Word: 4g
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...airplane flying at 100 knots and cars moving at 100 m.p.h. The geeks know this, and that's why they are working on the extension of the Wi-Max standard to incorporate mobility. In any case, our company has been promoting this technology as the basis for future 4G systems, and I believe this is a story that you may want to follow over the next couple of years. SAYED-AMR EL-HAMAMSY PRESIDENT AND COO WI-LAN INC. Calgary, Canada
...danger is that while the lab geeks are perfecting the handsets consumers will find other technologies that suit them just fine, allowing them to put off taking the plunge on 3G until a 4G comes along. John Moroney of Ovum, a consultancy specializing in telecoms, expects it could take five years before 3G becomes a serious consumer business. "There's already an existing good alternative: second generation voice plus sms text messaging," Moroney observes. Then there's so-called 2.5G, which transmits data in a similar fashion to UMTS, but with more limited bandwidth. The innovative Japanese operator...