Each comes with GPS navigation and can access 3G speeds on Sprint's broadband CDMA network.
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The focus of the plan is on upgrading the existing CDMA network while providing technology flexibility for the Sprint 4G platform.
As I'm on a CDMA network, my Galaxy Nexus isn't going to be much use to me, so what options are available to me?
However, the addition of the iPhone addition has helped the company report strong postpaid net adds on its Sprint CDMA network since the 4S launch.
Verizon and Sprint operate what is known as a CDMA network.
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The army's CDMA network, which was recently handed over to Unicom's parent, is an issue but I don't know if labeling it a concern is correct.
The company is looking to modernize its network so as to add flexibility to add LTE services in the future and migrate iDEN subscriber base to CDMA network.
Kuo Ming-Chi, an analyst for Concord Securities in Taiwan, estimates that Apple's manufacturing partners in China will ship 7.1 million iPhones compatible with Verizon's CDMA network in the first quarter.
The iPhone has been available in China since 2009 through China Unicom and it is likely that China Telecom launches the iPhone 4S on its CDMA network early next year.
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Instead, high-speed wireless access services can leapfrog the fiber lines directly to your computer and provide even higher rates of data transmission-- over the same CDMA network that's already in place to route cell phone traffic.
Unicom blames a perfect storm for its misfortune, citing the sale of its CDMA network in 2008 for an artificially inflated profit a year ago combined with the immense expense involved in rolling out its HSPA cells over the course of 2009.
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My bet is that we will see a move toward better pricing models within the next six months, led by the CDMA wireless network operators.
There are about six million users on Sprint-Nextel presently, but they are going to lose this service, as Sprint phases out IDEN in 2013 and moves the traffic to their CDMA-based network.
China Mobile's largest rival, China Unicom, will be able to rid itself of a cumbersome, overlapping network using the CDMA standard, which is incompatible with its more popular GSM-based network, by selling it to the country's fixed-line operator, China Telecom.
Verizon works on CDMA and so the network is entirely incompatible with the phones that any Vodafone customer from anywhere else in the world uses.
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Enter the Kyocera Torque, the latest Sprint smartphone featuring the network's CDMA-based Push-to-Talk service.
The iPhone 4S will be a world phone that can switch between different network standards, both CDMA and GSM, and will be available through all three major U.S. carriers as well as through Apple itself.
By comparison to analog and GSM-based technologies, 3G CDMA technology has advantages such as increased network capacity, network flexibility, compatibility with internet protocols, higher capacity for data and faster access to Internet.
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As mobile network operators gradually migrate of to CDMA from GSM in emerging markets, we expect the rate of CDMA penetration to increase, however at a slower pace, due to a larger mobile phone base.
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So while the phone may have GSM network access on shore (because no CDMA signal is found), that is not the case when you are on a ship because ships provide both GSM and CDMA cell sites.
The design of Verizon's network, which uses a different technology called CDMA, has to this point allowed only one or the other.
Rumor has it that the nation's largest CDMA carrier begins rolling out its EV-DO Revision A network this Friday, starting with ten cities (Sacramento and Salt Lake City among them) and a little data card we like to call the Sierra Wireless AirCard 595.
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Verizon also is upgrading its network to a higher-speed technology, so Apple has said it believed CDMA was a short-term technology.
Tapping on the preferred network type option, you can select either LTE on its own, or a mix of LTE, GSM and CDMA. According to the videos, the Google phone then taps into your carrier's LTE network if Band 4 is available, and you're good to go.
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