What about CDMA 900/1800
Why are those bands never talked about or used in other countries?
I know that CDMA 1800 is used in korea, but why does verizon not have those bands in any of there phones???
I know that CDMA 1800 is used in korea, but why does verizon not have those bands in any of there phones???
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Korea has CDMA 800 which Verizon uses.
The rest of the world (other than Japan which has a unique system) is GSM dominated.
The rest of the world (other than Japan which has a unique system) is GSM dominated.
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Two reasons, 1) VZW is a different company than VZ, Vodafone owns 45% or so. So to keep VZW from competing with Vodafone overseas, VZW is restricted by it's charter to working domestically, meaning only inside the US. So VZW only sells phones designed to work on US CDMA, not on other CDMA bands. They do sell a CDMA/GSM phone to work in Europe, but that's the exception to the rule. 2) The US FCC determined what spectrum gets used for what in the US, so that 1800 spectrum hasn't been allocated specifically for cell phone use in the US.
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