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CDMA: CDMA2000, EV-DO: 13 (at peak) September 2013: Acquired by Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility. [39] AT&T Wireless Services: GSM: EDGE: 22: October 2004: Acquired by Cingular Wireless, which later rebranded to AT&T Mobility. [40] Big Sky Mobile: GSM: EDGE: Unknown: 2017: Sold spectrum licenses to AT&T and T-Mobile and exited the business ...
In 3G, the most prevalent technology was UMTS with CDMA-2000 in close contention. All radio access technologies have to solve the same problems: to divide the finite RF spectrum among multiple users as efficiently as possible. GSM uses TDMA and FDMA for user and cell separation. UMTS, IS-95 and CDMA-2000 use CDMA. WiMAX and LTE use OFDM.
Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in the United States lease wireless telephone and data service from the four major cellular carriers in the country—AT&T Mobility, Boost Mobile, T-Mobile US, and Verizon—and offer various levels of free and/or paid talk, text and data services to their customers.
Exclusive use for M2M, emergency communication and Smart Metering. Alliander Netherlands: CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev. A 450 May 2016: 3 MHz [5] [6] Private network for critical infrastructure. Exclusive use for M2M communication and Smart Metering. 450connect Germany: CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev. A 450 Nov 2016: 2x 1,25 MHz [7] [8] [9] [10]
The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is a 3G mobile cellular system for networks based on the GSM standard. Developed and maintained by the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project), UMTS is a component of the International Telecommunication Union IMT-2000 standard set and compares with the CDMA2000 standard set for networks based on the competing cdmaOne technology.
In Russia and some other countries, local carriers received licenses for 450 MHz frequency to provide CDMA mobile coverage area. Many GSM phones support three bands (900/1,800/1,900 MHz or 850/1,800/1,900 MHz) or four bands (850/900/1,800/1,900 MHz), and are usually referred to as tri-band and quad-band phones, or world phones; with such a ...
Apart from their main spectrum holdings across large regions in the country (listed below) the major US carriers (AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile & Verizon) also hold various Cellular Market Area (CMA) and/or Economic Area (EA) licenses for the AWS 1700 band, as well as Major Trading Area (MTA) and/or Basic Trading Area (BTA) licenses for the PCS 1900 band.
GSM 850 / GSM 1900 / UMTS 850 / LTE 1700 / LTE 1900 / LTE 2600 / 5G 3500: CDMA 1900 shut down in 2014 [8] [75] [78] 370: 03: Altice: Altice Group: Operational: AMPS / CDMA 850: Former Tricom, S.A, 1900 MHz spectrum returned to regulator [77] 370: 04: Viva: Trilogy Dominicana, S.A. Operational: CDMA 1900 / GSM 1900 / UMTS 1900 / LTE 1700: Former ...