I don't think so. That sounds.. expensive. From what I know, and that's not much, it would be more an issue of resource allocation.
Once you leave the cell tower I think you are all digital (at least I assume so since frequency is expensive and analog would be a waste), just like how POTS is all digital once you hit the big telco switches. However, to allocate a voice channel the cell system probably has to set aside a set amount of resources, and those resources are probably much higher than for txt, even if txt has a lower priority. That's what I think at least.. :) -- Dustin Puryear President and Sr. Consultant Puryear Information Technology, LLC 225-706-8414 x112 http://www.puryear-it.com Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ Karthik Poobal wrote: > Don't they use different frequencies for data and voice? > > > > -- > Karthik Poobalasubramanian > Louisiana Board of Regents > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 225-910-6126 > > > > > > On Aug 29, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Petri Laihonen wrote: > >> Cell towers crap out first with Voice, not with data.... I guess >> data is easier to queue.... :-) >> Text messaging worked a lot longer than Voice.... And that's when >> majority learned that useful function in mobile world. >> >> I remember the first Mardi Gras after the cell phone boom arrived to >> US. I had no problems communicating at the same time people were >> complainin that their calls can not go through...... (I also >> expected that to happen......) >> >> In most cases it is the incompetence of the people in the stores >> provisioning the phones/plans rather than technology which fails. I >> have been a victim of that about 80% of the time..... Latest case >> being my iPhuck activation..... After they screwed up my wireless >> account yet again, it took me 6 hours on the phone over 3 separate >> days before it was activate. They could have done it the way I told >> them to do it, but no..... >> >> >> Petri >> >> >> -ray wrote: >>> >>> Several times this week, people have said "we should have some of >>> those cell cards for our laptops in case we lose internet!". I >>> reminded them that the cell towers were the first thing to crap out >>> during Katrina. >>> >>> Hopefully AT&T learned some things, and the infrastructure is >>> better now than it was 3 years ago. >>> >>> ray >>> >>> >>> On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Petri Laihonen wrote: >>> >>>> Even via mobile if it comes down to that.....�� I have multiple >>>> phones with multiple operators, so I'm not completely in the dark >>>> with my iPhuck.....� :-) >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> General mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > -- > This message was scanned by ESVA and is believed to be clean. > Click here to report this message as spam. > http://esva.puryear-it.com/cgi-bin/learn-msg.cgi?id= > > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
