Talk:Brazil/@comment-186.237.74.224-20151019110126/@comment-24682153-20151019133958

You are right. The original distribution is like this (see first table here).

About 850 MHz (on all providers): GSM-850 uses 824 – 849 MHZ for uplink and 869 – 894 MHz for the downlink (see here Bands A and B). From Expedia: GSM-850 is also sometimes called "GSM-800" because this frequency range was known as the "800 MHz band" (for simplification) when it was first allocated for AMPS in the United States in 1983.

I agree, that we should rename it to 850 MHz on all providers as this is the term (or spectrum) mostly used today and e.g. given in the US (@ AT&T) as well.

About Vivo's 1900 MHz: Vivo holds licenses in the 1900 MHz band in most states, which it used for 2G. In the two links from above, this is marked as spectrum L (1895-1900 MHz uplink, 1975-1980 MHz downlink). In the blue box on this side (called Realinhamento da Banda L da Vivo) you can read that Anatel (natl. regulator) gave permission to refarm this spectrum to 3G. So it is likely to be phased out for 2G.

So I'm going to change 800 to 850 on all providers and add in 1900 at Vivo with brackets (to be phased out). OK with you??