While most other countries have sorted out the issue of which cell phone standard to adopt, North Americas are still wrestling with it. However, Finland-based Nokia may have just made the decision that much easier.

The mobile phone giant announced on Friday that it will end its support for Code Division Multiplex Access (CDMA) technology, which is still in use by carriers such as Verizon in the States and Bell Mobility and Telus Mobility up here in Canada. This despite the fact that the competing technology, GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications... the C is silent, apparently), originally spawned by European carriers and hardware makers, now accounts for more than 70% of the world’s cellular market.

Too, emerging mobile phone mega-populaces such as China and India are heavily skewed toward the GSM standard, which makes you wonder how much longer the CDMA2000 and other CDMA-based systems can hope to hold the balance of power.

Interestingly, in Canada, Rogers/Fido and its resellers have sided with the rest of the world by supporting GSM.