CDG talks up growth of CDMA2000

Stuart Corner
Thursday, 16 February 2006 07:56

IT Industry - Strategy

The CDMA Development Group says that the CDMA2000 subscriber base (the 3G version of 3G) reached 225 million users worldwide at the end of 2005 and now accounts for 82 percent of the global 3G user base.

It says the figure represents a 25 million increase over Q3 and 78 million more than the previous year. "Today, CDMA2000 controls 82 percent of the 3G market and is adding new users at a rate of 8 million per month, faster than WCDMA and GSM in the first years of their introduction. More than 74 percent of CDMA users access 3G today, compared to 61 percent last year," CDG says.

CDMA2000 is deployed in 67 countries across all continents, and while Asia and North America remain the largest markets for CDMA2000, 27 million (>10 percent) of CDMA2000 subscribers reside in Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America, Europe and the Middle East, and this number is growing rapidly, especially in Latin America. In Asia, with 111 million users, CDMA2000 commands 14 percent market share. In North America, CDMA2000 has 88 million subscribers, or 40 percent of the market share, and in Latin America, with 24 million users, the technology has captured 10 percent of the market.