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 | | The present CDMA system, IS-95, which Qualcomm supports and the Sprint PCS network uses, is narrowband CDMA.(In the Ericsson /Qualcomm view of the future, IS-95 will also go to wideband CDMA.) AMPS, or Advanced Mobile Phone Service, analog cellular, is scheduled to end in America in 2007. |
 | | Any cellular system will have gaps in coverage, but the hexagonal shape lets us more neatly visualize, in theory, how the system is laid out. |
 | | The big difference with cellular telephones is the wide range of the low powered cell phones (transmission & reception) and certain telephone protocols that eliminate the need to say "over" and "out". |
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