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 Chapter 5 Broadband
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Table 10   
2G, 2.5G, 2.75G, 3G and 3.5G Wireless Technologies
NAME
TYPE
MOBILE PHONE AND DATA STANDARDS
DATA 
SPEED
GSM-BASED
CDMA-BASED
2G Circuit-
switched
GSM (Global System for Mobile 
Communications), Personal Handy-
phone System (PHS), etc.
Interim Standard 95 (IS-95), the first 
CDMA-based digital cellular standard 
pioneered by Qualcomm. The brand 
name for IS-95 is cdmaOne. IS-95 is 
also known as TIA-EIA-95.
Slow
Fast
2.5G
Packet-
switched
GPRS (General Packet Radio 
Services), High-Speed Circuit-
Switched Data (HSCSD), etc.
CDMA2000 is a hybrid 2.5G / 3G 
protocol of mobile telecommunications 
standards that use CDMA, a multiple 
access scheme for digital radio. 
CDMA2000 1xRTT (1 times Radio 
Transmission Technology) is the core 
CDMA2000 wireless air interface 
standard. It is also known as 1x, 1xRTT, 
or IS-2000 and considered to be a 2.5G 
or 2.75G technology.  
2.75G
Packet-
switched
Enhanced Data rates for GSM 
Evolution (EDGE), Enhanced GPRS 
(EGPRS), etc. 
3G Packet-
switched
UMTS (Universal Mobile 
Telecommunications System), a third-
generation (3G) wireless standard 
defined in ITU
A
 specification, is 
sometimes marketed as 3GSM. The 
UMTS uses GSM infrastructures and 
W-CDMA (Wideband Code Division 
Multiple Access) as the air interface.
CDMA2000 EV-DO (Evolution-Data 
Optimized, originally 1x Evolution-Data 
Only), also referred to as EV-DO, EVDO, 
or just EV, is an evolution of CDMA2000 
1xRTT and enables high-speed wireless 
connectivity. It is also denoted as IS-
856 or High Data Rate (HDR).
3.5G
Packet-
switched
HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet 
Access) is a mobile telephony 
protocol, used for UMTS-based 3G 
networks and allows for higher data 
transfer speeds. 
A. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is an international organization within which governments and the private sector 
coordinate global telecom networks and services.