Can anyone tell me the status of CDPD in the ATT network? Thanks RonJ
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 08:00:42AM -0400, Ronald W. Jean wrote:
Can anyone tell me the status of CDPD in the ATT network?
Scheduled to die soon, if it hasn't already. I was a second-tier CDPD sub, via Earthlink, until about a year ago; they took a hit to move me to 1xRTT, because the underlying networks were scheduled to go down, in keeping with the general decommissioning of analog AMPS, during this calendar year, as I understand it. It was extended because of a couple of large PD's who needed more time to switch (or amortize their gear; take your pick). http://www.google.com/search?q=cdpd+decommissioning Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me
AMPS, as I understand it, is required to be around until 1/1/2007, as mandated by tge FCC.
Scheduled to die soon, if it hasn't already. I was a second-tier CDPD sub, via Earthlink, until about a year ago; they took a hit to move me to 1xRTT, because the underlying networks were scheduled to go down, in keeping with the general decommissioning of analog AMPS, during this calendar year, as I understand it.
It was extended because of a couple of large PD's who needed more time to switch (or amortize their gear; take your pick).
-- Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, alex@nac.net, latency, Al Reuben Net Access Corporation, 800-NET-ME-36, http://www.nac.net
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
AMPS, as I understand it, is required to be around until 1/1/2007, as mandated by tge FCC.
I think the date actually got pushed back to '08, but I've not heard anything about requiring CDPD. -- JustThe.net - Steve Sobol / sjsobol@JustThe.net / PGP: 0xE3AE35ED Coming to you from Southern California's High Desert, where the temperatures are as high as the gas prices! / 888.480.4NET (4638) "Life's like an hourglass glued to the table" --Anna Nalick, "Breathe"
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 01:38:44AM -0400, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
AMPS, as I understand it, is required to be around until 1/1/2007, as mandated by tge FCC.
I think the date actually got pushed back to '08, but I've not heard anything about requiring CDPD.
Sorry; I didn't mean to imply that I thought the FCC was requiring them to keep or dump CDPD. What I was trying to get across was that, there being a large installed base for CDPD, they wouldn't dump it completely for sometime for a replacement, unless they had to -- and not having to maintain the associated RF and antennas for AMPS, they would no longer be able to cost-justify keeping it after AMPS went down. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
Scheduled to die soon, if it hasn't already. I was a second-tier CDPD sub, via Earthlink, until about a year ago; they took a hit to move me to 1xRTT,
?? AT&T doesn't use CDMA... so they wouldn't be running 1xRTT. EDGE, perhaps? -- JustThe.net - Steve Sobol / sjsobol@JustThe.net / PGP: 0xE3AE35ED Coming to you from Southern California's High Desert, where the temperatures are as high as the gas prices! / 888.480.4NET (4638) "Life's like an hourglass glued to the table" --Anna Nalick, "Breathe"
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
Scheduled to die soon, if it hasn't already. I was a second-tier CDPD sub, via Earthlink, until about a year ago; they took a hit to move me to 1xRTT,
AT&T doesn't use CDMA... so they wouldn't be running 1xRTT. EDGE, perhaps?
Yes. AT&T also announced plans to get into the next layer, UMTS, which uses the concept of code division multiple access (CDMA), but isn't the same as Quallcomm CDMA (IS-95/IS-2000/CDMA2000). I don't know offhand which of the GSM-core technologies are/will be deployed by them at this time, as they aren't the carrier I currently use. (To my knowledge, however, AT&T does offer GPRS, which is slow, but if using at least two timeslots, still faster than IS-95 CDMA non-1X data. 8-) -- -- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>
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