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FAST PHONES Last week Verizon became the first U.S. company to deploy the fancy, fast new form of wireless Internet access known to techies as "3G," for "third generation." The $30-a-month service (Verizon calls it the Express Network) will send data to PCs with special wireless cards, and even to some cell phones, more than twice as fast as an ordinary 56K modem...
...Worst Gamble Europe's big telecom operators are ultimately expected to lay out at least $230 billion upgrading their wireless networks for the latest 3G - or third generation - technology. Trouble is, they don't have that kind of cash on hand, so France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom and others have piled up billions in debt in the teeth of a recession. And, oh yes, nobody's sure when 3G, which is supposed to allow true Internet access via your handset, is really going to work...
...mobile Internet service that set nearly 30 million pairs of Japanese thumbs tap-tap-tapping on hand-held keypads. Tachikawa, 62, has set up partnerships with Europeans and recently bought a 16% stake in AT&T Wireless. Both moves should serve DoCoMo well in its bid to promote "3g," the ultra-speedy, new-generation service that seeks to make cell phones indispensable multimedia tools...
...where cell-phone standards vary wildly--and seem to change overnight. Vendors such as Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola and network suppliers such as AT&T and Cingular must be flexible enough to work in developing countries, including China, as well as advanced markets such as Europe, where third-generation (3G) systems will soon combine high-speed voice and data. With telecom engineers in short supply and companies leery of adding full-time staff for short-term projects, contract workers have filled...
...cellular networks but on optimizing them--making them work better--a strategy that has brought in $18 million since his U.S. office opened 21 months ago. And Franklin sunnily predicts that 24,000 telecom engineers will be needed worldwide if companies are to make use of the commercial 3G licenses being issued in the next few years...