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To: Eric L who wrote (279)1/1/2005 4:53:25 PM
From: elmatador   of 356
 
Super 3G technology: coming to your phone?

January 01 2005 at 03:43PM

Tokyo - The world's 26 major cellphone operators and telecommunication equipment manufacturers have agreed to work on a global standard for a super fast mobile transmission technology, a newspaper report said on Friday.

The group included NTT DoCoMo and NEC of Japan, Britain's Vodafone Group, top US cellphone carrier Cingular Wireless, Alcatel of France and Siemens of Germany, said the Nihon Keizai Shimbun business daily.

Using the new technology - called Super 3G - the group planned to launch (by 2009) global services for transmitting large volumes of moving images by mobile phones at a speed 10 times faster than the current third-generation technology, the report said.

Super 3G can boost mobile transmission speeds to a range of 30 to 100 megabits per second to match existing land line fibre optic telecom technology, allowing movies, games or home videos to be played on handsets with a much higher resolution, it said.

The report said the cost of upgrading the mobile telecommunication network for Super 3G in Japan may top $975-millon.

Vodafone's Japan unit was unavailable for comment.
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