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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

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    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".