Is CDMA dying now that Verizon said they going with a form of GSM
Three of the four national's will be on the same platform..
Also, what does that mean to all the verizon CDMA slappies that for years have sipped the kool-aid and told us how great that technology is. Are these same people gonna flip-flop in a few years? just a thought.
Sprint is doing Wimax.
If companies see that these 4g+ technologies are better than their CDMA networks then they will probably make the switch but it would take many years constructing the network and then moving the customers over.
So short answer; yes probably it will but take some time.
nextel18 said:
Oh, ok so you were talking about overall. I would again have to say a majority will have them, but it will take time to move people over from their CDMA operations to the LTE one. If they move everyone over, which is highly unlikely, then yes, they should probably all have a Sim card, but they need to go away from the CDMA network. They could also have dual CDMA/LTE but I think that is difficult on a number of levels, however, can still be done.
So short answer; yes probably it will but take some time.
I wonder what those hybrid phones would be called. I remember the TDMA/GSM phones being referred to as GAIT, and those phones from what I heard didn't work as well switching between net...
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Having dual mode phones is not that easy to release and have being launched onto the network. It will be difficult but it can happen, especially as the years progress.
I did a report on them for one of my many finance classes.