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Good article called "Rush Is On in Europe for Wireless Data Services"
" ... part of a very serious rush across Europe into wireless data services that is keeping the Continent, along with Japan, well ahead of the slower-moving United States."
nytimes.com
There are several references to (sorry to say) GSM and the evolution to 3G through GPRS, and EDGE. Article comments:
"Other big players, including Sprint and Bell Atlantic, are pushing a rival approach called wideband CDMA, or code division multiple access. The conflicting standards have slowed things down considerably, said Mark Lowenstein, an analyst at the Yankee Group, a research firm in Boston."
and:
"The United States also faces a more difficult chore in getting from here to there. The American carriers do not have a middle-term technology comparable to GPRS in Europe, and the third-generation services are not expected to reach the market for a few years."
Article is from NY Times which requires, I think, (free) registration. Another good article in todays NY Times called "Forced to Compete in Wireless Technology, Japan Becomes a Global Power" references:
"The latest mobile phone to draw oohs and aahs here has a tiny camera that sends a shaky TV-style color image to a small screen on the other party's telephone -- assuming that it too is a video phone. That cellular video phone will be introduced by the Kyocera Corp. this month, for about $335, and it is as tiny as any other mobile phone, easily fitting into a shirt pocket."
nytimes.com
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