Friday, October 8, 2010

What is Ec/I0

In CDMA refers to the portion of the RF signal which is usable. It's the difference between the signal strength and the noise floor.

Ec/Io (pronounced "ee-see over eye-not") is basically a measure of how well your phone can hear the tower over all the other traffic on the channel.

A reading near 0.0 is very good. You can find low readings late at night on weekdays when traffic is low. When the reading is high (-12.0 to -15.0), quality will drop and you may even lose the call.

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