1) CDMA 2000 is an up gradation of 2 and2.5G CDMA technology.

2) It supports much higher data rates as compared to those of 2G and 2.5G systems.

3) Fundamental principle is the high speed data packet network designed for mobility using internet protocol.

4) Channel bandwidth 1.25MHz per radio channel

5) Up gradation ensures backward compatibility with existing CDMA.

6) It has improved capabilities over W-CDMA at each cell can be introduced without changing the base station entirely.

7) Number of users that can be supported by 3G CDMA 2000 is almost twice the users supported by 2G CDMA system.

8) longer battery life.

9) It has wide range of telecommunication services such as voice, data, multimedia, internet etc.

10) It can operate in multiple radio environment such as cellular, cordless, satellite ,LAN etc.