From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <40282A43.1080307@nospam.com> From: bs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] wireless/cellular connectivity? References: <007901c3eef4$24856a20$67844051@SOMA> In-Reply-To: <007901c3eef4$24856a20$67844051@SOMA> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 19:48:03 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d7487856-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 boyd, rounin wrote: >>for clarity, i'm refering to the network, not the phones. they >>have a derivative of one of the "main" networks (pretty sure >>it's GSM) that just isn't compatable with the one used in the >>rest of the world. > > > there are 3 GSM nets: > > 900Mhz GSM [standard] > DCS 1800Mhz [GSM-ish] > 1900Mhz GSM [US] > and 800(850 actually) used by Cingular & AT&T for transition from TDMA