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by Fred Grott.
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Many of you were puzzled last month over Nokia' move to abandond CDMA as far as manufacturing handsets. And, as predicted the main stream press got wrong again or at least forgot that there are many reasons not just business ones.
What do I mean? Well, what is the major grwoth market among both CDMA Mobile Providers and Mobile Developers in the USA? No , not games but GPS/location based services. As this post points out Sprint and possibly other operators are not set up for LBS data access to any small companies, it is all locked up as big fee access.
On GSM networks to get LBS data you only need to pay the certification costs and the cert fee for a key to get LBS access and no big fees invovled. Over the long temr this CDMA Mobile Operator in USA will falter in producing less innnovative LBS applications and less revenue for CDMA Mobile Operators.
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