Re: Cell Phone Use Coming for Airbus Fliers

Feb 21, 2005 0 Replies


> And before anyone gets upset GSM 800 is the same thing as GSM 850.


>> For some reason unknown to me when GSM was introduced to use on
>> cellular networks it was decided to call it GSM 850 even though it
>> uses the same transmit and receive frequencies as other cellular
>> technologies such as CDMA or TDMA (IS-136.)
> The official definition, found at
>
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says that 850 and 900 are different:

Well, yeah! But GSM 850 and 800 are the same thing as I said in my first post.

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