CDMA 850 is CDMA technology operating in the Cellular (850 MHz) frequency band. Before the existence of GSM 850, the Cellular band was often referred to as the "800 MHz" band. "850 MHz" implies a ...
The AWS frequency band has two parts, one near 1700 MHz and another near 2100 MHz. To avoid confusion with Europe's (quite different) "2100" band, Phone Scoop refers to AWS simply by the 1700 part, ...