IS-95 CDMA and cdma2000: Cellular/PCS Systems Implementation

Preface

The global mobile communications market is booming. There are almost 250 million users worldwide and should be nearly 1 billion by early next century. Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) is the fastest-growing digital wireless technology, tripling its worldwide subscriber base between 1997 and 1998. There are already 30 million CDMA customers and, at the current growth rate, there will be 50 million by the millennium. The major markets for CDMA are North America, Latin America, and Asia (particularly Japan and Korea). In total, CDMA has been adopted by almost 50 countries around the world.

It is not hard to see the reasons for the success of CDMA. CDMA is an advanced digital technology that can offer about 7 to 10 times the capacity ...