"tony sayer" wrote in message
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In article , Rod Speed
scribeth thus


"Mark" wrote in message
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On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:17:16 +1000, "Rod Speed"
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"tony sayer" wrote in message
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Course it must a country of that size I'm sure they don't bother to
cover all of it do they?.

No they don't, but because of the digital cliff seen
with GSM you either have coverage or you don't.

Wrong.

Nope.

The data is still tranmitted using RF.

You quite sure you aint one of those rocket scientist fellas ?

The fact that the underlying data is encoded digitally is irrelevant.

Wrong, as always.

The GSM digital cliff happens because with the GSM system, even
when the base can hear the handset fine, if its too far away as
determined by the round trip delay, it ignores it completely.

Thats not quite a same thing as was implied

Yes it is. And it wasn’t implied, it was stated explicitly.

there are areas within the otherwise usable service area
of a base station that are difficult owing to topography..

That’s a different matter entirely.

Do you have any hilly areas like say the Welsh valley's?..

Corse we do.