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Re:Cellphone-Cancer Link Found in Government Study by p1mrx on Friday May 27, 2016 @10:31AM (#11786269)
Pretty much everyone uses CDMA these days. 3G/UMTS and 4G/LTE are both based on CDMA, which transmits continuously, unlike 2G/GSM/EDGE, which transmits in pulses and makes the dit-dit-dit-bzzz sound in nearby speakers.

Edit: actually LTE uses OFDM, which is mathematically distinct from CDMA, but a naive receiver is unlikely to notice the difference.

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Re:Cellphone-Cancer Link Found in Government Study by mkehrt on Friday May 27, 2016 @11:09AM (#11786502)
"CDMA" means something different than "code division multiple access" multiplexing when contrasted with GSM.

Instead it refers to the CDMA2000 family of telephony protocols (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDMA2000), which are a series of whole stack (radio modulation all the way up to text encoding schemes) protocols. Calling it "CDMA" is a branding thing than rather than having anything to do with multiplexing.

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