ZTE completes EV-DO Rev. B VoIP call on CDMA2000 system

It seems like just yesterday that Big Red was firing up its EV-DO Rev. A network in America, and already we're seeing signs of life with Rev. B. In all honesty, though, we've known about the next iteration of EV-DO (and the next-next, for that matter) for years now, but said Chinese carrier has just completed what it calls the world's first EV-DO Rev. B VoIP call on its CDMA2000 system. In other words, this is the first time a CDMA carrier has achieved a 9.3Mbps download rate and 5.4Mbps upload rate. The lovely part of this is that ZTE can upgrade from Rev. A to Rev. B without any additional hardware, thus paving the way for a quick commercialization in Q3 2009. Huzzah!

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 27th 2009 4:20PM]

Humm... interesting news for sure on a technology that one would have thought dead. The most important question is, will there be any devices to speak of for Rev.B?

[PeterFnet Posted Feb 27th 2009 5:02PM]

Yes, many devices had firmware upgrades for RevA, I would imagine the same would be for RevB

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 27th 2009 6:57PM]

That was a mighty nice building.