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Re: Cell Phone Use Coming for Airbus Fliers

Joseph (JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com)
Mon, 21 Feb 2005 08:48:51 -0800

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 02:48:44 -0500, Marcus Didius Falco
<falco_marcus_didius@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>> And before anyone gets upset GSM 800 is the same thing as GSM 850.
>> For some reason unknown to me when GSM was introduced to use on
>> cellular networks it was decided to call it GSM 850 even though it
>> uses the same transmit and receive frequencies as other cellular
>> technologies such as CDMA or TDMA (IS-136.)

> The official definition, found at
> http://www.gsmworld.com/technology/glossary.shtml
> says that 850 and 900 are different:

Well, yeah! But GSM 850 and 800 are the same thing as I said in my
first post.

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