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Sprint PCS Launches 3G Network

Posted by michael on from the first-post dept.

pdp1144 writes "Sprint PCS launched the first nationwide 3G wireless network today. Code named Vision it will allow wireless data speeds starting at an average of 50 to 70 kbps." The question is, how much? If the data plan is such that you can use up a month's allotment in five minutes of downloading... Simson Garfinkel had a good column on this recently.

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  1. here we go by Frothy+Walrus · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    now even more people will spend half their freakin' days on the phone. just what America needs.

    i say let Japan keep their toys. look at their culture in the cities; there's so much sensory saturation, it's creepy.

    1. Re:here we go by garcia · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      I agree. The two African-Americans walking in the mall holding hands, both on cell phones. I wonder if they were talking to e/o.

      I don't own a cell phone, hopefully never will. I like the fact that I cannot be reached when I am not at home.

      I went on vaction this summer w/my girlfriend and my parents. My father got a call on his cell phone probably every 45 mins. That's not vacation. That's fucking annoying.

      All you cell phone lovers out there. Get over it. It aggrivates the rest of us when we are eating, sleeping, driving, walking, talking, vacationing.

      That's my rant for today, thank you.

  2. Re:FIRST POST by ceejayoz · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Don't you just love a news site where a PMSing editor can delay a story by a week? :-p