Generally, my rule of thumb is that rural places have more 850MHz, urban places have the 1900MHz. The only place I would usually see 850MHz was on road trips, but now that I live on the North Shore, there is only about 50% coverage for 1900MHz (and it's always like 1 bar).
<br><br>Randall (ClashTheBunny)<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Shiloh</b> <<a href="mailto:michael@openmoko.org">michael@openmoko.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I agree.<br><br>We realize that this is a very grave issue and are treating it with the<br>utmost concern.<br><br>Michael<br><br><br>digger vermont wrote:<br>> That's to bad. Like many people I've been looking forward to getting a
<br>> Neo and using OM. Now I'm not sure if I will. I do a fair amount of<br>> camping and canoeing, at times in rural areas. I wonder how often the<br>> lack of the 850 band would cause problems? I looked around some and
<br>> couldn't find any good info on where 850 is used.<br>><br>> Seems like this could affect a lot of people's decision to get the<br>> GTA02.<br>><br>> digger<br>><br>> On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 09:35 +0800, Michael Shiloh wrote:
<br>>> Unfortunately, this also affects the GTA02, which is now far too close<br>>> to production to try to enable quad-band operation.<br>>><br>>> An 850/1800/1900MHz variant has been suggested but this is not yet
<br>>> determined.<br>>><br>>> Michael<br>><br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> OpenMoko community mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:community@lists.openmoko.org">
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