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 | | The key advantage of GSM systems from the point of view of the consumer has been early delivery of new services at low costs, for example text messaging was developed first for GSM, whilst the advantage for network operators has been the low infrastructure cost which is caused by open competition. |
 | | GSM has remained backward compatible with the original GSM phones, at the same time, the GSM standard continues to develop and packet data capabilities were added in the Release '97 version of the standard with GPRS. |
 | | GSM's main competitor, CDMA2000, is used primarily in the United States, although it was seeing increased, but limited, worldwide adoption as a stepping stone to a 3G standard when WCDMA did not appear to be fully functional. |
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