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81% of all mobile digital wireless customers us GSM - HSDPA coming on strong!

3G Americas reported today that 81% of all mobile digital wireless customers worldwide use the GSM family of technologies -- GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA. In fact, from fourth quarter 2004 to fourth quarter 2005, GSM grew by more than 400 million subscribers, compared to the total base of 291 million CDMA customers at year end 2005. Today, there are an estimated 1.8 billion customers in 213 countries around the world using various evolutions of the GSM technology, all with the potential for worldwide roaming.
Some interesting numbers:
  • UMTS is commercially deployed by 103 operators in 47 countries with an additional 93 operators in 23 other countries that have made significant UMTS announcements
  • There are more than 250 UMTS devices provided to the market to date
  • HSDPA has been deployed by ten operators in the past four months - Cingular was first in US
  • In the past 30 days six HSDPA launches

More on 3G and HSDPA at www.3gamericas.org
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