NoLA promises 3.6Gbps download rates

In case you're not tired of seeing high-speed promises for 4G networks, along comes yet another from South Korea that could "enable users to download data at 3.6-gigabits per second while moving at 3-kilometers per hour or slower. Dubbed NoLA, which translates out to New Nomadic Local Area Wireless Access, the technology should allow folks to "download a disc full of data in under two seconds." Choi Mun-kee, head of the Daejeon-based institute, stated that NoLA data transmissions far surpass the "international 4G benchmark for slow-moving users," and Minister of Information and Communications Yoo Young-hwan threw in his two pennies by suggesting that it could one day "be applied to home networking and internet protocol TV or IPTV." Now, if only South Korea was closer to America...

[Via GizmoWatch, thanks Vikas]

[Kurian @ Oct 13th 2007 4:48AM]

Ya, when your the only one on the network.

[Paul @ Oct 13th 2007 4:48AM]

Here come the torrents!

[LondonConsultant @ Oct 13th 2007 6:18AM]

Now, if only South Korea was closer to UK...

[Drew @ Oct 13th 2007 7:05AM]

Is the technology highly vulnerable to hurricanes?

[BananaBoat @ Oct 13th 2007 7:05AM]

SALT WATER?! FROM MY EYES?! WHY?! WHYYYYYYYYYYYY!?!?!?

[Thomas Wrobel @ Oct 13th 2007 7:13AM]

Never happen in the US as long as people keep giving Verizon and co money.

[Samuel @ Oct 13th 2007 3:31PM]

Actually, it's not giving companies money that is the problem. The problem is the FCC maintains too tight a set of controls on how telecom is implemented. Instead of regulating and enforcing results, they regulate the technology, hoping to save money on the enforcement bit. This results naturally on squelched innovation.

[Thomas Wrobel @ Oct 13th 2007 4:31PM]

I gave up on any regulation stuff a long time ago, its the consumers that have to influence companys by voteing with their feet.
The problem, of course, is the average joe dosnt know just what these companies try (and do) get away with. I mean, come on, its one thing to have exclusive rights over part of the electromagnatic spectrum, its quite another to demand everyone uses only your hardware and software.
It would be like the Fox network demanding you only use X brand of TV.
The amount of lobbing Verizon does is disgusting, claiming its their right to be the soul provider of all devices that make use of a specific frequence of a natural force.
Then you have ISP's claiming abstractly that paying for bandwidth use isnt enough, you have to also pay for...well...if your making lots of money you just have to pay them. (while ignoreing the real issue which is they have simply oversold their capacity)

Heck, give it a few years, and the US govement will be allowing electricity providers to demand that shops pay more per kw/h, or their powers only used for things they approve of.
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[freeadlists @ Oct 13th 2007 7:18AM]

I live in South Korea and this is the first of heard of 3.6-gigabits per second rollout. I guess it will be topic for tomorrow.

[Will @ Oct 13th 2007 8:44AM]

I was born and raised 13 years in Pusan, South Korea. The LAST thing I want is for it to be any closer to the USA! The smell of Kimchi haunts my dreams...

[Logik @ Oct 13th 2007 5:11PM]

Kimchi/ee is delicious, well, baechu kimchi at least.

[Al @ Oct 13th 2007 9:11AM]

No offence, but I would be quite pleased if the whole internet had a constant speed of 100 ko/sec.

It's reliability we need to improve, not maximum dowload rates.

[Kevyn @ Oct 13th 2007 9:57AM]

Damn it! When I first saw the headline I thought that New Orleans was finally getting some high-speed service, but nope... not even the right country! ARRRRGH!

[Barry @ Oct 13th 2007 11:09AM]

When I first saw that NoLA was getting this, i was stoked! Why? Well, NOLA stands for New Orleans Louisiana.... which is where I live. But unfortunately the acronym meant something totally different. Ah well, just something to look forward to... the true, "World Wide" Web. :)

[Mark @ Oct 13th 2007 6:36PM]

Must be a pain if the bandwidth cap is 60 GB or 100 GB like the one here lol

[Frankie Teo @ Oct 13th 2007 10:39PM]

we don't need another 4G four letter abbreviated technology that needs frequency spectrum. Why can't companies just use UWB and be done with Gbits ? Duh! UWB backhaul for a 802.11n access point would be cool. Just make it low cost.

[Samuel @ Oct 13th 2007 3:29PM]

Unfortunately, UWB is highly disruptive of other wireless services. UWB at the power levels needed to implement any kind of "back haul" range would render everything inside the near-field of the transmitting antenna (from stereos, computers, to non-UWB cell phones) virtually inoperative unless you were sufficiently close to a non-UWB cell tower. There's a reason why UWB is used (in the civilian sector at least) at such low power levels.