IP: Wireless and 20Mbit/Sec in 2006

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>From: Donald Steinbrecher <DSteinbrecher@mintprimary.com>
>To: "Rtab (E-mail)" <rtab@metricom.com>
>Subject: Wireless and 20Mbit/Sec in 2006
>Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 17:01:03 -0500
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>Some players still see an opportunity for high-speed wireless:
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>Technology News
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>03/17 23:10
>DoCoMo Aims to Start 4G Cellular Service in 2006, Yomiuri Says
>By Yumiko Okamura
>Tokyo, March 18 (Bloomberg) -- NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan's largest cellular
>phone company, plans to launch fourth-generation cellular phone services as
>early as 2006, aiming to make the system the world standard, the Yomiuri
>newspaper said, citing unnamed industry sources.
>The 4G cellular phones will let users watch high-resolution movies and
>television programs, the paper said, adding that their maximum data
>transmission speed of more than 20 megabits per second will be 2,000 times
>faster than existing mobile phones and 10 times faster than the high-speed
>mobile phone services, or the so-called third-generation phone service, that
>DoCoMo plans to introduce in May.
>
>
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