   |
| Home > Resources > About iDen |
| First introduced in 1994, Motorola's Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN™) brought to the market next generation wireless solutions designed for a variety of vertical market mobile business applications. Today, iDEN wireless handsets are utilized in a variety of work environments ranging from manufacturing floors and fleet services to executive conference rooms as well as mobile sales forces. |
|
| Why Motorola's iDen technology? |
|
| Motorola pioneered the use of push-to-talk (PTT) two-way radio communications. Motorola's iDEN technology has been in use for the last 14 years across several networks in 37 countries with a growing global subscriber base of 29 million. |
|
| Here are some powerful reasons why iDEN is the most preferred digital wireless technology around the world today: |
|
 |
iDEN technology of Motorola is the most time tested and most spectral efficient among three technologies. |
|
|
Tetra is open protocol and is being used mostly for captive networks such as Public Safety etc. Tetra Handsets are prohibitively expensive (Not less than USD 600 per handset). |
|
|
GOTA, the Chinese technology is yet to see commercial launch anywhere in the world. |
|
|
iDEN technology is operational in 22 countries with 28 million subscribers, Nextel being the largest network in USA with 22 million subscribers. |
|
|
With more and more iDEN network getting rolled out, costs of the infrastructure as well as handsets are coming down. |
|
|
