Techs & Trends
Super 3G?!?!?!
The world's 26 major mobile phone operators and telecommunication equipment makers have agreed to work on a global standard for a super fast mobile transmission technology, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun business daily reported, without quoting sources.
The group includes NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) and NEC (Nasdaq: NIPNY) of Japan, Britain's Vodafone Group PLC, U.S. cell phone carrier Cingular , Alcatel of France and Siemens (NYSE: SI) of Germany, the newspaper said.
Using the new technology called Super 3G , the group plans 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 3G (third-genera...
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