Jonathan, 3G has nothing to do with your voice calling.
Furthermore, if your phone reported a full signal, was able to receive calls, and you were able to hear the caller but all they heard was silence... you had a faulty phone.
Whenever I went into the FACTORY SETTINGS, and switched the phone to 2G only, so that it would ONLY use the EDGE network, guess what?? The phone works beautifully.
Jonathan is correct, UMTS carries both voice and data. Hence, they'll eventually be able to turn off the GSM towers completely allowing for cheaper and smaller phones.
This is different from Verizon and Sprint's EV-DO (EVolution Data Only) 3G technology, which requires the older cdma2000 network for voice calls.
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Hugh Jass @ Oct 6th 2006 11:54AM
Jonathan, 3G has nothing to do with your voice calling.
Furthermore, if your phone reported a full signal, was able to receive calls, and you were able to hear the caller but all they heard was silence... you had a faulty phone.
Jonathan @ Oct 6th 2006 11:58AM
I didn't have a "faulty phone," dear.
Whenever I went into the FACTORY SETTINGS, and switched the phone to 2G only, so that it would ONLY use the EDGE network, guess what?? The phone works beautifully.
3G is voice AND data.. learn your facts.
xbit @ Oct 6th 2006 12:20PM
Jonathan is correct, UMTS carries both voice and data. Hence, they'll eventually be able to turn off the GSM towers completely allowing for cheaper and smaller phones.
This is different from Verizon and Sprint's EV-DO (EVolution Data Only) 3G technology, which requires the older cdma2000 network for voice calls.