CDMA450 to provide strong benefits from an unconventional spectrum.(COMMERCIAL MARKET)(Brief Article)

Microwave Journal, January, 2005

Having literally sprung-up as a new cellular technology overnight, the popularity of CDMA450 is growing, according to In-Stat/MDR. The high tech market research firm reports that, as a result, the number of CDMA450 subscribers will increase from approximately 1 million by the end of 2004 to over 2.5 million by 2009. Cheap deployment is the one compelling reason for the use of this technology and, according to Allen Nogee, a principal analyst with In-Stat/MDR, "For NMT450 carriers wishing to update their old technology to the latest 3G technology, CDMA450 makes perfect sense and is perhaps the only solution." Cheap deployment, however, is not the only benefit of CDMA450. Since CDMA450 uses the same technology as CDMA2000 operating at higher frequencies, it has all the...

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