Talk:Circuit Switched Data/Archive 1

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My corrections to CSD are based on

ETSI TS 101 038 V7.0.0 (1999-08)

Technical Specification

Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+);

High Speed Circuit Switched Data (HSCSD) - Stage 2

(GSM 03.34 version 7.0.0 Release 1998)

available from ETSI
--John Navas 23:57, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Availability: My thoughts on the unverified claims

The author's research assumes the user has "free minutes" already purchased which he/she can use for data at little or no extra expense. A mobile connection dedicated to a data application would not have a "bucket of minutes". Regular short bursts of data (a KB or two) would be extremely expensive once rounded up to the minimum 1 minute rate. The difference could be $0.50 on CSD compared to $0.01 on GPRS for each 1KB transfer. Hence original research shouldn't really be on Wikipedia, despite being interesting. In sure facts can be extracted from the section.~~k —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.152.115.183 (talk) 21:48, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Comments

There is confusion in the mobile support community about this, it would be good to get clarity. T-Mobile recently informed me that CSD in the USA is unavailable and has been for more than a year. Telstra in Australia has given a 2 year advanced warning of switching it off - some info at www.telstra.com.au/csdexit.

Andru Witta (talk) 04:38, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

CSD is available in the US from AT&T. However, it is only available to selected business & government customers and is not available for consumer subscribers. Schnell (talk) 05:11, 15 December 2010 (UTC)