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From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about LTE. Here is what it replaced:
iDEN served 1994–2013. What ultimately replaced it?
iDEN motorola's TDMA system that layered digital cellular voice, data, and near-instant push-to-talk (Direct Connect) onto fragmented SMR radio channels. Its job passed to LTE — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
On this day
October 16From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.