4G development group comes together
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Jul 1st 2006 9:53PM
posted Jul 1st 2006 9:53PM
While much of the world awaits 3G to grace their airwaves, a coalition of companies in the wireless industry are putting together a nonprofit organization in the UK this month to promote the development of 4G. The "Next Generation Mobile Networks" group, consisting of founding members KPN Mobile, Orange, Sprint Nextel, Vodafone, and T-Mobile plus add-ons China Mobile and NTT DoCoMo, is looking to 2010 for the commercial deployment of 4G devices -- that's less than four years away, folks. We're somewhat skeptical 4G is going to come together for any substantial population in that amount of time, but just in case, we're going start compiling our list of things to do with 2.5Gbps of WWAN bandwidth now.[Via EE Times]
man- now I'm gonna be waiting
CAN"T WAIT !!!!!!!!!
If the US just skipped 3G alltogether and went straight to 4G I'd be plenty satisfied. We're already too far behind to play catch up.
Sounds pretty good if you are like hacking stuff on your mobile phone...who needs a network that fast??...yet
And 4G is...?
"...who needs a network that fast??"
Hmm, I think Netflix would love if everyone had 2.5Gbs to downloadstream some DVD and HD-DVDs...
This is great news as long as it's a GLOBAL standard, and, like the actual Internet, is OPEN, allowing creatives and entrepreneurs to build VoIP, P2P and other services ontop of the network. While many falsely believe that WiFi based technologies would or will bring about wireless utopia, we all know that the only way forward are longer range technologies with slower uplink speeds (such as 4G) that can be complimented by WiFi/WiMax. After all, you are more likely to want to upload something from a static location, such as your desk or home. Long live the 4G/WiFi handover chip. Texas? Broadcom? Intel? Do your thang!
That's a bit far-fetched. Most countries don't even offer 3G yet, and companies such as Orange and Vodafone are already dreaming about the fourth generation mobile platform? Keep dreaming...
wat i dont get is why every1 is complaining??? this is great news for serveral reasons
it gives the consumer more choices.....why spend $60 a month for cable/DSL @ home when for the same price i can get the same speeds wirelessly from any where
it would force cable/DSL operators to either drop prices significantly or raise speeds significantly or probably BOTH
with a unified standard being worked on early you dont have standards competing (GSM/CDMA ..UMTS(HSDPA)/EVDO-rx)that means the prices of the equipment should be lower since everybody is manufactoring the same equipment(just probably different frequnecies but if sum how that could b unified as well that would be even more amazing)
and with the bandwith afford by 4G your cell phone service provider could also offer your wireless IPtv and simular functions that Verizion wireline and SBC are trying to get into
more competion
more choices
consumers FTW!!
ps dont make comments on spelling and grammer its sad to see ppl ignore the big picture of a message because they dont like someones writing style
I mean really, why make a pre-emptive strike about grammar complaints? Surely anyone can see that typing like a teenager is fine these days ;-)
hey im 21 still in college and i am on my SK 95% of the time i hate to transition from my quick typing english to my more proper english....hey im just being me lol
I envy your sk working properly. I'm in the uk, and mine doesn't have a catalogue!
OK. How many of you people work for cellphone companies and are now trying to create this artificial sense of demand amongst our youth ? Don't everyone raise their hands now.
I'm still waiting for Sprint's 3G Power Vision.
AM I the only one that noticed that Sprint-Nextel is the only CDMA company listed in the list? Is this a sign of things to come for the company? Cingular will probably also join after the conversion to AT&T Wireless is completed.
4G will arrive in the mainstream in 2010. The rule of G’s is that each wireless cellular generation principally runs 10 years. Our era of 3G is from 2000 - 2010.