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19 megabits on 3G
haligan writes "Bell Labs research arm announced the development of two prototype chips that would allow mobile devices to receive more than 19 megabits of data per second on 3G networks." Power consumption is low enough for cel phone type applications.
For the area in which I have decided to make my home, this won't matter for a while. It would be nice to have, however, if there were a plan with a HUGE pool of minutes (or unlimited, even if after a certian time of day). If the technology really works, I won't half to wait for CenturyTel to get off their collective asses and give the town in which I live the DSL that so many of us have expressed an interest in.
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It would be nice to have this in a laptop. I was sitting in the Minneapolis airport for a few hours this morning, and I was noticing all the laptops that are in an airport. Now Minneapolis has 802.11b access through most of the terminals, but the cost is 10 dollars for a day. Now if I could pay for 3G access on my monthly phone bill, and be able to use it on my laptop at no extra charge from anywhere in the country.
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So does this mean we might see phones with 10BaseT RJ45 jacks in them?
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With all this development of 3G networks for phones, when might we see a true wireless internet over this network instead of the breadth of DSL and Cable companies? Surely there cannot be that much of a technology gap between making the 3G network accesible to wireless services, it would be a great last-mile solution in areas that have cellular coverage, but are outside of the range of an operations center.
Hey with a phone that has that good data transfer it probably can transfer some high quality realtime audio over the airwaves. So no say I want bootleg a concert (lets say one thats not friendly to bootlegging). They'll check for recording devices but won't think twice about a cell phone. BWAH HAHA thats where you got them.. All you do is have your phone start downloading the audio to your computer's hard drive and voila! sneaky bootlegging.. thats quality recording. Though I guess this might be limited by the quality of the mic on your phone but hey I just come up with these crazy ideas. If you're hardcore enough and a hardware hacker I'm sure you could fix a crappy mic problem pretty easy :)
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A corrolary of Shannon's theorem on channel capacity is that the greater the capacity of the channel, given an amount of noise, the greater power is necessary for it to maintain a given rate of information transmission. In other words, the faster you want to pump the data, the more power needed to transmit.
Therefore, while these chips may need little power to receive, what about transmissions? Would possibly thousands of 19 mbit/s transmissions floating around in the GHz band possibly have an increased detrimental effect on living things? Sure it's small, but would it be a factor at all?
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Why would anyone need 19megabits to a cell phone? In Slovakia cell phone users can watch live TV streams on their phones using "only" GPRS which is .1 megabit which is the first service of this kind in the world. Check out the URL to a http://media.a3boot.com/ta3/16102002/mobilvizia.as f . I dont see the need for 19 megabits. This cellphone would require an insane amount of storage to make this even remotely useful.
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How hard/costly/innefficient would it be to build a LAN out of this? If it is higher than 802.11b, wouldnt it be a better network? I am a kid, so just tell me if this was a stupid idea.
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Back to digging up roads then...
Who uses 2.3mb/sec while browsing the internet?
Lets do the math.
320x240 (which is way better resolution than most full color screens) at 24 bit (RGB) is 230400 bytes at 10 f/s uncompressed video thats about 2.3mb/s. If you want to watch full color video at 320x480 on your phone for 10 minuites, then you deserve to pay $14
The technology looks like: Take a data stream, split it into 4 streams, transmit them in separate channels, detect and re-assemble them in the same order. Isnt this something we already use in our download accelerator products? If not, how is this different?
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