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America's First WCDMA Call

Posted by timothy on from the watson-i-need-broadband dept.

k-hell writes "Ericsson and AT&T Wireless recently completed the first WCDMA/UMTS call in a live network environment in the Americas, capable of data transfer speeds of up to 384 Kbps. AT&T Wireless and Ericsson currently pursuing the path to 3G capabilities in the U.S. market by deploying EDGE-ready GSM/GPRS systems. This path ensures an evolution to EDGE, then UMTS, a wideband radio technology that provides mobile users with data rates up to 2 Mbps." This is not yet a strong enough reason to move to Dallas, though.

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  1. Too bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Wi-Fi is going to kill it. When my non-techie friends start getting excited about a technology, and actually know something about it, then it can only mean bad things for 3G.

  2. Warning by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    In some towns they just let coloreds run wild!