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Siemens Develops 1 gbit/sec Wireless Link

Posted by timothy on from the beam-forth-your-data dept.

jonknee writes "Siemens has developed mobile wireless technology with transfer rates as high as 1 gigbit per second. This blows the doors off of '3G' technology, or EV-DO (the high-speed data technology used by Verizon Wireless and soon by Sprint PCS). Not all the specs are out yet (more info is expected early next year), but it uses three transmitting and four receiving antennas. With any luck the phone in your pocket will have a gigabit link by the year 2015."

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  1. So, in 2015, ... by kclittle · · Score: 5, Funny
    my daughter can call and ask for money even faster that she can today? With full-screen video and 5.1 surround sound? Oh, thanks bunches...

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  2. Technology advancement by rasteri · · Score: 4, Insightful

    With any luck the phone in your pocket will have a gigabit link by the year 2015.

    By which time it won't seem that amazing at all.

    1. Re:Technology advancement by Gopal.V · · Score: 4, Insightful
      >By which time it won't seem that amazing at all.

      To us , it'll still be amazing because we'll be past the 35-hump since when each invention is against the laws of nature .

      Below 16 , all inventions are taken for granted. After 16 to 35, every invention is the next big thing and by the time you're over 35 , it'll be a violation of your fundamental understanding of science.

      So kids born in 2000 see supersonic air travel as an ordinary means of travel , while my father feels there's something impossible about faster than sound travel (someday I'll say the same about Faster than light , hopefully) .

      People don't change - they are just replaced.

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  3. very nice but... by __aahlyu4518 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "With any luck the phone in your pocket will have a gigabit link by the year 2015."

    Having a phone in your pocket may be obsolete in 2015 ;-)

  4. Re:for what by Oxygen99 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Rapid on demand location based services springs to mind, such as detailed maps and directions. As does accessing music files remotely from your own PC. That'd be nice. Maybe more expansive travel information such as realtime traffic or flight data. I'm sure these would become more and more useful given a large hike in bandwidth.

    As somone more intelligent than myself said, "if you build it, they will come.".

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  5. Re:Yeah Right by maxwell+demon · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Secondly, you can't even get 54Mbps without paying thousands of dollars per month WITH WIRES.

    How much do 100GB disk space cost today? How much did they cost 10 years ago?
    How much would you have payed 10 years ago for the data rate of a current standard DSL connection?
    How much would you have payed 10 years ago for the computing power of todays entry level PCs?
    So, are you still sure that the pricing will not be about right for the consumer market in the year 2015?
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  6. When do cellular and WLAN merge? by cale · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This article is interesting in the standard kind of wow, high bandwidth wireless kind of way. However, as wireless LAN technologies become more long distance (Wi-Max) and cellular technologies become more high bandwidth (this article), when will the two converge into a united space?
    I know there is a difference in the licensing of the spectrum, but disregarding governmental interferences, prevents wireless LAN and cellular from essentially becoming the same type of standard?