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Cingular To Offer Mobile High-Speed Internet

Posted by timothy on from the a-held-breath-never-boils dept.

ArbiterOne writes "ZDNet has the story: Cingular is moving ahead with its plans to offer wireless high-speed Internet access to consumers. Lucent Technologies has agreed to provide the technology, and Cingular has agreed to buy out AT&T Wireless, and become the number-one cell carrier in the US."

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  1. Re:small by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I disagree.
    Mobile internet still has its uses.
    GPRS is well suited to rss feeds in paticular. I have a small phone screen, 95*60 px I think and I always read the bbc news while I'm on the bus, or driving or just don't have a net connection handy.

    Though for anything else, it does pretty much suck, agreed.

    However a large number of, PDA type devices with larger screens are appearing, so there is hope for mobile browsing. Now if only web developers would embrace xml,rss and css like they're 'sposed too!! :E

    P.S. Is it possible to get slashdot on a mobile(wap) phone. Maybe an rss reader for phones?

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    May the Maths Be with you!
  2. Speed comparison simulator for CDMA2000 EV-DO, CDM by sanspeak · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Which Mobile Internet technology is the best ?

    May be you can find it, by playing this simulation game here at Lucent.com. The simulator here shows the differences in bandwidth and roundtrip delays for various mobile technologies. The simulator compares CDMA2000 EV-DO, CDMA2000 1X, GPRS and EDGE. A UMTS, GPRS, GSM-Data and Modem version. There are two version of the simulator one with EV-DO & one with UMTS.