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Re: You don't say If this rumor ever came true, I can't see T-Mobile switching to Sprint's CDMA technology. It would have to be the other way around, since that's the prominent technology elsewhere around the world, including T-Mobile's overseas operations.
That would leave Verizon as the only major CDMA player left in the U.S. At that point, maybe Verizon would be thinking "if you can't beat them, join them."
As far as Sprint's other corporate/government business, companies always go out of business or merge, and technologies change. Nothing is static. This would all evolve.
Anyway, since this ain't happening, no need to worry about it now. |
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»Verizon Speeding Up LTE Deployment
CDMA, for all intensive purposes, is dead. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | A. LTE isn't CDMA2000 the protocol
B. LTE isn't CDMA the modulation method »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-UTRA |
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 en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to fifty nine
Not really... its more like OFDM. |
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Intents and purposes. Also VZW has stated that they will continue to use CDMA for voice until 2018-2020. Not so dead... They will be using LTE for data only. |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | Early LTE devices will be data-focused devices like aircards... this is how EV-DO started out, too... these are usually the first type of devices that get to market due to relative simplicity.
The voice component of LTE is likely to take more time to test. Verizon will probably want the first batch of LTE-enabled phones to use CDMA for voice, too, especially considering LTE-CDMA handoffs. But how I understand it 2018-2020 is the shut-down date for the CDMA network, not when they plan to stop selling CDMA phones. (You might have meant this, the post was unclear so I wanted to clarify)
Interestingly, because EV-DO is "data only" (well, the official acronym was changed to "data optimized" for some reason), the older CDMA 1x network is still used for voice, and may end up outliving EV-DO... |
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