4G gets test rollout in Japan and China
News 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.
[November 26, 2003, 8:35]
4G gets test rollout in Japan and China
Talkback 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.
[November 26, 2003, 11:15]
Japan gets to work on 4G comms
News Communications Research Laboratory, a Tokyo-based institute, says it will invest $1.7m (£1.05m) in a new Singapore facility dedicated to developing vehicle communications systems and 4G, or fourth generation, mobile technology.
[May 6, 2003, 15:47]
4G gets test rollout in Japan and China
Talkback 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...
[December 14, 2003, 8:42]
4G gets test rollout in Japan and China
Talkback 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...
[November 26, 2003, 10:47]
4G gets test rollout in Japan and China
Talkback Awesome news! Making the most of this in the commercial/revenue side of the business is precisely where our new patented programs come in. We have the capability to convert to all protocols for wireless (PDAs, mobilephones, wireless laps, etc.with...
[November 26, 2003, 10:10]
4G gets test rollout in Japan and China
Talkback 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...
[March 7, 2006, 5:11]
Dongle power users to get 4G first
News If this is the case, it could lead to geographical 3G/4G divides — with countries such as the US and Japan, which use CDMA-based tech, more likely to be early LTE adopters than regions such as Europe that have GSM/UMTS networks.
[February 9, 2009, 8:37]
Intel puts more funding behind WiMax
News Chipmaker Intel's venture-capital arm has announced an investment in Japanese WiMax company UQ Communications, which intends to provide coverage to most of Japan by 2012. UQ's WiMax deployment in Japan is a spectacular example of technology...
[June 8, 2009, 16:37]
Waiting for the wireless Internet
News The hope is that 3G networks will create the kind of buzz for a handheld, wireless Internet in the United States that the breakthrough iMode phone has generated in Japan. The wireless cellular industry is abuzz about the potential of third...
[July 7, 2000, 13:54]
4G gets more serious
News Flarion is behind Flash-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, which is being tested by Vodafone in Japan as a faster way of sending data to mobile handsets. Japanese network operator NTT DoCoMo has reached a significant milestone in the...
[June 11, 2004, 17:55]
WiMax's head start over LTE may decide 4G race
News Garth Collier, managing director of Intel's WiMax division for Asia-Pacific and Japan, said he is "seeing for the first time a convergence in the cellular industry". WiMax could prove to be the winner in the 4G race against the long-term evolution...
[April 11, 2008, 8:13]
Sweden pushes ahead with 4G network
News ABI said Japan's NTT may also deliver LTE in 2009. The Swedish telecommunications operator TeliaSonera has signed contracts towards the launch of an 4G high-speed wireless network in 2010, saying it aims to be one of the first with an LTE network...
[January 16, 2009, 14:28]
Verizon expects 4G launch next year
News Several GSM operators around the world have also announced plans to use LTE, including NTT DoCoMo in Japan and TeliaSonera in Sweden and Norway, although mostly on 2.6 GHz. Verizon's CTO has provided details on the company's 4G wireless network...
[February 20, 2009, 9:42]
Great walls can't keep out the greater world
Leader TV is a case in point: in post-war Europe, the individual countries adopted a wide range of different and incompatible broadcast standards; America and Japan stuck with one — and the manufacturers working in the bigger market won.
[January 4, 2006, 11:40]
The mobile features that could succeed in 2009
News It has been done in countries such as Japan for a while, and 'western' devices may.soon include such technology. It was clear a year ago that the mobile industry was about to be shaken up by the rise of mobile Linux, which opened up the previously...
[December 24, 2008, 6:30]
Samsung claims to have cracked 4G
News NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile operator, is planning to launch a commercial 4G network in 2010 and has already piloted VSF-OFCDM and VSF-CDMA technologies. Samsung is claiming to have cracked 4G, while most of the mobile industry couldn't tell...
[September 1, 2006, 10:10]
