Unruh wrote: > "Richard B. Gilbert" <[email protected]> writes: > >> Unruh wrote: >>> "Richard B. Gilbert" <[email protected]> writes: >>> >>>> Harlan Stenn wrote: >>>>> The time on my cellphone is routinely more than 3 seconds off of GPS time. >>>> Is your cell phone "CDMA"? Other technologies, there are several, may >>>> not require the precise timing that CDMA does! >>> It will be hard for them to get CDMA in London, or Paris, or in fact >>> anywhere in the world except >>> N America. >>> > >> Being a citizen of, and resident in, the U.S.A. I tend to supply answers >> relevant to the U.S.A. AFAIK, Harlan is also a citizen and resident. > >> As I mentioned, there ARE other technologies. Technologies ofter than >> CDMA are used both here and abroad. Verizon Wireless is one of the >> largest service providers here and they use CDMA. > > But since the OP about whom this whole thread is all about seems to be with a > worldwide company, > the answer may be less relevant for him. > >> So far, my CDMA phones have been able to make and receive calls >> everywhere I've been since I bought my first digital phone. > > I guess you don't travel much. > > >> FWIW, I believe that Japan and Korea also use CDMA. > > Different frequencies etc. I believe. I think neither US nor European phones > word there. > But I have never been there to try. > >
I don't travel excessively! I live in NJ and travel to/through PA, DE, MD, NY, CT, MA. The parts of these states I have been to/through all seem to have adequate cell phone coverage although I'm sure that there must be a few places without it; I haven't found them yet. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
