Tuesday, August 15, 2006
CDMA "Mobile Broadband" Deployment in Europe
Posted by Janak Parekh in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 08:30 PM
"Nordisk Mobiltelefon is launching a nationwide CDMA450 network in Norway to provide telecommunications and broadband services to consumers and enterprises. CDMA2000 is now deployed across the European continent with 12 operators offering voice and broadband data services in Belarus, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, and the Ukraine. Other operators are planning to deploy similar CDMA2000 services in Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia and Sweden."
Geekzone mentions an interesting little footnote about CDMA adoption in Europe -- while it is probably near nonexistent for mobile phone use, believe it or not, CDMA service is being offered as a mobile broadband service there. I'm guessing it's because of the availability of bandwidth in the 450MHz band, and (as the article mentions) the ease of 3G upgrades. I'm a believer in using whichever technologies work and work well for an application, so if CDMA makes sense, more power to the technology. 8)
Geekzone mentions an interesting little footnote about CDMA adoption in Europe -- while it is probably near nonexistent for mobile phone use, believe it or not, CDMA service is being offered as a mobile broadband service there. I'm guessing it's because of the availability of bandwidth in the 450MHz band, and (as the article mentions) the ease of 3G upgrades. I'm a believer in using whichever technologies work and work well for an application, so if CDMA makes sense, more power to the technology. 8)
