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Cellular Technology Evolution

0G: Mobile radio telephones (e.g. MTS)


1G: Analog
2G/3G/4G .. - digital:

GSM/3GPP Family cdmaOne/CDMA2000 Family

GSM
cdmaOne/IS-95
2G GPRS

EDGE

UMTS, WCDMA
3G CDMA2000 EV-DO
HSPA
4G LTE

GSM : Global System for Mobile

3GPP : 3rd Generation Partnership Project

GPRS : General Packet Radio Service

EDGE : Enhanced Data Rate for GSM Evolution

UMTS : Universal Mobile Telecommunication Service/System

WCDMA : Wideband CDMA

HSPA : High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) is an amalgamation of two mobile telephony
protocols, High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) and High Speed Uplink Packet Access
(HSUPA), that extends and improves the performance of existing 3rd generation mobile
telecommunication networks utilizing the WCDMA protocols. A further improved 3GPP
standard, Evolved HSPA (also known as HSPA+), was released late in 2008 with subsequent
worldwide adoption beginning in 2010. The newer standard allows bit-rates to reach as high as
168 Mbit/s in the downlink and 22 Mbit/s in the uplink.

LTE : Long Term Evolution

EV-DO : Evolution Data-Optimized

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