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| 1989-1992 |
First CDMA concept, technical
development |
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| 1989 |
| November |
CDMA cellular concept developed |
| November |
First open demonstration (San Diego) |
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| 1990 |
| February |
First demonstration by an operator (NYNEX in New York City)
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| 1991 |
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First large-scale capacity tests (San Diego) |
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| 1992 |
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First CDMA network equipment ordered (U.S. West) |
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CDMA soft hand-off patent granted |
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| 1993 |
CDMA is standardized, a new wireless
industry segment grows |
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IS-95A standard complete |
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U.S. TIA adopts CDMA as a North American digital standard |
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First commercial CDMA market trial |
| December |
CDMA Development Group (CDG) is formed |
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| 1995 |
CDMA is launched commercially
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CDMA standardized for U.S. PCS band |
| September |
World's first commercial launch of IS-95A (Hutchison Telecom,
Hong Kong) |
| December |
13 kbps vocoder for high quality voice developed by CDG |
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| 1996 |
CDMA expands across Asia and
the Americas |
| March |
First U.S. launch of IS-95A cellular service (Bell Atlantic
Mobile) |
| October |
First U.S. PCS IS-95A launch (PrimeCo Personal Communications)
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| December |
First Latin America launch of IS-95A (Telefonica del Peru)
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| December |
More than 1 million CDMA subscribers worldwide |
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| 1997 |
cdmaOne and IS-95B are introduced |
| April |
First Canadian launch of IS-95A cellular service (BC TEL Mobility)
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| May |
First IS-95A WLL launch (MTNL, India) |
| June |
IS-95B standard complete; includes 64 kbps data |
| June |
cdmaOne™ brand name launched by CDG for IS-95 CDMA |
| October |
First Canadian launch of PCS cdmaOne (Bell Mobility and Clearnet
Communications) |
| December |
7.8 million CDMA subscribers worldwide |
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| 1998 |
A seamless 3G evolution for cdmaOne
is developed |
| March |
LG Telecom ( Korea) launches first CDMA data services |
| April |
TIA endorses wideband cdmaOne (aka CDMA2000) for ITU 3G solution
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| April |
Statement of need defined for CDMA2000 Phase 1 (aka CDMA2000
1X) |
| June |
CDMA2000 submitted to ITU for IMT-2000 |
| December |
23 million CDMA subscribers worldwide |
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First 1xEV-DO demonstration |
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| 1999 |
CDMA2000 endorsed for IMT-2000
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| April |
Operators across North America, Korea and Japan begin launching
cdmaOne Internet and information services |
| May |
Operators complete CDMA harmonization agreement for IMT-2000
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| July |
Phase 1 CDMA2000® standard complete and approved
for publication |
| November |
ITU-R Task Group 8/1 endorses CDMA2000 standards (three modes)
for IMT-2000 |
| December |
50.1 million CDMA subscribers worldwide; 83 operators in 35
countries |
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| 2000 |
CDMA2000 is launched commercially
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| January |
IDO Corporation and DDI Cellular Group "PacketOne"
packet transmission service for cellular phones with maximum-speed of 64kbps
launches nationwide |
| February |
Motorola and Sprint PCS achieve commercial wireless interoperability
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| March |
First CDMA2000 1X voice calls successfully completed |
| April |
TIA approves CDMA SIM standard for publication |
| June |
First 3G CDMA2000 1X data transmission completed |
| June |
CDMA2000 1xEV introduced to global marketplace by the CDG |
| October |
First ever CDMA-GSM interoperable SIM card introduced to the
global market |
| October |
SK Telecom and LG Telecom (South Korea) launch world's first
3G commercial services using CDMA2000 |
| December |
80.4 million CDMA subscribers worldwide |
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| 2001 |
Evolution of CDMA2000 recognized
as part of IMT-2000; 100 million CDMA subscribers worldwide
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| March |
CDMA2000 1xEV-DV successfully demonstrated in labs |
| March |
KDDI announces completion of CDMA2000 1xEV-DO calls |
| June |
CDMA2000 1xEV-DO recognized as part of the 3G IMT-2000 standard
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| August |
1 million commercial CDMA2000 1X subscribers |
| September |
100 million CDMA subscribers worldwide |
| December |
111.4 million CDMA subscribers worldwide / 3.7 million CDMA2000
subscribers |
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First mobile IP call made |
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CDMA/GSM roaming using R-UIM enabled handsets is demonstrated
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1xEV-DO trial successfully completed |
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First CDMA450 network commercially launched (Zapp Mobile, Romania)
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| 2002 |
CDMA2000 1xEV-DO is launched
commercially |
| January |
SK Telecom (South Korea) launches world's first CDMA2000 1xEV-DO
network |
| May |
10 million commercial CDMA2000 subscribers |
| June |
Third Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2) and Telecommunications
Industry Association (TIA) approve CDMA2000 1xEV-DV (Data-Voice) for publication
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| December |
146.7 million CDMA subscribers worldwide / 32.6 million CDMA2000
subscribers |
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| 2003 |
CDMA2000 1X reaches worldwide
penetration |
| May |
50 million commercial CDMA2000 subscribers |
| May |
1 million commercial CDMA2000 1xEV-DO subscribers |
| December |
188.6 million CDMA subscribers worldwide / 85.4 million CDMA2000
subscribers |
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| 2004 |
CDMA2000 1xEV-DO is broadly deployed;
100 million commercial CDMA2000 subscribers |
| March |
CDMA2000 1xEV-DV Revision D approved by Third Generation Partnership
Project 2 (3GPP2) |
| March |
5 million commercial CDMA2000 1xEV-DO subscribers |
| April |
CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision A approved by Third Generation Partnership
Project 2 (3GPP2) |
| June |
100 million commercial CDMA2000 subscribers |
| August |
Eurotel Praha (Czech Republic) launches world's first CDMA2000
1xEV-DO network at 450 MHz (CDMA450) |
| December |
240.2 million CDMA subscribers worldwide / 146.8 million CDMA2000
subscribers |
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2005 |
CDMA celebrates 10 years of commercial
success |
| March |
256 million CDMA subscribers worldwide |
| June |
185 million commercial CDMA2000 subscribers worldwide |
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