Mobile Alphabet Soup

The mobile standards are not for the faint of heart. Here is a soup, thanks to Wikipedia. I can honestly say I can talk about three of them, CDMAone, CDMA2000, EVDO. If you insist I can talk the level of bits, channels and network. We all need a device that is mobile, allows us to stay in touch with the world through voice, email, video and web. So the question to you and I as mobile users is, "why do we care about this soup?"

Mobile communication standards

3GPP / GERAN / UTRAN / LTE Family

2G GSM GPRS EDGE (EGPRS) EDGE Evolution (Evolved EDGE) HSCSD

3G W-CDMA UMTS (3GSM) FOMA UMTS-TDD TD-CDMA TD-SCDMA HSPA HSDPA HSUPA HSPA+ GAN (UMA)

Pre-4G UMTS Revision 8 LTE HSOPA (Super 3G)

3GPP2 / cdmaOne / CDMA2000 Family

2G cdmaOne

3G CDMA2000 EV-DO

Pre-4G UMB

Other Technologies

0G PTT MTS IMTS AMTS OLT MTD Autotel / PALM ARP

1G NMT AMPS / TACS / ETACS Hicap CDPD Mobitex DataTAC

2G iDEN D-AMPS PDC CSD PHS WiDEN

Pre-4G iBurst HIPERMAN WiMAX WiBro (Mobile WiMAX)

Frequency bands SMR Cellular PCS

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