Analog Cellular service is
the most common and widely used technology for cellular
phone service. Not a new technology by any means since it
has been used for radio phones in WWII and then on the 10
foot Satellite dishes seen in people’s yards in rural
areas.
Analog Cellular Service is
a loosely banded radio wave that, when transmitted, can
cover a broad range of the radio frequency, which also
made it susceptible to cloning and fraud. However,
although cloning of analog phones is a technological
possibility, the carriers have made it very difficult for
cloned phones to last very long.
The inception of cellular
phone use on a public scale started in 1984. As the
service grew to be used by a larger subscriber base, more
cellular phone towers have been put up all over the US
and in some of the rural areas to meet demand.
Analog cellular service
has an advantage over the digital carriers in that it has
been established for many years now and offers the
largest area of coverage to the cellular phone user. The
chances of your arriving in a dead spot are much lower
using an analog service phone as opposed to using a
digital service phone.
Another advantage to this
technology is that you as the cellular phone subscriber
can travel farther within a specific cell coverage area
before having to do a handoff to another cell to continue
the call and having it picked up by another cell site.
One of the disadvantages
to analog cellular service is that the user’s telephone
will wait for the phone to be in the range of another
cell site with enough signal strength to connect the call
and do a hand off even if the signal is weak and will
drop within a short distance.
People who work or live in
a rural area find that the analog cellular service is the
most useful and allows them to purchase the 3 Watt Bag
Phone that uses more power to transmit the signal and
hold the call longer when in a "fringe" area of
analog cellular coverage. (At the edge of a cell site’s
range.)
