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Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN) is a mobile communications technology, developed by Motorola, which provides its users the benefits of a trunked radio and a cellular telephone. iDEN places more users in a given spectral space, compared to analog cellular systems, by using time division multiple access (TDMA). Up to six communication channels share a 25 kHz space; some competing technologies place only one channel in 12.5 kHz.
In the United States there are two iDEN service providers: Sprint/Nextel and SouthernLINC Wireless. Countries which have operating iDEN networks not currently connected with the US include Canada, Jordan, Israel, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Japan, El Salvador and China.
Motorola is committed to continued support of iDEN technology despite the Sprint buyout of Nextel and Sprint/Nextel's supposed eventual conversion to Sprint's CDMA system. Nextel has stated they will support iDEN until at least 2010, while other iDEN carriers have no forseeable expiration date for their services. iDEN's Push-To-Talk feature is the fastest in the industry.
There is a smaller subset of the iDEN network called "Harmony", With Small System Release 4.0, it supports a maximum limit of 192 sites.
Countries operating iDEN networks
- Argentina: Nextel Argentina
- Brazil: Nextel Brazil
- Canada: TELUS
- Chile
- China (selected areas)
- Colombia Avantel
- Dominican Republic Verizon Dominicana
- El Salvador
- Israel: MiRS
- Japan
- Jordan: XPress, *
- Korea
- Mexico: Nextel Mexico
- Peru: Nextel Peru
- Philippines: Next Mobile
- Saudi Arabia: Bravo Telecom, *
- Singapore: DNA Communications
- United States: Nextel, SouthernLINC Wireless
See also
External links
"Integrated Digital Enhanced Network"