The CDMA Development Group (CDG) has announced that the number of CDMA2000 3G subscribers worldwide surpassed 250mn in the 1Q 2006. CDMA2000 operators added more than 25mn new users in the first three months of the year, driven by strong growth in the Americas and Asia. CDMA2000 1xEV-DO gained a record 6mn new subscribers to reach 30mn users. In the first five years of commercial introduction, CDMA2000 grew much faster than GSM and WCDMA. In the past seven months alone, CDMA2000 networks added more subscribers than WCDMA gained in the four years since it was first introduced.
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