CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Rev. C a mouthful? Try UMB.(News)

RCR Wireless News, December, 2006

The CDMA Development Group has added a new acronym to the already-crowded wireless lexicon. The CDG has christened the technology formerly known as CDMA 2000 1x EV-DO Revision C with a much more memorable brand name: Ultra Mobile Broadband, or UMB. The new standard is expected to be published early in the second quarter of next year and become commercially available in early 2009, according to the CDG.

UMB is expected to be able to support a "large variety of services that require extremely low latencies, low jitter and increased spectral efficiencies,'' the CDG said. The group said that UMB combines "the best aspects of the following leading air-interface techniques: CDMA, TDM, OFDM and OFDMA.'' For acronym lovers, that's Code Division...

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