On Sat, 25 Dec 2021 17:38:54 -0800 Steve Allen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Did everyone involved in designing the hardware and software > intend that phone to have precise time? > > https://www.jwz.org/blog/2010/07/what-at-t-doesnt-run-ntpd/ JWZ was/is US based. Cellphones developed in the US quite differently than in Europe. Not only did the US switch to digital cellphone systems about half a decade after Europe, there were also multiple different standards by different carriers competing. Often with very different feature sets in their protocols. This competition slowed down technological development in the US quite considerably and lead to many secondary features, that the rest of the world already enjoyed, to be left out. You can still feel this today, when you look at who are the main actors of cellphone standards. Most of these people are still concentrated in Europe (Nokia, Ericson, etc) and Japan (NTT, KDDI). But we are digressing from the time-nutty things... Attila Kinali -- The driving force behind research is the question: "Why?" There are things we don't understand and things we always wonder about. And that's why we do research. -- Kobayashi Makoto _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] -- To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to and follow the instructions there.
