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14 9 2002
According to the most recent numbers from the
CDMA Development Group, there are now over 127
million CDMA subscribers worldwide - and CDMA2000 has 99 percent of the 3G
market.
The CDMA Development Group (CDG) recently reported that the CDMA technology
saw more than 127 million subscribers at the end of the second quarter of
2002, all the while CDMA2000 subscribers - designated on a whole by the CDG
as a 3G technology despite its 1xRTT substandard not fulfilling the
requirements of the IMT-2000 specification - grew to 15 million worldwide as
of July 2002.
Over the past year, CDMA subscribers grew by 32 percent, while the CDMA2000
base increased nearly 21 times.
CDMA is the leading technology in North America, where with
55.3 million subscribers, CDMA increased its market share from 43 to 47
percent.
In Latin America, the number of CDMA subscribers grew by
more than 40 percent in the past year, reaching 24 million in 15 countries.
The CDMA2000 base has nearly doubled in the past four months and is now
growing at a rate of 1.8 million per month. The CDG said that with a 99
percent market share, CDMA2000 dominates 3G today, continuing its push to
dub CDMA2000 technology - of which the vast majority are built upon CDMA2000
1xRTT networks not fulfilling the minimum requirements of the IMT-2000
specification for a technology to be dubbed 3G - as just that.
The adoption rate of the technology is however impressive in Asia: In Korea,
38 percent of subscribers use CDMA2000 technology and in Japan, KDDI has
signed on 1.67 million CDMA2000 customers in only five months.
KDDI adds on average 10,000 new CDMA2000 subscribers a day,
and expects to have 7 million, or 40 percent of their base, using services
in their CDMA2000 network by March 2003.
During the first seven months of 2002, 11 CDMA2000 networks
were launched in Asia and the Americas bringing the total number of CDMA2000
service providers to 18.
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