While T-Mobile and Cingular use that standard, Verizon and Sprint operate on the CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) standard, which is popular in North America but not supported everywhere else.
So when a highly prized teenager without enough money to pay for expenses beyond tuition, room and board and books, he and his parents cannot rely on a uniform standard across the 120 Division 1 FBS schools to determine which school offers enough to cover the full cost of attendance.
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Telecommunications experts predict that most GSM countries will adopt a 3G standard known as Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA).
The LTE standard supports FDD (Frequency Division Duplexing) mode adopted by DOCOMO and TDD (Time Division Duplexing) mode expected to be adopted for LTE networks in China and other markets, which will help to further the development of advanced mobile devices by manufacturers worldwide.
Verizon, by contrast, uses a different standard, known as code-division multiple access (CDMA).
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Observers believe the Chinese are hard at work developing a homegrown advanced standard, known as TD-SCDMA (time division synchronous cdma), and that 3G licenses will appear once TD-SCDMA is ready.
Now, Qualcomm is a promising telecom company with a lock on a technology (called code division multiple access) that is becoming the standard for digital cell phones.
Using research from the Ohio labs of the old Standard Oil of Ohio (Sohio), now a division of BP, Lee has a solid oxide cell that can be configured to run on natural gas, soy oil or farm wastes.
Uber also launched in Chicago, where regulators tried to change the rules to block them, in Seattle with no problems, and in Boston, where a cease and desist was issued because the state's Division of Standards didn't have a standard for using GPS in commercial vehicles.
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Due to its strong patent position, it also collects fees from 195 licensees, spanning most of the cell-phone industry for code-division, multiple-access technology, which is the standard communications technology in cellular networks.
But Samsung Electronics, an affiliate of the Samsung chaebol, did have one thing going for it: The firm was totally committed to the up-and-coming phone standard of the time, known as CDMA technology (or code division multiple access), adopted by Sprint.
His unit will now work across Standard Life's retail, corporate, wealth and direct-to-customer division.
While Goldman is the gold standard in the trading business, with its fixed income, currencies and commodities trading division one of the most profitable in the industry, the macro environment has a been difficult one for trading in the last half of the year.
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Free trade raises our standard of living, not by adding jobs, but by increasing what Adam Smith called the division and specialization of labor, making jobs more productive.
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