Community update: The 850 MHz issue

Joe Dluzen jdluzen at gmail.com
Tue Nov 6 16:44:06 CET 2007


I too am on the must have 850 list.

Unfortunately not all companies provide their individual coverage maps
on that site, but the large PDFs
http://www.coveragemaps.com/gsmposter_americas.htm and
http://www.coveragemaps.com/gsmposter_world.htm look to be a composite
of all the GSM providers, some of which add to the 850 range. I'm
aiming for T-Mobile, and luckily they have 850 roaming agreements with
companies that are in the areas in which I travel.

j

On Nov 5, 2007 9:36 PM, Jon <openmoko at snowulf.com> wrote:
> On Nov 5, 2007 6:23 PM, Michael Shiloh <michael at openmoko.org> wrote:
>
> > That's a good point, Tupshin. You (and the community) can guide us as we
> > try to figure out how to proceed.
> >
> > How many of you must have 850 MHz support, and would be satisfied with
> > an 850/1800/1900MHz variant, and how many of you  must have full
> quad-band?
> >
> > Please put your answers on
> >
> > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Talk:November_6%2C_2007_Community_Update
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
>
> I've already put myself down on the list for the 850 tri-mode.  That'll work
> "good nuff" for me.  But I also did some digging around on GSM  World to
> hopefully answer my questions and others.  If you take a quick look at
> http://www.gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo/cou_us.shtml which is the US list
> for GSM based operators, you will see it is universally 850 or 1900 (or
> both).  In the case of AT&T you can take a quick look at the two coverage
> maps:  850:  http://www.gsmworld.com/cgi-bin/ni_map.pl?cc=us&net=b2  and
> 1900:  http://www.gsmworld.com/cgi-bin/ni_map.pl?cc=us&net=be
>
> From what I can see in the maps for AT&T is that 850mhz isn't as well rolled
> out, but where it is, has better coverage.  1900mhz is better deployed, but
> seems to be spotty when it comes to the fringes.  But the short version is
> that without 850 access on the moko, I personally would be unable to use
> half the towers around here.  I'm going to go as far as saying that 850 is
> critical for U.S. GSM.
>
> I'd suggest everyone find their country on GSM World:
> http://www.gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo/index.shtml and check their
> providers.  Unfortunately some of the maps don't differentiate between 850
> and 1900 (for example Rogers Wireless in Canada).  The other two Canadian
> carriers listed, and the Mexican seem to be 1900 only.  So it looks like the
> US just wants to be different, as usual.
>
> -Jon
>
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