http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/30/telstra-kills-off-cdma-completes-migration-to-gsm/ Engadget Mobile Comments for Telstra kills off CDMA, completes migration to GSM http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/30/telstra-kills-off-cdma-completes-migration-to-gsm/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/30/telstra-kills-off-cdma-completes-migration-to-gsm/Now come on Canadian providers do the same thing - you know its right!]]>Apr 30th 2008 1:54PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/30/telstra-kills-off-cdma-completes-migration-to-gsm/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/30/telstra-kills-off-cdma-completes-migration-to-gsm/
You know, for a similar sized ecosystem (network size and subcribers), qualcomm makes more off of a UMTS/W-CDMA network in chipsets/licenses/patents than it does on its own standard now?

So, being qualcomm; some sucker adopts your technology paying you...then ditches it for another technology a couple years thereafter; but paying you more still! Qualcomm even owns Edge and GSM technology patents.]]>Apr 30th 2008 6:06PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/30/telstra-kills-off-cdma-completes-migration-to-gsm/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/30/telstra-kills-off-cdma-completes-migration-to-gsm/Apr 30th 2008 3:59PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/30/telstra-kills-off-cdma-completes-migration-to-gsm/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/30/telstra-kills-off-cdma-completes-migration-to-gsm/Apr 30th 2008 7:08PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/30/telstra-kills-off-cdma-completes-migration-to-gsm/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/30/telstra-kills-off-cdma-completes-migration-to-gsm/Apr 30th 2008 9:12PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/30/telstra-kills-off-cdma-completes-migration-to-gsm/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/30/telstra-kills-off-cdma-completes-migration-to-gsm/Apr 30th 2008 7:09PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/30/telstra-kills-off-cdma-completes-migration-to-gsm/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/30/telstra-kills-off-cdma-completes-migration-to-gsm/May 1st 2008 1:13AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/30/telstra-kills-off-cdma-completes-migration-to-gsm/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/30/telstra-kills-off-cdma-completes-migration-to-gsm/May 4th 2008 1:26AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/30/telstra-kills-off-cdma-completes-migration-to-gsm/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/30/telstra-kills-off-cdma-completes-migration-to-gsm/
I have given meanings to the 2 competing technology:

CDMA - Calls drop in multiple areas

GSM - GOOD, SIMPLE MOBILE

Besides, most CDMA phones are made cheap and they are expensive due to low production(less demand world wide, no economies of scale).
GSM users have more selection, more choice: world-wide roaming, style, colour and functionality. Can you take your CDMA phone to Spain or France? I can honestly say Apple will not likely to make iPhones in CDMA version.

CDMA is on life support and nobody is rescuing them !



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are also in varying stages of closing their CDMA networks and switching to GSM.

Three of the above are already running their HSPA networks side-by-side. The other three are trialling LTE.

Qualcomm's preferred 4G is LTE not UWB. They own patents for both and have more to gain from rapid adoption of LTE.

UWB is only a reasonable competitor to WiMax. LTE trounces WiMax in speed, global adoption and announced carrier rollouts. It also has a strong roadmap to multi-gigabit speeds with LTE-Advanced.]]>Jun 1st 2008 4:05AM