Actually, not this year only but when we were in the benelux area in 2001
the cellular coverage was superb even in the toolies and between mountains
...as to who owns the towers and who owns the transmission/reception
equipment, I don't know...there are several providers there as here
(proximus, orange, belgacom, etc.) and all are GSM and interoperable (which
explains some of the coverage excellence what with cdma and gsm not playing
together here ...) and one thing is absolutely great ...that is, when a gsm
caller makes a call only the caller pays whether it be to another gsm or to
a land line ...the recipient pays nothing. With that, with an expired go
card towards the end of my stay, I could be reached despite not being able
to make outcalls on my gsm. I went into the wilds and up mountains and had
5 bars everywhere and no dropped calls this year in the same area. I
suppose we don't deserve reasonable service here! Surely, one can get a
line anywhere in baghdad or kandahar!
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From: b_s-wilk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: iPhones Everywhere: sound quality
chad evans wyatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
Salient point. While traveling in Central Europe, signal seldom dips
below full reception. Little surprise: all providers use the same
robust gsm network, instead of erecting their own dedicated towers.
Phones here will get better and better, but with the chaos of separate
networks, we will plateau at a primitive stage of telecom. As with the
cramped and overpriced internet speed available here, this, too is a
tax on our economic well-being, as pointed out by many of you.
Two questions:
1- Who owns the gsm towers in Europe?
2- Are broadband networks also owned by the commons?
2.5 - Think broadband and mobile providers will ever cooperate and give
us better speeds/service at a reasonable price [charges now are NOT
reasonable]?
Even in the poorest less populated regions in Europe--Greece,
Portugal--the networks and reception are excellent, and yes, even in the
mountains, far from towns. We were here,
http://catharcastles.info/120716_peyrepertuse.htm, and my phone had all
bars, but not at my house in Maryland.
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