| | I just thought I would add my 3c worth in as a 3G engineer. As someone who has worked on both technologies for many years, CDMA is probably the better engineered network - I think this was due to Qualcomm owning most of the patents on the technology - you can fine tune the whole system a little better than what you can with UMTS. Plus, the range at any given power is slightly greater for CDMA. It was a very cleverly designed system that was unfortunate in that Qualcomm doomed it. Where CDMA was let down was Qualcomm overcharging for it, litigating against Nokia who was keen to develop handsets for it over patents. So these days UMTS is the system that everyone is using, the upgrade from GSM is pretty clearly defined - many operators have a core network that is designed operate with both GSM and UMTS access networks. |
