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manderley
on Aug 19, 2022
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Shazam turns 20
GSM, not CDMA.
post-it
on Aug 19, 2022
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CDMA on Verizon and Sprint in the USA and Bell and Telus in Canada, at the time.
sbuk
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"> August 2002: Shazam launches as a text message service based in the UK."
AFAIR, we never had CDMA
in the UK
, so what Verizon et al. were using is irrelevant.
gridder
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Yeah but we’re talking about UK here…. So GSM is correct.
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