Daughter leaves for Ecuador 5-27-07

Przemolog · 29-05-2007, 17:54

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Originally Posted by snidely

1. Ecuador uses 850 - same as lots of the Cingular/ATT in U.S.
2. Some quad band phones can be set to restrict network searches to look for only 900/1800 or 850/1900. If set to look for only 900/1800 it won't find 850.

What is IMHO somehow reasonable since AFAIK there are no 850/1800 or 900/1900 dual-band networks anywhere

. But if there are areas where 850/900 and/or 1800/1900 coverage overlaps, it wouldn't be that good...

DRNewcomb · 30-05-2007, 01:22

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Originally Posted by Przemolog

What is IMHO somehow reasonable since AFAIK there are no 850/1800 or 900/1900 dual-band networks anywhere

. But if there are areas where 850/900 and/or 1800/1900 coverage overlaps, it wouldn't be that good...

1800 & 1900 reuse the same channel numbers and would be very hard to implement together, except maybe on some island somewhere. I don't know. 850 has a different set of channel numbers, so the two can run quite nicely together in the same area. In theory calls could even be handed back and forth between 900 & 850 like they are between 900 & 1800.