Whats the difference between CDMA & TDMA?
Let’s begin by learning what these two acronyms stand for. TDMA stands for “Time Division Multiple Access”, while CDMA stands for “Code Division Multiple Access”. Three of the four words in each acronym are identical, since each technology essentially achieves the same goal, but by using different methods. Each strives to better utilize the radio spectrum by allowing multiple users to share the same physical channel. You heard that right. More than one person can carry on a conversation on the same frequency without causing interference. This is the magic of digital technology. Where the two competing technologies differ is in the manner in which users share the common resource. TDMA does it by chopping up the channel into sequentially timed slices. Each user of the channel takes turns transmitting and receiving in a round-robin fashion. In reality, only one person is actually using the channel at any given moment, but he only uses it for short bursts. He then gives up the channel mome
