Here are links for you:

http://www.mobileisgood.com/CDMA2000_evolution.html
http://www.mobileisgood.com/WhatIsUMTS.html (second one for W-CDMA)


"Joe" <abc@xyz.org> wrote in message
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> for those of us new to cell phones, could someone define CDMA2000 and
> WCDMA?
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> "John Navas" <spamfilter0@navasgroup.com> wrote in message
> news:ii5gj297q74b6jgtg05hq2t1t62fdkmqp0@4ax.com...
>> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:02:43 -0400, Diamond Dave
>> <dmine45.NOSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote in
>> <rtpfj21isj3olvalggh7ctu4590ci6i8jj@4ax.com>:
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>>>On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:25:34 GMT, John Navas
>>><spamfilter0@navasgroup.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>><http://www.theregister.com/2006/10/19/nokia_results/>
>>>>
>>>> Nokia has consolidated its position as the world's leading mobile
>>>> phone maker and announced a 20 per cent rise in net sales during its
>>>> fiscal third quarter.
>>>
>>>I guess you'd care if you had a GSM phone on a GSM carrier. Nokia is
>>>leaving the CDMA market, which is fine by me because I don't care for
>>>their phones anyhow - GSM or CDMA.
>>
>> Nokia is leaving the CDMA 2000 market (not the WCDMA market) because "it
>> sees [it] as a shrinking market in the longer term".
>>
>> --
>> Best regards, FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS:
>> John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ>
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