ZTE Announces EV-DO Rev B on CDMA2000 System

stevedusa · #1 (**permalink**) 02-27-2009, 03:05 PM

http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english...090227/166451/

And the best part?

"Compared with mature commercial EV-DO Rev A, what ZTE's EV-DO Rev B does is upgrade EV-DO Rev A's software, with no additional hardware equipment required. Both ZTE's EV-DO Rev A and Rev B adopt an identical baseband chipset."

SWEET...

**imneveral0ne** · #2 (**permalink**) 02-28-2009, 03:58 AM

well damn, im excited

hopefully they will offer this here

Mutiny32 · #3 (**permalink**) 03-01-2009, 08:46 PM

Looks like Rev.B is just channel bonding. I wonder if current Rev.A infrastructures deployed by US carriers can just upgrade the software on their Rev.A hardware to support channel bonding. It would seem that this would be something the carriers would look for when purchasing baseband products that supported Rev. A.

Handsets, on the other hand, would not just be software upgradeable, as it requires a more robust radio. I could be wrong.