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To: foundation who wrote (31872)	1/30/2003 8:02:52 AM
From: foundation	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197253

Seeing is believing The Guardian (London) January 30, 2003 You've seen the posters, you've watched the football-related TV advert, you've probably received the whizzy CD-rom if you've bought a glossy magazine over the past month but only we - and a few hundred specially chosen friends and family - have seen the service. Yes 3, the UK's newest mobile phone company, has let members of the press get their grubby little mitts on the first batch of 3G handsets, if only for half an hour. And the verdict? It looks nothing like the adverts. The promise of 3G technology - essentially the broadband of the airwaves - was good quality video. That's why 3 went out and bought the rights to show Premiership highlights. The picture quality shown yesterday looked more like the internet of three years ago, than the technology of the future. What makes the poor quality even more surprising is that Hutchison has dumped the original plan to allow callers to watch video in real time in favour of downloading video clips which can be stored on the handset and watched at leisure. If video is so poor what is 3G for? Well you can plug a laptop into it and access emails and the internet super fast. But soon anyone with a laptop will be able to access broadband internet anywhere, without wires, so long as they are near one of BT's new hotspots in UK cities. So why bother? Let's not be too downbeat: there are some fantastic features of 3's service - which will go live within weeks - such as being able to communicate with another 3 user using video. But 3 is still searching for a real reason for customers to buy into the dream. ========== Previewing wCDMA prowess and capabilities - in ideal conditions on an empty network - with zero capacity burden? LOL! wCDMA never fails to exceed my expectations for under performance.