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Re: cdma is currently the dominant 3g in North America said by tiger72:Fair nuff that 500 million people currently use CDMA. Judging by tables on the pages you link, CDMA's growth is slowing considerably, Slowing perhaps, but still growing nonetheless.
Either those markets are saturated, or the operators aren't investing anymore. GSM has over 3 billion subs. Yes, GSM has more subscribers. That is not in dispute. However, that does not mean that their isn't a viable market for CDMA devices. As far as saturation, yes, I'd say that's the more likely scenario: »www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008···nes.html
Would you list any remotely large operators which will be using the CDMA2000 enhancements?
Come now, the enhancements were just released 10 days ago. Let's revisit this sometime in 2010.
That means, if you're on VZW and you've been waiting and waiting for an iPhone, there's no reason for you to stick with VZW. Sure there is. AT&T's network or lack thereof.
And 2 years from now will have completed 2 full contract cycles. The folks just had to have the apple phone and who drove the iPhone's success went to ATT. The leftovers either don't care or prefer their service over a phone. Either way, that doesn't bode well for CDMA iPhone sales.
Yes, those who just had to have the iPhone went to AT&T. However, there are still those who would like to have the iPhone but simply refuse to switch to AT&T. Moreover, you read all of the complaints about the iPhone here, on HoFo on other places on the internet. It's not a stretch to figure that if the iPhone were offered on Verizon, Sprint etc. that a significant number of subscribers would defect from AT&T. In this survey 55% of iPhone owners said their biggest dislike about the iPhone was AT&T's network: »brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn···bakeoff/ |
