Medical devices: A ticking time-bomb

Re:Medical devices: A ticking time-bomb by anrope on Sunday May 27, 2012 @11:26AM (#4030243)

I'm pretty sure cell towers all use gps for time synchronization, which is necessary for the network to work.

I always trust my cell phone time.

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Re:Medical devices: A ticking time-bomb by Dylan16807 on Sunday May 27, 2012 @03:24PM (#4030785)

Cell towers need synchronized clocks? For what?

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Re:Medical devices: A ticking time-bomb by tonyarkles on Sunday May 27, 2012 @03:53PM (#4030865)

I'm pretty certain that CDMA towers, at least, had exceptionally accurate clocks for something related to the technology (synchronizing the chip code maybe? it's a guess).

Not sure if this applies to GSM as well, but CDMA used to be an acceptable clock source for a Statum 0 clock source.

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