Hong Kong’s Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) is to release spectrum through an open auction to enable the provision of CDMA2000 services in Hong Kong beginning November 2008. The auction is expected to be held in Q4 2007 when the OFTA will grant one license to a CDMA2000 operator in the standard 850 MHz band for voice and advanced broadband data services. Currently, CDMA voice services and roaming are available in Hong Kong. However, this spectrum allocation will enable the provision of CDMA2000 1xEV-DO advanced broadband data services and international data roaming. Hong Kong will join nearby Macau, which has already launched CDMA2000 1X services and will soon introduce 1xEV-DO Rev A broadband data services.

In South Africa, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has announced that is is allocating spectrum in the 800 MHz frequency band to Neotel and Thinta Thinta.  Neotel will become the first CDMA fixed wireless operator to offer affordable 3G telephony and broadband data services to South Africa's more than 47 million citizens nationwide. Thinta Thinta, the first CDMA service provider to be awarded an Underserved Area License (USAL), will provide similar advanced 3G services within the Kwa Zulu - Natal Province.
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