[Openbts-discuss] EDGE vs. UMTS

[Ralph A. S. d. <ra...@sc...>]

Hi out there,

Still I am waiting for OpenBTS going publicly UMTS - but after my experience with Scotlands mobile networks, I think the world has a greater need for good GSM data coverage, UMTS without HSPA is not much better by means of throughput, has better latency, but much lower operating range, gets clogged quite fast when the cell has a big coverage area and many subscribers due to the CDMA issues with not-so-orthogonal codes and noise...

Why not go for EDGE? It is efficient, reliable, gives almost-UMTS-speed with almost-GSM-coverage. You can't imagine how I missed EDGE in Scotland - only GPRS with throughput of almost nil, and UMTS that often had GPRS throughput, sometimes a bit more, but the overall experience was devastating. 

Leaving Edinburgh/Glasgow almost meant leaving civilization, by means of connectivity. One can really get used to speeds of usually 10Mbps or more, what I am having here when traveling in Germany :)

Ralph.


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