@xjman349 Yeah, but that's only true if the CDMA you are talking about is WCDMA, also known as UMTS/HSPA. CDMA2000 (what VZW uses) is a technological dead end. If CDMA2000 is so great, why is VZW rushing toward LTE with such abandon?
@ipaladin How can you compare the CDMA standard from 9 years ago to the LTE standard that hasn't even been finalized?
He was making the point that on the whole, CDMA is a more secure (and typically faster) radio technology than GSM (in it's currently deployed state of UMTS, EDGE, and HSPA).
@ipaladin if that is true why does it seem that the GSM group keeps following in CDMA's footsteps? I would say 5g would be wimax based but since they are so similar to LTE i doubt that would happen.
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CDMA > GSM.
@xjman349
What's that? I can't hear you over my longer battery life and Youtube videos loading in the background while I'm talking..
@xjman349
or should that be HSPA > CDMA = GSM ?? probably a bit closer...
@xjman349 How do you guys feel AWS compares? Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I've never owned a cellphone (I know...)
@xjman349 Yeah, but that's only true if the CDMA you are talking about is WCDMA, also known as UMTS/HSPA. CDMA2000 (what VZW uses) is a technological dead end. If CDMA2000 is so great, why is VZW rushing toward LTE with such abandon?
@ipaladin
How can you compare the CDMA standard from 9 years ago to the LTE standard that hasn't even been finalized?
He was making the point that on the whole, CDMA is a more secure (and typically faster) radio technology than GSM (in it's currently deployed state of UMTS, EDGE, and HSPA).
@Endadget
That sounds like bad signal to me...
"What's that? I can't hear you over my longer battery life and Youtube videos loading in the background while I'm talking.."
@ipaladin if that is true why does it seem that the GSM group keeps following in CDMA's footsteps? I would say 5g would be wimax based but since they are so similar to LTE i doubt that would happen.