) came from those groups supporting 3G and 3G support is now getting the short end of the stick because I doubt if new staff is being brought in to replace the experience staff that were moved to 4G. I do agree that the technology and equipment involved is separate, but not the manpower supporting both. As to whether or not this might account for the increased connection drops, maybe si, maybe no.Ned said:And as Bernie states, 4G isn't replacing 3g, it's a whole new network with all new tower equipment and has no impact on the 3G service.
And since it's on 700MHz, it will tend to have better coverage over the 3G system on the same cell site, all other things being equal.Ned said:Jerry's point is the number of bars is not a good indicator of the signal quality. There is a lot more that affects SQ than just signal strength and bars is a very crude indicator of signal strength.
And as Bernie states, 4G isn't replacing 3g, it's a whole new network with all new tower equipment and has no impact on the 3G service.
I'm hoping they will move it to my area. We still have 1xRTT only towers around.seilerbird said:What I am wondering is what will happen to the 3G system once they have converted the entire network to 4G. Will they sell it to another company? Keep it for backup? Sell it on eBay?
According to the link Ned posted on comparison of 3G & 4G, 4G is 2-8GHz, not 700 MHz. So, which is it?JerArdra said:SVCJeff,
I should have mentioned that...thanks Jeff. 700 MHz used by 4G penetrates trees and so forth better than the higher frequencies used by 3g. That is why submarines use very low frequencies to penetrate through the very dense water.
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