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<br />by the way they use the same principal.
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They are but they dont hav the money, vodacoms infrastructure is there already techies are working on it as we speak.
EXAMPLE
The network will be an expansion of Verizon's BroadbandAccess service, a 3G wide-area network with speeds ranging from 300-500kbps. The network has already been successfully deployed in Washington, D.C. and San Diego, California since October 2003
check out this site on 3G services http://www.three.co.uk/explore/about3/overview.omp
I LIKE FREE DOWNLOADS
I DOWNLOAD EVERYTHIN OFF
THE NET(dont pay its wrong LMAO)
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You're missing one important bit of information. Verizon is built on CDMA, the network foreigns loved to ridicule because in earlier years the United States didn't have one network. Well now it does, and the move from CDMA 1x to CDMA EV-DO (the 3G CDMA service) is significantly cheaper than moving from GSM to W-CDMA. For one, both are CDMA whereas the GSM to W-CDMA move is a move from TDMA to CDMA. New frequencies needed, total new equipment, and this ain't cheap.
THAT is why CDMA EV-DO is cheaper and being rolled out faster than any W-CDMA offer out there from the GSM companies in North America (AT&T, Cingular, T-mobile, Rogers, Fido, etc.)
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