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RFTraveler
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When you say "it's been a long time" since you used CDMA...carriers are building their networks all the time, increasing coverage and capacity. I worked for a carrier in the early 2000's that had a footprint that now would be laughably poor.
As said above - it ALL depends on where you are and what you're doing. Aside from domestic coverage issues,
typically Asia favors CDMA while Europe favors GSM. Technologically there is no reason why, at the same frequency and with the same cell site that GSM would outperform CDMA. In fact, IS-95/CDMA2000 should actually work at a lower signal level in a low noise environment.
RFTraveler
I suppose Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Pakistan, India, Iran, Uzbegistan, Tadjikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and even China, as also many other countries either don't count, or are not in Asia.
Lower Frequencies means less attentuation (transmission loss).