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Verizon Delays Shutdown of old CDMA Network

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Jan 6, 2021, 1:35 PM   by Rich Brome

Verizon has once again delayed the planned shutdown of its legacy CDMA network. The company originally planned to shut down the network at the end of 2019, then in mid-2019 postponed it to the end of 2020. Now, the company says: "we don't have a plan to shut it down at this time". Verizon's original CDMA network was first launched as a 2G network by Bell Atlantic in 1996. Verizon then upgraded that CDMA network to 3G with the rollout of EV-DO technology in 2004. Each separate network technology requires its own dedicated part of the radio spectrum, and older technologies make less-efficient use of the limited resource that is radio spectrum. Verizon's original plans to phase out CDMA would have freed up more of Verizon's licensed spectrum for newer, more efficient 4G and 5G technologies, allowing the company to accommodate more 4G and 5G customers with better service. But apparently more customers remain active on the CDMA network than Verizon is willing to leave stranded.

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gloopey1

Jan 6, 2021, 2:10 PM

LTE Is Garbage!

The reason nobody wants to go all 4G/5G is that it is garbage. CDMA is practically everywhere and rarely fails or drops traditional phone calls. People who use cellphones for their original purpose rely on it to work for them.
"Nobody wants to go all 4G/5G" - that's not true whatsoever. If it were, 99% of Verizon's network wouldn't already be using their LTE network on a full-time basis. CDMA is a dead technology. It takes up way too much bandwidth, and incredibly inefficie...
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