Alphabet soup... the [di]verging state of wireless network technologies

wireless.tech - historical 0g - 4g

Ran across this list today and thought it might add some additional affirmation to some comments I made in a previous post about the state of wireless networking technologies.

0G

* PTT
* MTS
* IMTS
* AMTS

0.5G

* Autotel/PALM
* ARP

1G

* NMT
* AMPS
* Hicap

2G

* GSM
* iDEN
* D-AMPS
* cdmaOne
* PDC

2.5G

* GPRS
* WiDEN

2.75G

* CDMA2000 1xRTT
* EDGE

3G

* W-CDMA
o UMTS
o FOMA
* CDMA2000 1xEV
* TD-SCDMA

3.5G

* HSDPA

3.75G

* HSUPA

4G
* ?????