Verizon's latest move to LTE is a confirmation of a trend
So now gone are the days of American carriers doing their own thing. Now they are looking to other carriers in other countries for direction.
ATT Wireless and Cingular went first by going GSM rather than CDMA. ATT Wireless even got pushed towards W-CDMA by none other than Japan's NTT Docomo (who created W-CDMA according to the sources that went into the wikipedia article)
Voicestream gets purchased by T-Mobile so there's Germany right there.
Sprint goes with Mobile WiMax which is basically WiBro, a technology developed by South Koreans (based on regular WiMax but still the influence is there)
Now Verizon Wireless chooses international cooperation with Vodafone (possible merger coming?) rather than stay with the 3GPP2/cdma2000 g...
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ATT Wireless and Cingular went first by going GSM rather than CDMA. ATT Wireless even got pushed towards W-CDMA by none other than Japan's NTT Docomo (who created W-CDMA according to the sources that went into the wikipedia article)
Voicestream gets purchased by T-Mobile so there's Germany right there.
Sprint goes with Mobile WiMax which is basically WiBro, a technology developed by South Koreans (based on regular WiMax but still the influence is there)
Now Verizon Wireless chooses international cooperation with Vodafone (possible merger coming?) rather than stay with the 3GPP2/cdma2000 g...
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Yeah but they snubbed Vodafone when they went EV-DO instead of UMTS. If there was influence from Vodafone, it wasn't working back then. Now there will be no more snubbing. 😎
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Very interesting situation that is going to happen globally and domestically when it comes to data speeds. About time actually. With regarding Voda and Verizon, I do think because of that global LTE network we will see some kind of merger or type of joint venture agreement on the globalized revenue recorded.
I think that Verizon wasn’t thinking clearly about its 4G choices and went with Voda’s pick because of a little bit of pressure put on Voda. I am sure they made an ultimatum but if I was Verizon, I would have picked UMB.
I think that Verizon wasn’t thinking clearly about its 4G choices and went with Voda’s pick because of a little bit of pressure put on Voda. I am sure they made an ultimatum but if I was Verizon, I would have picked UMB.
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