The Forward CDMA channel is the cell-to-mobile direction of communication or the downlink path. It consists of four types of channels to transmit voice and control data to the mobile. The types of forward link channels are Pilot, Sync, Paging and Traffic channels .
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The CDMA channel is nominally 1.23 MHz wide . CDMA networks use a scheme called soft handoff, which minimizes signal breakup as a handset passes from one cell to another. The combination of digital and spread spectrum modes supports several times as many signals per unit of bandwidth as analog modes.
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