3G Cell Broadcast

[Ext User(Simon Templar)]

Can anyone tell me if any of the Australian carriers have enabled cell
broadcast? 3 haven't but what about the others?


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[Ext User(kcoj)]

Simon Templar wrote:
> Can anyone tell me if any of the Australian carriers have enabled cell
> broadcast? 3 haven't but what about the others?
>
>
> --
> The views I present are that of my own and NOT of any organisation I may
> belong to.
>
> 73 de Simon, VK3XEM.
> http://web.acma.gov.au/pls/radcom/client_search.client_lookup?pCLIENT_NO=157452
>
Voda :No
not part of 3g spec

[Ext User(John Henderson)]

kcoj wrote:

> Voda :No
> not part of 3g spec

How did you come to that conclusion?

Hint: have a look at 3GPP TS 23.041.

John

[Ext User(Simon Templar)]

John Henderson wrote:
> kcoj wrote:
>
>> Voda :No
>> not part of 3g spec
>
> How did you come to that conclusion?
>
> Hint: have a look at 3GPP TS 23.041.
>
> John

That's right John, I emailed 3 late last year about this and they tried
to say it wasn't part of the specs as well. I replied to them that they
were liars with numerous URLs to prove it, never did get another reply
to the matter.


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73 de Simon, VK3XEM.
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[Ext User(mabs)]

I'm not going to deny that it's in the specs, but a few 3G phones
refuse to use cell broadcast in 3G mode, the Nokia 7600 comes to mind.
I also believe my 6630 does not support it either and I get the feeling
not many if any Nokias do (but I could be wrong).

I have also been lead to believe that with a CDMA type of modulation
you're mostly are talking to more than one tower, which makes cell
broadcast difficult to achieve, but this is where I am getting out of
my depth and someone who has a better knowledge on this subject should
step in.

On a similar subject, I have been using a program called CellTrack on
my 6630 (S60 app), a description for each cell you go past can be
manually inputed, and I've been "collecting" many Voda 3G cells in
Melbourne (plus some 3 in Canberra). It's a solution, but maybe not a
great one.

CellTrack: http://www.afischer-online.de/sos/celltrack/
My stuff (plus clf files for CellTrack):
http://www.mabsoft.org/wacko/CellTowers

[Ext User(Jeremy Quirke)]

"mabs" <mrmabs@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> I'm not going to deny that it's in the specs, but a few 3G phones
> refuse to use cell broadcast in 3G mode, the Nokia 7600 comes to mind.
> I also believe my 6630 does not support it either and I get the feeling
> not many if any Nokias do (but I could be wrong).
>
> I have also been lead to believe that with a CDMA type of modulation
> you're mostly are talking to more than one tower, which makes cell
> broadcast difficult to achieve, but this is where I am getting out of
> my depth and someone who has a better knowledge on this subject should
> step in.
>

No this is not true in idle mode.