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Experimental 4G Phone Service Faster Than Cable
JymBrittain writes "NewScientist reports that Japanese researchers have achieved blistering rates of transmission for cell phones that allowed for viewing of 32 high definition video streams, while traveling in an automobile at 20 kilometers per hour. From the article: "Officials from NTT DoCoMo say the phones could receive data at 100 megabits per second on the move and at up to a gigabit per second while static. At this rate, an entire DVD could be downloaded within a minute." These transmission rates were achieved using new experimental methods of multiplexing."
32 simultaneous porn streams?! Oh my! I don't need to be going at 20mph for that..
Death by snoo-snoo!
This won't help out when surfing Slashdotted sites...
Paleotechnologist and connoisseur of pretty shiny things.
20 kilometers per hour!
OMG, that's incredible.
At this rate the technology will never reach the USA. Thanks for pointing that out right away jerks.
How does a 7-person democracy cut a pie? Into 4 pieces.
If I left the phone in my pocket while torrenting an ISO to my Powerbook with an 802.11g link, would I be rendered sterile?
Everyone's favourite unit..+ per+hour+in+furlongs+per+fortnight&meta=
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=20+kilometers
20 kilometers per hour = 33 404.9153 furlongs per fortnight
Death by snoo-snoo!
Hollywood surrenders. Film at 11.
the furlongs per fortnight
Here you are: 12 mph equals to 32 256 furlongs per fortnight.
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...a render farm made up of cellphones.
Neither, there's no f'ing cell receiption between Amarillo and Dallas. Thought that was a math problem huh?!
backwater.. the USA. where you too can get a mere 3 mbit/s monodirectional while people in scandanavia and japan get 20 megabits minimum, and will soon have gigabit service to their phones. I would like to personally thank the FCC for fostering the competition necessary to get us here.
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Oh those Japanese! This is yet another innovation from the Japanese. Shall we ever catch up?
How on earth would you pick it up?
On behalf of much of Slashdot, let me say this:
You bastard.
Can I come live with you?
Too easy. There are 99.4 Furlongs in a kilometer and 336 hours in a fortnight. So 20KM/h is equal to 667,968 Furlongs a fortnight
/. crowd is that the speed of light is 299,792,458 meters per second so we could express 20KM/h as 0.000000000000085313386 C. If we take 100 megabits per second over this distance we can finally, empirically, and for the very first time, get the width of a bit.
Because there are 40 rods in a furlong you could also say this is equal to 53,437,440 rods per month.
More relevent for the
1.85 Zeptometers.
Because we know the constant rods to the hogshead is 40 (thanks Abe) we can work out that it would take 4.93 Litres of petrol to carry 100mbits of data. Based on the current price of petrol in Australia this would cost exactly AUD$6.00
Now if we use Einstein as a basis we get the weight of a bit as being
1.81 Nanograms!
So there we have it, this valuable Japanese research has proven the mass, speed, size and cost of a bit.
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