Community update: The 850 MHz issue

Dave O'Connor doc at skynet.ie
Tue Nov 6 04:05:50 CET 2007


Howdy,
I'm in Vancouver too, just tested my phone (motorola L2) against the
850/1900 network and it works (registers with fido) while 900/1800
doesn't. You can only select them in those pairs but I'm not sure how
that will work on the neo.

Can anyone clarify some more?

Regards
Dave

On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 18:19 -0800, Justin Wong wrote:
> Quick (sorta stupid) question.  I'm in Vancouver, Canada.  What does
> not having 850 support mean?
> 
> Thanks,
> Justin
> 
> 
> On Nov 5, 2007 6:08 PM, Tupshin Harper <tupshin at gmail.com> wrote:
>         FWIW, I was planning on buying a GTA02 as soon as its
>         available, but no 
>         850 is a deal breaker since I would be using it on AT&T's
>         network in
>         California. I would certainly be willing to buy it without
>         900MHZ
>         support, though.
>         
>         -Tupshin
>         
>         
>         Michael Shiloh wrote:
>         > Unfortunately, this also affects the GTA02, which is now far
>         too close
>         > to production to try to enable quad-band operation.
>         >
>         > An 850/1800/1900MHz variant has been suggested but this is
>         not yet 
>         > determined.
>         >
>         > Michael
>         >
>         >
>         > Randall Mason wrote:
>         >> Will the GTA02 have the quad band board (full working quad
>         band
>         >> capabilities to end users)?
>         >>
>         >> On 11/5/07, *Michael Shiloh* < michael at openmoko.org
>         >> <mailto:michael at openmoko.org>> wrote:
>         >>
>         >>     Hello Community,
>         >>
>         >>     I've just arrived in Taiwan and have figured out the
>         quad band
>         >> issue.
>         >>
>         >>     The chipset is capable of quad band but the board was
>         laid out to 
>         >> only
>         >>     support 3 bands. So, 850Mhz is not supported on the
>         GTA01 board.
>         >> Instead
>         >>     we support 900/1800/1900MHz.
>         >>
>         >>     Anyone interested in more details is welcome to email
>         me. 
>         >>
>         >>     Michael
>         >>
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>         >>
>         >>
>         >>
>         >> --
>         >> Randall Mason
>         >> randall at mason.ch <mailto: randall at mason.ch>
>         >>
>         >>
>         >>
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