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rclvnv


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When traveling constantly, I've not ever noticed any difference between the ability to send text msg & receiving/making voice calls. When in my daughters home some rooms have no voice signal, but all text msg are sent/received. We all have Verizon. Any thoughts?

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OK.  I've just GOT to say this one....

....would you say your daughter's family were "preppers" and had maybe lined their home with tinfoil?

 

Yeah, I know.  Bad Terry.

 

Actually, we had an issue with a previous service in that our cell service was poor enough that I had to go outside to actually talk on my cell phone.  With regards to text versus voice, perhaps it takes a wider "bandwidth" for voice than it would for text.  I don't know if "bandwidth" is the correct terminology to use, but I'm reminded that AM radio is different than FM radio in that FM has a set "bandwidth."

I tied to find an online explanation for your question, but since I'm at work and don't have much time, I'll have to research the differences.  But, by then, you'll probably have good answers from others.

EDIT:  There, see, in the time it took me to try to find an internet link, Mike has already helped out before I could "post" my comment.

Terry



-- Edited by Terry and Jo on Friday 19th of July 2013 07:21:56 AM

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it takes less bandwidth to send a text and a very small amount of signal and power to do so....

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A voice call requires not only data connectivity, but some limit on packet loss between you and the cell base station. A text only needs to get a single packet through & can retry as often as it needs to until it gets a response.

This web site gives you an idea of what is happening while you use your phone in either mode

crackberry.com/emergency-why-cellular-data-better-voice

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Thanks, Mike.

That explains it pretty well and saves me the trouble of trying to find it later.

Terry



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We build with stucco here and it really messes with the cell phone signal. I can usually always get a text message, but not always a phone call. So yes, for all the reasons Mike explained you can often send text msgs where you can't take a phone call.

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Thanks for all your responses. Terry, I wouldn't be surprised if some of my son-in-laws family might be into any number of bizarre practices, but they haven't been around to visit the new house yet, so the answer is most probably in the signal strength. Verizon offered to sell them a booster for around $300. I suspect they will keep the phones close to the window in the rooms that work best. Thanks again.  Richard



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My S&B house on the other side of the mountain was log.

I could text, always.

I could call, never.  Had to stand at end of driveway with one leg up and one arm out wearing foil hat.  I would be sitting in the house and suddenly get a "voice mail" notification.

*head scratch*

 

ps: Bad Terry!  *teehee*



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rclvnv wrote:

When traveling constantly, I've not ever noticed any difference between the ability to send text msg & receiving/making voice calls. When in my daughters home some rooms have no voice signal, but all text msg are sent/received. We all have Verizon. Any thoughts?

To explain perhaps another way – Texting is a lot like Morse Code which can get through when nothing else can due to its extremely simplistic technology.  On – or - Off.



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Good thing, cause I am a texting machine!!!



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What I am surprised is that we haven’t seen an App for typing in text from a keyboard via an iToy or Android.  Maybe there is and I haven’t seen it.  But with that we will have “progressed” all the way back to the 1930’s to something known as RTTY.  That’s “radio teletype” which is actually not a lot different than Morris Code with a keyboard.  You’ve seen them as the “news tickers” behind old Walter back when on CBS, etc.  Nothing really changes – just the name.  But "texting" is really just RTTY.  The "phones" are actually radios.



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Bill: There are texting apps for non-phones. My niece texts all the time from her iPod Touch, which is a WiFi only device.

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Figures - sorta had to be one.



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