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August 13, 2005
Africa's largest cell operator launches wireless broadband
Movicel, Africa's largest mobile operator has selected Nortel to upgrade it's CDMA cell network to CDMA2000* 1xEV-DO providing high speed wireless broadband access in Angola.
The new service would address growing nationwide demand for advanced wireless data services like telemedicine and Internet access.
Evolution Data Only or Evolution Data Optimized, often abbreviated as EVDO, EV-DO, EvDO, 1xEV-DO or 1xEvDO is a wireless radio broadband data protocol being adopted by many CDMA mobile phone providers in Brazil, Japan, Korea, Israel, the United States, and Canada as part of the cdma2000 standard. EV-DO provides data rates upto 2.4 MBPS.
Posted by admin at August 13, 2005 07:40 AM