Slightly offtopic, however in terms of squeezing the life out of this 007 syndication, I reckon Sean Connery accurately sums it up by stating that the James Bond movies have stagnated and that Quentin Tarantino should direct the coming ones.
"This is more a case of the phone companies "overselling" their networks, by taking in more and more customers but not upgrading their network and placing additional cells to accommodate the increased load"
Agree. Here in Hong Kong, my mobile service has been on a slippery slope for the last two years to the point some 50% of my calls have crap quality, or even worse, are dropped altogether. And it's not because we are all bundled into this concrete jungle like sardines (the service was superior a couple of years back) - friends within these mobile providers outwardly admit they are squeezing as many customers into their network with little or no revamp to the infrastructure. And why? All the providers here bought 3G licences for hefty price tags, although nowhere near the ludicrous sums in Europe. Why bother upgrading your 2G system, only for it to be superceded (soon, but not sure when) by 3G which will cost big moola - based on current W-CDMA network figures? Bear in mind we use GSM here unlike CDMA where migration to 2G to 3G is far less costly.
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Go on, you purchased one of those Motorola startecs when it first came out, right?
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Slightly offtopic, however in terms of squeezing the life out of this 007 syndication, I reckon Sean Connery accurately sums it up by stating that the James Bond movies have stagnated and that Quentin Tarantino should direct the coming ones.
"This is more a case of the phone companies "overselling" their networks, by taking in more and more customers but not upgrading their network and placing additional cells to accommodate the increased load" Agree. Here in Hong Kong, my mobile service has been on a slippery slope for the last two years to the point some 50% of my calls have crap quality, or even worse, are dropped altogether. And it's not because we are all bundled into this concrete jungle like sardines (the service was superior a couple of years back) - friends within these mobile providers outwardly admit they are squeezing as many customers into their network with little or no revamp to the infrastructure. And why? All the providers here bought 3G licences for hefty price tags, although nowhere near the ludicrous sums in Europe. Why bother upgrading your 2G system, only for it to be superceded (soon, but not sure when) by 3G which will cost big moola - based on current W-CDMA network figures? Bear in mind we use GSM here unlike CDMA where migration to 2G to 3G is far less costly.
Go on, you purchased one of those Motorola startecs when it first came out, right?