Talk:Time-division multiple access

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I got here looking for information on ATDMA, but I find no mention of it on Wikipedia. Perhaps someone smarter than me could start an entry? Mcj2a (talk) 04:00, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

I am not expert, but I believe the term TDMA is NOT derived from a type of greek sandwich. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.164.91.214 (talk) 19:10, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Regarding the line in this article " because as they move further from the base station, their signal will take longer to arrive" I am wondering if this could be clarified. Just like every other electromagnetic wave, radio waves move at the speed of light, so it is highly unlikely that distance plays a factor here. Rather, I think it must have something to do with signal strength and CSD packet loss and retransmissions that may occur at distance. Light (in a vacuum) travels at 299,792,458 metres per second So in a millisecond - which is one-thousandth of a second - it will travel 299,792.458 metres - 186.2824 miles, or 186 miles, 495 yards, 5 inches. the range of most cell towers is probably just a fraction of that. We're talking latency on the order of 3-4 hundredths of a millisecond being introduced by the distance of the receiver from the tower. Is this actually significant? Scoraellis (talk) 17:04, 19 January 2014 (UTC)