Japan and China plan joint experiments on a new generation Internet-capable mobile phone for high-speed data transmissions that will work in both countries at far higher speeds than current 3G phones.
Japanese officials said the experiments would being in December and take three years, the Kyodo news service reported. The project would use the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) and achieve speeds of up to 100Mb per second, comparable to fibre-optic cables and much faster than the current 3G mobile phone maximum of 2.4Mb per second.
The Japan-China project will test the mobile phone for projects such as data content creation about Chinese cities, a Chinese business database and translating technology for Japanese and Chinese languages.
The new bandwidth potentially promises video conferencing, high-resolution movie transmission and high-speed Internet access on mobile phones.
Several universities and companies will take part in the initial project stages, including Kyoto University, Beijing University and Fujitsu, the officials said. Japan's NTT DoCoMo is opening a Beijing office, The Japan Times, a Japanese daily reported, in a possible attempt to explore the 4G potential of China.
Japan leads the world in IPv6-related technology, and hopes to make it a global standard.
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Awesome news!
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What about UK?
Here in UK the "major" mobiles phones have not even launched the 3G phones, and correct me if I am wrong, has anyone heard of a 4G licence? The 3G licence was the biggest robbery ever from government, as they took the incredible amount of 30 Billion(yes with a B) from phone companies, and of course they are charging more...As an example, text messages are charged up to higher 1500% (yes one thousand five hundred) than their real price.
We wonder what they will charge for a 100mb speed...And we wonder too if this time really mobile companies will put any money into it....
By charging so high, gov. has jeopardozed the whole future of mobile telphony, as getting back 30 billions does not happen overnight.
Japan are always ahead technologically, I am really interested in the connected home – something Singapore I believe are taking seriously and that will not happen for a while and it will take a 4G network to make best use of a connected home. Its true that only one company in the UK is offering 3G services but all the other mobile companies plan to follow soon. I doubt the same mistakes will be made a second time around by mobile companies, I am not sure how they will sell 3G.
Look at GPRS and Vodafone Live its complete tripe, you can’t really do anything. It will take something like an internet connected home with washing machines, hoovers and CCTV security that can be controlled by a mobile to lift 4G off the ground in this country.
This 4G service does look promising but its not really doing anything more than what 3G handsets do already apart from doing it quicker. Unless it can do something absolutely spectacular that know other can do then i can't see it being a major hit as all of the UK networks charge the earth.
Excuse me for being dumb but when someone first told me about 4G they told me that instead of just doing video conferencing, when a call was received as long as both sender and receiver had 4G then a holographic image would be projected rather than picture on screen. is this true? or am i having my legged pulled. if it is true, it may well be worth waiting for.
It's the "doing it quicker" bit which sets 4G mobile apart from 3G which has failed to live up to expectations of 2Mb/s.
I don't think it will be the lack of additional utility in 4G that scuppers it, rather the cost of building new networks (especially after the 3G robbery), the lack of globally harmonised spectrum, and delays in certification (not to mention concerns about power consumption).
Don't expect a 4G phone (or licence!) to appear in UK before 2008 at the very earliest.