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Re: My Prediction Verizon is moving to LTE, the successor to UMTS (which is the successor to GSM).
Interestingly, there is no GSM in Japan (UMTS - yes, GSM - no). And several other countries (China, South Korea, Mexico, Canada) have major CDMA2000 carriers.
Fortunately it seems like UMB (Qualcomm's CDMA2000-family alternative to LTE) is dead, so everyone is going to standardize on LTE. Everyone except Sprint, at least. |
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| Canada is GSM. ATT Canada was GSM. That's NOW Rogers Wireless they offer the iPhone.
If i'm not mistaken Bell is even GSM. As for VZ we all know what they're using. Why keep bringing it up? Especially since it's not here and the technology is still in "testing" and won't be deployed anytime soon. |
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| said by hottboiinnc:Canada is GSM. ATT Canada was GSM. That's NOW Rogers Wireless they offer the iPhone. If i'm not mistaken Bell is even GSM. As for VZ we all know what they're using. Why keep bringing it up? Especially since it's not here and the technology is still in "testing" and won't be deployed anytime soon. »74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:7o···nk&gl=us
Major CDMA players in Canada include Telus Mobility and Bell Mobility.
Top Canadian GSM providers are Rogers Wireless and Fido.
There is more CDMA coverage in Canada than GSM.
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| When I go to - »www.cdg.org/worldwide/index.asp
It says there are about half a billion CDMA users in the world. That CDMA is used in North America, including Canada. I see Mexico, India, China all listed as CDMA countries, in addition to the U.S. and Canada.
Over here - »www.cdg.org/worldwide/cdma_world···iber.asp they provide the percent of CDMA subscribers by region.
In North America (the U.S. and Canada) it is 32.5%.
In Asia it's 51.8%.
For the rest of the world it's under 10%.
Europe is .8%, Middle East is 1.2%, Africa is 4.9%, Latin America is 8.8%.
China and Japan appear to have national CDMA coverage, India seems to have extensive CDMA coverage.
I don't think that is quite as bad as the GSM folks make it out to be.
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