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Old 07-07-2006, 03:50 PM   #17
paulmac
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Originally Posted by Texas_Traveler
Thanks for the info. Below is a what I believe each of these mean.

Cell ID: Each antenna is given a unique cell ID (unique within a region for each carrier). Typically antennas on the same tower have the same first four digits.

Channel Number: < 500 is in the 850 Mhz band, > 500 is in the 1900 Mhz Band. For more info see http://tk.com/wireless/
Thanks for that info, but does not mean that much to me. What I would rather be able to do (and was hoping this would do) is have the BB actually display which carrier's tower it is actually using. When I had the Razr, there were seem edits you could do to change it so it would display the carrier name for the tower it was using instead of always saying Cingular. Not that any of it meant you were roaming just was interesting to see when you were in different areas whose tower you were actually using.
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