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Would 3G iPhones enable Verizon people to use these?
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No!!
Verizon is CDMA and their 3G is EV-DO.
The iPhone is GSM, and at&t's 3G is UTMS (HDSPA/HUSPA).
While the encoding scheme for UTMS is CDMA, it is still a GSM system, and therefore incompatible.
TEG
Verizon is CDMA and their 3G is EV-DO.
The iPhone is GSM, and at&t's 3G is UTMS (HDSPA/HUSPA).
While the encoding scheme for UTMS is CDMA, it is still a GSM system, and therefore incompatible.
TEG
Or Sprint, or any other CDMA carrier.
CDMA - Code Division for Multiple Access
GSM - Global Standard for Mobility
CDMA service is tied to the phone, GSM is tied to a SIM card. GSM (and its 3G versions) are used everywhere in the world. CDMA is used mostly in the US, Canada, and some older international networks.
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why would that be a main issue, considering the fact that people have hacked the s**t out of them any ways to allow other carriers
Verizon will eventually join the rest of the world with LTE but we will not see that until 2010/2011 at the earliest.
We'll see how "great" their coverage is when they do not have native GSM coverage to fall back on. "Think the original ATT wireless's coverage way back in late 2000/early 2001 with the launch of their GSM network without backwards compatibility to TDMA; only a few phones had backwards TDMA/GSM). Verizon's coverage will suck big time because all their phones will only be LTE compatible cause they will not want to pay Qualcomm's CDMA royalty in order to have a dual CDMA/LTE phone.
I highly, highly doubt Verizon will start selling LTE-only phones until their LTE network has expanded to cover the same areas as their CDMA network. They'd lose millions of subscribers.
I am looking forward to LTE eventually though, since then Verizon and AT&T will be using the same wireless technology. Competing standards just make things unnecessarily complicated.
In my dreams, I also imagine a less subsidy/contract/nickel-and-dime-driven mobile marketplace, where compatible, open networks compete for business by driving the costs of data access downwards (since all traffic is data, really) and removing complicated "minutes/texts/data" plans from the picture... But those are just dreams.
I am looking forward to LTE eventually though, since then Verizon and AT&T will be using the same wireless technology. Competing standards just make things unnecessarily complicated.
In my dreams, I also imagine a less subsidy/contract/nickel-and-dime-driven mobile marketplace, where compatible, open networks compete for business by driving the costs of data access downwards (since all traffic is data, really) and removing complicated "minutes/texts/data" plans from the picture... But those are just dreams.