NTT DoCoMo's 4G Tests Hit 300Mbps

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NTT DoCoMo's 4G Tests Hit 300Mbps

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 1, 2004 @06:55AM from the and-i-still-can't-get-cable dept.

haunebu writes "'Your brand-spankin'-new 3G phone is nearing obsolesence: NTT DoCoMo reveals the results from a new 4G test system.' says TheFeature. While in a car moving at 30kph, DoCoMo engineers managed a peak throughput of 300Mbps and a sustained transfer rate of 135Mbps with their new variable spreading factor orthogonal frequency code division multiplexing (WSF-OFCDM) downstream technology. Who comes up with these names, and how does Japan manage to stay lightyears ahead of everyone else in wireless?"

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Your brand-spankin'-new 3G phone by Matey-O · 2004-06-01 06:56 · Score: 5, Funny

'Your brand-spankin'-new 3G phone is nearing obsolesence:'

Not in America it ain't.

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1. Re:Your brand-spankin'-new 3G phone by fshalor · 2004-06-01 07:56 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Considering some new cars have a bluetooth integration with the car audio system and cell phones. You sit in yo car, drive arround, say "call billy bob" and the thing rings, through the cell phone in your pocket.
  
  Now I can bring my laptop, set it in the back seat, and say, "email billy bob file Process-Flow-Diagram-02.pdf " and it will work.
  
  Cool.
  
  But aren't we suppsoed to be driving the car. At least for a few more years? :)
  
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Just what I need... by the_rajah · 2004-06-01 06:57 · Score: 5, Funny

A cell phone that's equivalent to 87.66234 T-1 lines..

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their secret is... by Digitus1337 · 2004-06-01 06:58 · Score: 5, Funny

...that it's a very small island, just put big transmitters on mountantops and you're good to go
1. Re:their secret is... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-01 07:10 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Yeah, but when a giant lizard (who shall remain nameless) tears down those transmitters every couple of years and they have to be put back up, thats when you see how resourceful the Japanese truely are.
2. Re:their secret is... by jonbrewer · 2004-06-01 10:26 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Most of my friends in Tokyo who are in their 20's and still not married still live with their parents
  
  For God's Sake! Would somebody please think of the parents!
The obvious explanation... by kpansky · 2004-06-01 06:58 · Score: 2, Funny

Who comes up with these names, and how does Japan manage to stay lightyears ahead of everyone else in wireless?

The obvious explanation for both of these seemingly puzzling questions is of course Pocky.

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Ahem! by orthogonal · 2004-06-01 06:59 · Score: 4, Funny

their new variable spreading factor orthogonal frequency code division multiplexing (WSF-OFCDM) downstream technology

This is a lie!

I had nothing to do with this!

(And I don't do variable spreading of my factor. And certainly not in a car going 35 mph.)

(Ok, now that you've laughed at me, "Vote" in my unofficial presidential poll.)

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Because Cell phones weren't distracting enough by VanWEric · 2004-06-01 07:00 · Score: 5, Funny

Now we can drive with one knee, eat with one hand and watch /.-The Movie at 90mph.

There is a race in technology : Things That Distract Drivers vs Things That Replace Drivers (TTDDvTTRD). If automatic nav doesn't catch up, we will all be victims of our own entertainment.

Cheers!

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Bandwidth by aardvarkjoe · 2004-06-01 07:00 · Score: 3, Funny

That's all very nice, but the real question is: what's the bandiwdth of a station wagon full of telephones barrelling down the highway?

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So let's see... by moehoward · 2004-06-01 07:01 · Score: 5, Funny

That means that they got....let's see....carry the one...

135Mb of data through before the battery ran out.

Pretty good.

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WSF-OFCDM? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-01 07:01 · Score: 2, Funny

You sure it's not WTF-OFCDM?
How do they do it? by pegr · 2004-06-01 07:03 · Score: 2, Funny

how does Japan manage to stay lightyears ahead of everyone else in wireless?

Can't tell you how, but why is obvious... You can't run cable through paper walls...
Re:Day in the life of a Liberal [Otto] by hoggoth · 2004-06-01 07:07 · Score: 1, Funny

> ... [all kinds of anal-fisting-gaping-hole-miscellaneous-bodily-flui d-drinking deleted] ...

I think this is a description of a painting by Hieronymus Bosch...

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Re:Eat that DSL and Cable by tux_deamon · 2004-06-01 07:07 · Score: 3, Funny

Yeah, 135 Mbps would prove great for full motion streaming video, but how good will all that porn look on a 1" LCD?
Re:WSF-OFCDM? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-01 07:07 · Score: 2, Funny

valiable spleading factol olthogonal flequency...
Great. by Snarph · 2004-06-01 07:08 · Score: 2, Funny

One more feature that will be over-sold and over-priced when it reaches the States.

I'll be happy if I can just get a working basic connection in the Bay Area (thanks so much, AT&T).
Re:Names by Tenebrious1 · 2004-06-01 07:08 · Score: 2, Funny

...variable spreading factor ... (WSF-...

Is it a typo, or maybe it's supposed to be "Wearable spreading factor"? The Japanese phones are pretty small, it's possible they've sewn it into a shirt collar or something?

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Re:Names by frenetic3 · 2004-06-01 07:12 · Score: 2, Funny

Because it was created by a wery talented group of Russian mad scientists.

-fren

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Lightyears ahead of everyone... by raistphrk · 2004-06-01 07:14 · Score: 3, Funny

how does Japan manage to stay lightyears ahead of everyone else in wireless?

By protecting their secrets with giant anime robots.

Either that, or they found some ancient, advanced, lost wireless technology and got a patent on it.
Two more words by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-01 07:15 · Score: 1, Funny

Tentacle porn
Re:WSF-OFCDM? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-01 08:02 · Score: 1, Funny

Not to be outdone, China announces its developing the competing WTF-OMGLOL!!1!one1!KTHXBYE network technology.
Re:How Japan is "lightyears" ahead of us... by mcpkaaos · 2004-06-01 10:48 · Score: 2, Funny

There's that...

And then there's the fact that we are still so busy over here trying to monetize email and instant messaging that the wireless train left the station without us. ;\

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Re:Names by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-01 13:43 · Score: 1, Funny

the name describes exactly how the technology works

Sure. And when Geordi reroutes warp power through the main EPS conduits so that the deflector can modulate the verteron pulse, I know exactly what he's doing, too -- even though the technology doesn't exist.

(Yet. In this timeline. Unless maybe that funny-looking Nazi... Hey!)