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CDMA BEING USED BY MORE THAN 100 MILLION PEOPLE IN INDIA.

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The CDMA Development Group (CDG) (www.cdg.org) has announced that there are now more than 100 million CDMA subscribers in India, making it the world's second-largest CDMA market. Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices are placed among the top five CDMA operators globally, ranking second and fourth, respectively. The rapid growth of CDMA users in India is attributed to a wide selection of affordable devices - ranging from entry level handsets to feature-rich smartphones - and the introduction of CDMA2000(r) voice and data services into urban and rural areas, helping to reshape the communications culture of India.

Since CDMA mobile services were introduced in December 2002, the cellular landscape in India changed rapidly. Efforts led by CDMA operators, device manufacturers, technology enablers and the CDG introduced an array of entry-level handsets to the market while tariffs dropped by more than 40 percent. As a result, CDMA reached 50 million subscribers in India twice as fast as any competing cellular technology, and at the same time greatly increased voice telephony and wireless Internet connectivity in India. Now, recently-introduced CDMA mobile broadband solutions are poised...

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