NEW ORLEANS-The CDMA Development Group reported close to 23 million global Code
Division Multiple Access technology subscribers for 1998 after adding about 15 million customers during the
year.
In North America, cdmaOne customers now total 6.8 million, growing 453 percent in the last year and more
than 150 percent in the last quarter. In Latin America, cdmaOne users grew 400 percent in the last quarter, as new
operators launched service in Brazil, Mexico and Peru.
The CDG said the Asia-Pacific region now totals close to 15
million cdmaOne subscribers, up about 133 percent in the last quarter and 237 percent for all of 1998.
“Now,
with 23 million subscribers, cdmaOne has continued to outpace its own record-breaking growth rate,” said Perry
LaForge, executive director of the CDG. “With the advent of wireless Internet access, high-speed data, and
wireless local loop applications, we know this will continue. We anticipate at least 40 million cdmaOne global
subscribers as we enter the year 2000, positioning cdmaOne as the technology for the new millennium.”
