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inquisitor · 26-08-2007, 22:14

@bosssman

Thanks for the information. According to Wikipedia the network code, which your phones displayed, belongs to WMS - a joint venture of Cingular and MTN.
Since the network name isn't broadcasted over the network itself, but comes from a database in your phone or your SIM card, which obviously both don't contain that network's name, your phone showed only the network code.

According to WMS' figure below the satellite link on the ships amounts to 128 KBit/s only. Based on a bandwidth of 14,4 KBit/s per GSM call (including overhead) that means it can't carry more than 8 calls at once.

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inquisitor (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Professionist Posts: 1,399 Join Date: 15 Nov 2006 Country:	26-08-2007, 22:14 @bosssman Thanks for the information. According to Wikipedia the network code, which your phones displayed, belongs to WMS - a joint venture of Cingular and MTN. Since the network name isn't broadcasted over the network itself, but comes from a database in your phone or your SIM card, which obviously both don't contain that network's name, your phone showed only the network code. According to WMS' figure below the satellite link on the ships amounts to 128 KBit/s only. Based on a bandwidth of 14,4 KBit/s per GSM call (including overhead) that means it can't carry more than 8 calls at once. terminals: Samsung: Galaxy S5 DuoS (G900FD); BLU: Win HD LTE; Nokia: 1200; Asus: Fonepad 7 ME372CG; Huawei data: E3372, Vodafone R201, K3765, E1762; postpaid: O2 on Business XL; prepaid: DE: Aldi Talk, Lidl; UK: 3; BG: MTel, vivacom; RU: MTS; RS: MTS; UAE: du Tourist SIM; INT'L: toggle mobile VoIP: sipgate.de (German DID); sipgate.co.uk (British DID); ukddi.com (British DID); sipcall.ch (Swiss DID); megafon.bg (Bulgarian DID); InterVoip.com Last edited by inquisitor; 26-08-2007 at 22:24..