CDMA Expands by 27% Over Last Year
The CDMA Development Group (CDG) has reported that the number of CDMA2000 subscribers grew by 17 million in Q2 2005 to reach 185.6 million worldwide. In the first six months of 2005, CDMA2000 added more than 39 million new users and 73 million since June 2004. In addition, the CDG announced that CDMA is growing at a rate of 27% annually and garnered 13.6 million new users in the last quarter and close to 58 million in the past year, bringing the worldwide CDMA subscriber base to more than 270 million people.
Close to 68% of all CDMA users now access CDMA2000 3G services.
"3G CDMA technologies have added more than 50 million new users so far in 2005, and now serve 214 million people across six conti...
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