alt Hacker NewsDon't a lot of cellular networks rely on highly synchronized clocks to properly handle TDMA-style transmissions? Shouldn't they be very in sync with the towers' times?
Don't a lot of cellular networks rely on highly synchronized clocks to properly handle TDMA-style transmissions? Shouldn't they be very in sync with the towers' times?
I do believe there are (fairly) tight tolerances for clock synchronization between the network and the user equipment/handsets, but I don't know that it necessarily involves communicating the wallclock time. And the oscillators for signal timing aren't necessarily used for timekeeping.