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Originally Posted by Brave Ulysses
Correction. WCDMA. Used in Japan.
Still CDMA technology.
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Japan's FOMA (as well as UMTS/3GSM) does indeed use W-CDMA, but that's a 3G network. What the US has is CDMA2000, which is 2G. The two are technologically similar (hence the same "CDMA" in their names), but ultimately still incompatible. And for 3G data transfer, the US's CDMA networks won't use HSDPA, but EV-DO, which is also incompatible.
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and Sprint? You don't even deny there is a market of millions of CDMA users out there.
That's a viable market.
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I don't think Kraetos is denying that there is a large market of CDMA users in the US, but with Apple's intention of trying to do exclusive contracts wherever possible (e.g., also in Europe), a CDMA iPhone version for the US seems quite unlikely.