GSM clock and phones

[Harald Welte]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 03:41:52PM +0200, Dario Lombardo wrote:
> If yes, my question is: how can a phone determine that the clock given
> by the network is precise enough? I'm a bit confused: how can the
> phone say that's not good, if it doesn't have a precise clock itself?

The phone will trim it's oscillator against the first network it is
trying to register.  So it is not absolute accuracy that you need, but
relative accuracy.  If the first cell the phone registers to is wrong,
then it will only find other cells with an equally wrong clock.
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- Harald Welte <laforge at gnumonks.org>           http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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