With major CDMA2000 operators announcing plans left and right to deploy a next-generation wireless technology that falls outside of the 3GPP2 family, questions exist regarding the near- and long-term prospects of CDMA2000 and EV-DO.

While we do not intend to focus once again on these specific operator decisions and why they are seemingly moving away from the 3GPP2 family of technologies, we thought it would be interesting to spend some time looking at what is happening with the technology at an aggregate level, if there are any growth areas, and if so what is driving the growth, the prospects for EV-DO Rev B, and the role that CDMA2000/EV-DO will play in an operator's strategy as it moves to next-generation OFDMA-based 3G technologies.