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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. Holy retard, Batman by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    AT&T Wireless and Ericsson currently pursuing the path to 3G capabilities in the U.S. market by deploying EDGE-ready GSM/GPRS systems.

    Remember when your teacher told you grammar wasn't that important as long as you could get your point across? THEY LIED.

  2. WTF? by murphj · · Score: 5, Funny

    That writeup is KOC*. It has a LOA** . WIKWTHTM***!

    * Kind Of Confusing
    ** Lot of Acronyms
    *** Wish I knew what the hell they mean

    --
    SONY. Because caucasians are just too damn tall.
    1. Re:WTF? by stinky+wizzleteats · · Score: 5, Funny

      So, EDGE fully expands to:

      Enhanced Data for Global System for Mobile Communications Evolution

      Jesus. Let's just start making up words for stuff like this. I hereby proclaim this technology to be called "durf".

  3. Re:The first time I see... by malarkey · · Score: 4, Funny
    It's probobly more likly that he will kill you. Only in those las few seconds before he plows into you will you be close enough to see what had his attention.


    And where his other hand was.