GPRS, EDGE support

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David A. Burgess dburgess at jcis.net
Tue Jan 28 15:30:35 UTC 2014


You start seeing this with several thousand phones.

On Jan 28, 2014, at 13:29, Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras <ralph at schmid.xxx> wrote:

>> It’s not normal operation.  It is an emergency measure that takes effect with
>> the network is in a hopeless congestion condition.  And in my experience,
>> this approach changes the recovery time from several hours to several
>> minutes.
> 
> About what numbers of phones are we talking here to reach a critical mass? 
> Usually a phone transmits two or three access bursts, then it waits for a while, 
> and I mean to remember some slotted aloha scheme, or similar. I hardly can 
> imagine that such a condition could last for_hours_, but of course the real 
> word sometimes offers bad surprises :)
> 
> Ralph.
> 
> 
> 





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