Why is Apple looking for field techs with CDMA experience for testing3G iPhone?

from http://iphoneforest.com/apple-posts-...e-testers.html
Apple Posts Job Openings For 3G iPhone Testers

Apple has posted some interesting Job listings on several of their
international websites that appear to be related with testing the 3G
iPhone. One listing for a position based in Sydney, Australia, asks
for someone who has “technical understanding and experience with GSM/
GPRS, EDGE, CDMA and UMTS”. The person in that position will be in
charge with investigating connectivity issues reported by customers
and field operatives.

What’s confusing about this is that GPRS, EDGE, and GSM are
already used in the iPhone, but CDMA is a different technology
altogether.

The description makes mention of “testing and debug of GSM
communications systems” and “experience in field testing and knowledge
of interworking of cellular carriers”.

More listings based in the UK are for the positions of iPhone
Field Validation Engineers, listing identical credentials. A position
in Germany is open for an iPhone Certification Project Manager, who
“will apply his/her detailed technical knowledge of wireless standards
(3G, Wi-Fi) to understand, prioritize and resolve issues found during
certification”.

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Could it be that CDMA causes interference with some GSM phones?

4phun wrote:
> from http://iphoneforest.com/apple-posts-...e-testers.html
> Apple Posts Job Openings For 3G iPhone Testers
>
> Apple has posted some interesting Job listings on several of their
> international websites that appear to be related with testing the 3G
> iPhone. One listing for a position based in Sydney, Australia, asks
> for someone who has “technical understanding and experience with GSM/
> GPRS, EDGE, CDMA and UMTS”. The person in that position will be in
> charge with investigating connectivity issues reported by customers
> and field operatives.
>
> What’s confusing about this is that GPRS, EDGE, and GSM are
> already used in the iPhone, but CDMA is a different technology
> altogether.

The 3G in the new iPhone is W-CDMA. But they also could be doing a
version for South Korea that is CDMA. Such a phone could also be used on
Verizon and Sprint, if the carriers allowed it to be used. A CDMA iPhone
would probably be a big seller. A lot of areas in the U.S. have CDMA
coverage but no GSM coverage, and CDMA has more users in the U.S. than GSM.

Which Verizon has said they would. "Open System" Would be something to see
if someone has one and they try to get Verizon to allow it on there network.

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> 4phun wrote:
>> from
>> http://iphoneforest.com/apple-posts-...e-testers.html
>> Apple Posts Job Openings For 3G iPhone Testers
>>
>> Apple has posted some interesting Job listings on several of their
>> international websites that appear to be related with testing the 3G
>> iPhone. One listing for a position based in Sydney, Australia, asks
>> for someone who has “technical understanding and experience with GSM/
>> GPRS, EDGE, CDMA and UMTS”. The person in that position will be in
>> charge with investigating connectivity issues reported by customers
>> and field operatives.
>>
>> What’s confusing about this is that GPRS, EDGE, and GSM are
>> already used in the iPhone, but CDMA is a different technology
>> altogether.
>
> The 3G in the new iPhone is W-CDMA. But they also could be doing a version
> for South Korea that is CDMA. Such a phone could also be used on Verizon
> and Sprint, if the carriers allowed it to be used. A CDMA iPhone would
> probably be a big seller. A lot of areas in the U.S. have CDMA coverage
> but no GSM coverage, and CDMA has more users in the U.S. than GSM.