Introduction The Welcome Thread !

welcome to the forum,

 

Ahhhh nifty...

Hello!

I've just started working in the wireless industry and have been looking for a site just like this! Nifty! I'm a peon data collector for lucent at the moment, but I'm hoping to bone up and get myself a better job in this arena...

As for actual owner ship... I've been resisting a cell phone for years but when UMTS comes out I may have to change my tune

So hello world!

Doug

 

Re: Ahhhh nifty...

Welcome! Stick around, this is a fun forum to hang around.

-Jay

 

Hello WA,
My cellphone industry experience started in 1987. Started my own company in 1992 also in this industry. We are very active with cellphone of both CDMA and GSM that are 2 years or older.

I look forward to learning more from this site about the new phones with so many data and media capabilities.

Pthmcdrmcd

 

Welcome on board,

we have a very mixed user base here at WA. Most people use CDMA but there are a number of us who use GSM.

 

Hello,

New to the site.

I still am under the old ATT plan and have the old Nokia 3560 phone with lots of grandfathered promotions and thus is why I have not converted to Cingular.

 

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Hi everyone !

I bought a Verizon / Audiovox xv6600 and am trying to learn the in's and out's of using it.

Very quickly I discovered that Pocket PC isn't the same as Windows and that having someone to answer questions could be _very_ helpful.

So the journey begins ...

(hopefully I can answer a few que
tions too)

cheers!

 

Welcome to all of you!

 

I know that GSM Towers throughtou Europe are in both the 900/1800Mhz range. Do you know of any site that: 1) Shows location of the towers Lat/Long and 2) shows whether the tower is transmitting at 900 or 1800 Mhz throughout Germany, though I am specifically interested in the Stuttgart area?

 

ShoresGuy is our europe rep. He lives in Germany. It's late afternoon there so he may be checking in soon.

-Jay

 

Hi THolschuh,

do you speak German?

1) There are a couple which might do the trick:

http://www.stuttgart.de/sde/content.php?objecttype=item&id=31015
http://emf.bundesnetzagentur.de/gisinternet/index.aspx?User=1000&Lang=de
http://www.nobbi.com/tables.htm
http://handy-world.com/ (Click on D1 for T-Mobile, D2 for Vodafone or E-Plus)

2) Not directly. With E-Plus and O2, you can always tell that you're on GSM 1800 or UMTS 2100 (3GSM - new 3rd Generation network standard deployed in Asia, Europe and in North America (UMTS 1900/eventually UMTS 850 and possibly UMTS 2100)). E-Plus and O2 have GSM 1800-only towers. The complication arises when you look at T-Mobile or Vodafone since they run most of their sites on GSM 900 and use GSM 1800 as backup/capacity sites as well as the new 3rd Generation UMTS 2100 standard (GSM 900/1800 is 2.5 GSM meaning the preceding generation).

Links to Cell Tower Lists for all of Germany by region/ZIP Code: http://www.senderliste.de

Hope this helps,

 

tripy here, cool place here!

Hello everyone.

 

Welcome on board tripy

 

Good to have you here, Tripy!!! Are you the same Tripy as on HoFo??? If so, even better!!!:O

 

Welcome! Its always cool to have new people come into the WA family.

-Jay

 

That would be me

I like the emotioncons over here better.

I'll try to contribute as much as I can.

 

im sure youll do fine, welcome

 

I'm sure you will contribute good info here!!! Welcome again!!!

 

Hello I;m new 2 this site so i'm still tryin 2 figure it out.

 

Wirelessly posted (Walkguru's: Nokia6682/2.0 (3.01.1) SymbianOS/8.0 Series60/2.6 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 UP.Link/6.3.0.0.0)

Welcome to wa.

 

Hello from Canada to all.

 

I'm not quite new to this forum but it's been a while since the last time I posted. Currently I live in So. Cali.

Well, I finally said bye to my AT&T account and joined Verizon wireless for RAZR V3c! So far so good.
I also have a Sidekick II with T-mo for data (that's the only one device that recognizes Japanese characters without modification, yes, I'm Japanese) and my family members share Cingular family plan.

I just wanted to say hi!!!

 

Hello,

I am new to this forum and would like to upgrade my phone (Samsung 475 / t-mobile). Any suggestion?

ctyim

 

Welcome,

ask in the T-Mobile User Group.

 

Welcome to all the new WA recruits I've missed since the last time I was here!!!

 

HEllo,
to everyone please to meet you all....

 

Good Evening, All!:browani:
I'm new to W.A. I'm an old hardline Tele gal, so I'm not only learning a lot about the "new world" but am NEEDING to! I live in Sonoma County, North of San Francisco, CA, & would LOVE to have better service.....in fact in many cases I'd love to have ANY service!!!!!!!!!! We used to call ourselves Telecom Valley, but it's the worst I've seen. I'm now a traveling Notary. I travel into Napa, Lake, & Mendocino COunties as well as the Bay, & in many semi rural areas ther e's none (as well as the great spot in the middle of the living room that's totally DEAD! (No it's not just me sleeping on the couch, my cell takes a nap, too!!! Tried Cingular GSM a year ago, 2 different phones, & took me a month to switch back to the old AT&T's TDMA, then 2 months to get thier billing system straightened out. I carry a Nokia 6560, still get lousy service, esp West of Hwy 101. Does ANYONE with technical expertise want to help me with this?? If I go to CDMA, what happens in the other counties? Anything upcoming on the horizon for technology here?

 

Hi DahJewel,

Welcome to WA. I hail from Redwood City on the Peninsula but I vividly recall Sonoma and Napa Counties (used to go camping up in Duncan Mills at the Casini Family Campground by the Russian River) as well as Bishop's Ranch up in Healdsburg. I'm living in Germany at the moment so my insight won't be as accurate since I've been away from Northern CA for a couple years.

Your best bet would be to compare Sprint Nextel (their CDMA network!! Nextel uses iDEN) vs Verizon for the core areas you travel into. I would think that GSM would be ok for areas like Santa Rosa and Rohnert Park but would have to say if you go up to slightly places like Lakeport or Shasta (extreme examples since the terrain there is different than in portions of the Bay Area as you head north towards Sonoma and Napa counties.

What will normally happen if your phone loses digital CDMA coverage, it will revert to analog (AMPS) coverage. This is called analog fallback and a cry back to the day when GSM, TDMA (which is what the 6560 supports in addition to AMPS) and CDMA didn't exist yet. Even though TDMA uses AMPS, you may experience coverage improvements with Sprint or Verizon if they have their CDMA/AMPS sites located closer to your travel locations than Cingular.

Cingular is starting to phase out TDMA since TDMA is due to shut off in a number of years (may take a long time). TDMA isn't offered to new customers anymore so they have to go with GSM (2.5 Generation) or Cingular's newer UMTS network which is a 3rd Generation/3G setup being expanded across the US.

In simple words, give CDMA a try to see that works better for you.

Good Luck

 

Hey all... like everyone else here I'm new to this thread, but a long time reader of posts here in wirelessadvisor. I currently have verizon but going to switch over to sprint just for the hell of it :browani: