There are two locations in NYC Chinatown where my Galaxy Nexus will only show 3G with 1 or 2 bars indoors on the 6th floor and about 60 feet inside on the 1st floor. As soon as I walk outside, it switches over to 4G. Is it normal to fallback to 3G when the signal is weak? Strange how there's 3G instead of 4G given that the 700Mhz actually penetrates building better.
VZW has not deployed SMH/LTE on every site, so you may get SMH/LTE service outside from a farther away site, but inside it becomes too weak and the mobile switches to CDMA from a nearby site that doesn't have SMH/LTE.
Or they could be a host of other explanations, like SMH uses different antennas with different radiation patterns, or lower transmit power, so even though it suffers less path loss, it could still be weaker than 3G at the recipient's location.
I am a little confused. My Verizon phone was able to roam on GSM because they used TDMA. Tell it was shutdown. The phone recognizes it as Analog. If PCS has TDMA, It could be technically be used on GSM.
Originally Posted by Tabla
Y'know, I'm used to hysterical 14-year-old ******** on the internet, but this is exceptional. Never before in human history have so many nerds hyperventilated so publicly over so little.
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