CDMA, from an RF performance perspective regularly outperformed GSM, but as is noted downthread, the provisioning/auth system was inherited from AMPS/D-AMPS, CD

CDMA, from an RF performance perspective regularly outperformed GSM, but as is noted downthread, the provisioning/auth system was inherited from AMPS/D-AMPS, CDMA2000 with a GSM network core would have been amazing. Which, tbh, is exactly what LTE is.