From Nokia to stop making CDMA phones:
- “The Finnish company said on Thursday it would pull out of CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) phone manufacturing, which it sees as a shrinking market in the longer term.”
- “CDMA is the less popular wireless telephony technology, used by 25 to 30 percent of mobile subscribers, and competes with the GSM standard used by about 70 percent of the world's 2 billion mobile phone users.”
Yes, but 30% of “many” (i.e. millions and millions) is still a lot. CDMA and subsequent/related technologies (CDMA, CDMA2K, EV-DO, etc.) 1) will not go away, and 2) will be significant, specially in some parts of the world, such as U.S.A. There must be other factors why this decision… and the reasons are “technology licensing” “patent infringement”, and “Qualcomm”… That's too bad.
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