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Re:Ofcom: opensignalmaps could help consumers get better signal by rorrr on Saturday August 13, 2011 @09:30PM (#2882491)
> Testing in Devon, the difference in performance between 2G and 3G phones is staggering: the former has 97% call robustness, the latter only 95%. What’s 2%? Actually it means you’re 66% more likely that any given call will fail on 3G

No, it means, a failed call is 66% more likely to be a 3G call.

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Re:Ofcom: opensignalmaps could help consumers get better signal by bg182 on Sunday August 14, 2011 @01:23PM (#2884005)
No, the two statements are equivalent. Taking 97% robustness on 2G to mean any given call will drop to be 3/100 then on 3G it is 5/100 which gives a relative probability of 5/3 or 66% more likely.
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