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2.4 Megabit Cellular Modem

Posted by timothy on from the dream-the-impossible-dream dept.

lew writes: "Ars has a review of a cellular modem that provides 2.4 megabits / second downsteam and 153 kilobits / second upsteam... and it works! Check it out" How much for unmetered service on such a system? :)

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  1. Re:that's PER CELL by grnbrg · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Yeah, but think about what most of those users are going to be doing with the connection: looking at web pages, reading email, and instant messaging people.


    The cable companies brought out DSL and didn't worry too much about that fact that heavy use could saturate the local segment of the network, because very few people would ever be downloading multi-megabyte files, they'd just be looking at web pages, reading email and instant messaging people....

    Then Napster happened.

    It's just a matter of time before someone figures out a high-bandwidth app that Joe Public wants on his phone.

    Want an example? Wouldn't it be cool if Nokia (or someone else) put one of these modems, a small colour LCD, camera, and video conferencing software into a cheap phone? Suddenly everyone is sending/recieving high-bandwith multi-media streams, 'cause everyone just *has* to have a videophone.

    Demand will always grow to exeed limitations, usually in ways that could not be predicted when the limitations were imposed.


    grnbrg