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Data Rates Supported by Cellular Standards

This table shows specified data rates for various wireless standards, including WiFi, WLAN, WiMax, WCDMA, GSM, EDGE, ZigBee.

Wireless data rates chart cellular WLAN 802.11 Bluetooth DCS, PCS, GSM, EGSM, CDMA W-CDMA UMTS DECT PDC - RF Cafe

Data Rates Supported By Cellular Standards

Cellular

Family

 Standard Peak Data Rate

(kbits/s)

 Typical Data Rate Connection Modulation
GSM GSM-CSD

HS-CSD

GPRS

EDGE

 9.6/14.4

28.8/43/2

115/171

384/513

 9.6

28.8

50

115

 Circuit Switched

Circuit Switched

Packet Switched

Packet Switched

 GMSK

GMSK

GMSK

8-PSK
UMTS FDD

TDD

 384/2000

384/2000

 144

144

 Packet Switched

Packet Switched

 QPSK

QPSK
CDMAOne IS-95A

IS-95B

 14.4

64/115

 14.4

56

 Circuit Switched

Packet Switched

 QPSK

QPSK
CDMA2000 IX

IX EV

 144/307

2000

 130

N/K

 Packet Switched

Packet Switched

 QPSK

QPSK
TDMA CSD 9.6 9.6 Circuit Switched π/4 QPSK
PDC i-mode 9.5 9.6 Packet Switched π/4 QPSK

 

Data obtained from Philips 2002 & 2004 Worldwide Wireless Telecommunications Standards chart

About RF Cafe

Kirt Blattenberger - RF Cafe Webmaster

Copyright: 1996 - 2025
Webmaster: Kirt Blattenberger,
   BSEE - KB3UON - AMA92498

RF Cafe began life in 1996 as "RF Tools" in an AOL screen name web space totaling 2 MB. Its primary purpose was to provide me with ready access to commonly needed formulas and reference material while performing my work as an RF system and circuit design engineer. The World Wide Web (Internet) was largely an unknown entity at the time and bandwidth was a scarce commodity. Dial-up modems blazed along at 14.4 kbps while tying up your telephone line, and a lady's voice announced "You've Got Mail" when a new message arrived...

Copyright  1996 - 2026

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