Query abt uplink and downlink freq. This topic has 2 replies, 1 voice, and was last updated 16 years, 6 months ago by Shaon. Viewing 3 posts - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) Author Posts 22nd March 2008 at 07:20 #51626 preetikaGuest Why do we use smaller frquency for uplink and higher freq for downlink in GSM?? Pls give me some technical reason for the same 22nd March 2008 at 08:22 #51627 PixGuest you can say that lower frequencies imply less propagation loss : the gain between uplink and donlink frequncies is less than O.3dB, as far as i remember. This is too small to be significant, but this could be the logical reason. 23rd March 2008 at 04:54 #51628 ShaonGuest Higher frequency needed more power than lower frequency. So uplink frequency is always lower to save ms battery charge. Author Posts Viewing 3 posts - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The forum ‘Telecom Design’ is closed to new topics and replies.