Cingular Wireless and Lucent Technologies announced that they “have successfully completed the first HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) data calls on the third-generation (3G) UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) trial network deployed by the two companies in the Atlanta market. In recent tests the HSDPA-enhanced network delivered sustained over-the-air data rates of more than three megabits per second (Mbps), and supported a wide variety of high-bandwidth multimedia services including high-quality streaming video, as well as fast downloads of high-resolution images and other large files.” The offering (with a theoretical maximum speed of over 14Mbps) is expected to be available in major markets in 2006. Awesome!
3G will never work the way the marketing guys have everyone believing; this physics just don’t work. Below is a link to one biased vendors explaination of the problem. Sure they may be trying to sell Wi-Fi as the solution, but the math used to justify it is pretty clear.
http://www.tropos.com/pdf/price-performance.pdf
Matt, even if it is not as fast as they’d like us to believe, I’ll take any better throughout I can get. 🙂
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