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To: Bux who wrote (12407)7/15/1998 6:05:00 PM
From: Clarksterh  Respond to of 152472
 
Bux - you have neglected to consider the biggest power saving feature of CDMA in your analysis. A CDMA network utilizes active power control to insure that all signals arrive at the base station at the same strength.

Actually, contrary to popular belief, GSM uses power control as well. It just isn't as fine tuned as CDMAOne's. Thus, although CDMAOne probably gets some benefit over GSM from power control, it isn't as much as most people think.

Clark



To: Bux who wrote (12407)7/15/1998 8:07:00 PM
From: Asterisk  Respond to of 152472
 
that would be true, thank you. My question is this, what amount of time is spent at the edge of coverage? I suppose that your battery life in a CDMA phone would be almost impossible to specify based on that.


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