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To: JMD who wrote (31578)	6/3/1999 12:07:00 PM
From: JRH	Read Replies (1) of 152472

Re: Sprint coverage: I got an email from a friend about his experience with PCS. Sounds similar to your story! Check it out: One of the guys I work with dropped his Sprint PCS for GTE digital/analog dual mode coverage. Another one dropped his Pac Bell PCS and I used to have Pac Bell PCS and dropped it as well. All of us now use the digital/analog cellular technology. Pac Bell also uses CDMA technology, at least that's what I have been told. All of these changes were because coverage sucked. The phones had lots of neat options but I could not drive into work and talk on the phone without dropping a call every time. The previous place I worked had an antenna _very_ close and I could not recieve or send calls unless I held the phone in just the right orientation near a window. The problem with PCS is it uses the 1.9GHz or higher frequencies and are very suseptible to interference such as walls, cars, trees, etc. The lower frequencies used by digital cellular and analog cellular can penetrate objects much better. PCS is the predominant technology (I believe) in most other parts of the world. I just happen to think it's not quite ready for prime time here in the U.S. yet, and unless I see some better coverage, I won't be going back to PCS any time soon. I do know that some people really like PCS, but I bet they don't use it as much as I use mine or over as wide an area. Last month I had over 500 minutes and very few dropped or lost calls. When I had my PCS phone I could not go to Iowa to visit my folks and use that phone, however, I can with my current cell phone. I have had a bad experience with PCS and sos did the other two guys I work with.

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