4G development group comes together
by Chris Ziegler 
posted Jul 1st 2006 at 9:53PM
While much of the world awaits 3G to grace their airwaves, a coalition of companies in the wireless industry are putting together a nonprofit organization in the UK this month to promote the development of 4G. The "Next Generation Mobile Networks" group, consisting of founding members KPN Mobile, Orange, Sprint Nextel, Vodafone, and T-Mobile plus add-ons China Mobile and NTT DoCoMo, is looking to 2010 for the commercial deployment of 4G devices -- that's less than four years away, folks. We're somewhat skeptical 4G is going to come together for any substantial population in that amount of time, but just in case, we're going start compiling our list of things to do with 2.5Gbps of WWAN bandwidth now.[Via EE Times]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
mroach @ Jul 2nd 2006 9:42AM
I wonder if this means that Sprint-Nextel will actually start using open and standard technologies. Somehow I doubt it, but it would be kind of nice if for 4G we could get most all carriers in the world on the same technology using the same freqencies.