[LEAPSECS] sometimes you don't know what time it is

[Jonathan E. Hardis]

>I'd be interested to know if CDMA cellular networks were disrupted more than

>others. CDMA is the only cellular telephony protocol that requires perfect

>sync between *all* parts of the network including handsets.


The empirical evidence is that such an event only affects the ability 
of CDMA networks to hand calls off from cell site to cell site.  (If 
the phone travels too far, the call is dropped.)  Within a cell, 
losing external sync has little effect since the local clock governs.

   - Jonathan