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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Is Analog Cellular Dead?
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Date: 10 Jun 90 16:44:50 GMT
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In article <8826@accuvax.nwu.edu> motcid!king@uunet.uu.net (Steven
King) writes:

> A purely digital system has three times the number of
> channels that an analog system does.  THAT'S why we "suddenly can't do
> without digital".  The airwaves are getting full!

I thought one idea behind cellular was to push the cells closer together
when that happened. Put in more, smaller cells.

And do the digital phones have the same bandwidth as the analog ones?
Do they still give you a full-time 3 KHz channel, suitable for
modeming?


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