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ZoSo, on Feb 14 2008, 11:07 PM, said:
That is absolutely not true. CDMA has stopped with EV-DO, examining GSM's continuous wave of improving data transmission protocols -- most of which take forever to make it to this side of the pond -- GSM is clearly the more heavily invested, developed, evolving, and more practical choice, if not for its potential and versatility alone. CDMA is stagnant. That is why I said that GSM is "leaps and bounds" ahead of GSM in terms of data networks.
Actually, I have to retract a statement of mine.
After consulting with Wikipedia and asking for concensus with a mobile phone community, HSDPA and other more recent data protocols aren't even a subset family of GSM although the industry tends to market it as a direct branch of GSM!
For example HSDPA is technically classified as a subset of UMTS, which is different and distinct from GSM and was designed to succeed GSM. In a twist of irony, many networks offer UMTS using the W-CDMA standard.
But long story short, further developments on GSM is futile. It's like trying to continuously improve the Ford Model A... it's time to move on to a different platform! CDMA has some more life left to it, but it's not that too far off from GSM. Both are becoming outdated technologies.
