WiDEN(WIRELESS Integrated Digital Enhanced Network)
Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN) is a mobile telecommunications technology, developed by Motorola, which provides its users the benefits of a trunked radio and a cellular telephone. iDEN places more users in a given spectral space, compared to analog cellular and two-way radio systems, by using speech compression and time division multiple access (TDMA).WiDEN upgrades this platform. WiDEN was originally expexted to be released from Nextel Communications . But its merger with Sprint led to favouring sprint's CDMA. The first WiDEN-compatible device to be released was the Motorola iM240 PC card card which allow data speeds up to 60 kbit/s. Wideband iDEN “ A software upgrade developed by Motorola for its iDEN enhanced specialized
mobile radio (or ESMR) wireless telephony protocol. WiDEN allows compatible subscriber units to
communicate across four 25 kHz channels combined, for up to 100 kbit/s of bandwidth. The protocol is
generally considered a 2.5G wireless cellular technology.
Motorola i850 and i760 are the first WiDEN-compatible telephones. release of the Motorola i870 in Oct 2005 was the commercial launch of WiDEN. WiDEN was available in most places on Nextel's National Network.