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Because covering lots of area where there aren't many customers is a superb investment.
But you need lots of area to get lots of customers!
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But you need lots of area to get lots of customers!
Not if you force your customers into a tiny area
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Because covering lots of area where there aren't many customers is a superb investment.
Area coverage is important, too -- just covering urban areas and main highways can leave travelers high-and-dry when long detours etal happen.
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with great vigor even!
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Area coverage is important, too -- just covering urban areas and main highways can leave travelers high-and-dry when long detours etal happen.
Not as much as you might think. It's pretty easy to put picocells up along highways, as there's probably an existing power infrastructure and poles you can hire space on. Covering bulk area means giving service to farmers in the middle of fields, and there's just not that many of them. I suppose it's probably easier in the mostly-fairly-flat Mid West than in the hillier parts of the US — large towers can serve quite an area — but economics will still win.
Let's face it, you don't really care about the service area, just whether you've got service when you want it.
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Not as much as you might think. It's pretty easy to put picocells up along highways, as there's probably an existing power infrastructure and poles you can hire space on. Covering bulk area means giving service to farmers in the middle of fields, and there's just not that many of them. I suppose it's probably easier in the mostly-fairly-flat Mid West than in the hillier parts of the US — large towers can serve quite an area — but economics will still win.
Let's face it, you don't really care about the service area, just whether you've got service when you want it.
You have a point there -- there's also a technology difference at play: from what I know, it's much easier to cover large areas with CDMA than it is with GSM...
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it's much easier to cover large areas with CDMA than it is with GSM...
That would explain why the US uses CDMA, which just doesn't exist in the UK
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danm,! alaska's huge!
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That would explain why the US uses CDMA, which just doesn't exist in the UK
Actually we use both, depending on the provider.
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Actually we use both, depending on the provider.
exactly. i'm on LTE right now. and HPSA when available (it isn't 99.9999% of the time as there are no HSPA towers anywhere near me and i don't go down to Boston frequently)
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i'm on LTE right now. and HPSA when available
That wasn't actually what I meant. Historically, AT&T and T-Mo were GSM, while Sprint & Verizon were CDMA. I'm not sure how LTE fits into this, but I'm pretty sure HPSA is GSM, because all AT&T did was rename their 3G HSPA network and start calling it 4G.
Edit: you stupid. (That's an attempt at dickweedery to go along with the pendantry.)
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does that look like an apropriate pennant for your pedantry? :-P
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does that look like an apropriate pennant for your pedantry?
I don't care as long as enough people flag my post!
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flagged then. :-P
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Excellent. The rest of you need to step up.
Edit: And I flagged the post, to "help", now that I know I can.
Edit2: Because of course there's no way to abuse that, like flagging all your own posts.
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Boo, I couldn't find an 1899 Cleveland Spiders pennant.
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Boo, I couldn't find an 1899 Cleveland Spiders pennant.
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where do I buy?
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I can't find the right thread to put this in because discosearch, but hay @arantor, this quote's for you:
" PHP's date() function has a format specifier 'B' which returns the Swatch Internet Time notation for a given time stamp."
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I'll send you a Dogecoin address via PM.
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I'm pretty sure HPSA is GSM
It's a little more convoluted than that, actually - if I remember correctly, 3G uses a variation of the GSM protocol, atop a [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W-CDMA_%28UMTS%29]WCDMA radio layer[/url]... So it has the radio performance/range of CDMA, but with protocol compatibility with GSM.