Shanghai stages 4G telephony rollout, claims a world first

[Anusha]

China has launched a trial run of home-grown fourth-generation mobile technology in Shanghai. 4G technology provides wireless services at much faster speeds, sharply improving high-quality images and data services, and potentially allowing for such features as multi-channel high-definition TV broadcasting. Third-generation (3G) telephony is still not available in China due to repeated government delays and therefore engineers have moved directly to developing the ultra-fast 4G technology.

The 4G trial in Shanghai cost 150 million yuan (19 million dollars) and was billed by the government as the world's first rollout of the technology. However, South Korea's high-tech giant Samsung Electronics last August unveiled the world's first fourth-generation (4G) mobile technology with a demonstration on a moving bus and expects to put it into commercial use by 2010. After more field tests of the 4G system, China aims to put the technology into trial commercial sometime before 2010.

"It testifies that the technology we've developed is feasible and brings us one step closer to put it into commercial use. The Shanghai system shows that we have entered the final phase of our project," the China Daily quoted You Xiaohu, a leading expert involved in China's 4G development programme.

News source: Physorg (http://www.physorg.com/news89270333.html)

[Kasunm]

ane manda ubatath marama dewal thama ahuwenne wonder how the hand sets look like

[Anusha]

ane manda ubatath marama dewal thama ahuwenne wonder how the hand sets look like
:D :D
We are surely gonna miss a bigger screen :yes:

[Kasunm]

yea tell me bout it i think the best screen we can get is the SE p900i wonder how it wud be to have a phone with a high res screen

[udaraumd]

4G is towerless wireless, more formally known as wireless ad hoc peer-to-peer networking

[udaraumd]

In March 2002 NTT DoCoMo announced that trials had begun on the next generation of mobile communications. Dubbed '4G', the new I-mode technology will increase data transmission rates (up to 200 times faster than 2G at 20Mbit/sec). 3G data rates are currently 2Mbit/sec, which is very fast compared to 2G's 9.6Kbit/sec. 4G builds on the 3G standard, although it integrates and unifies the different interfaces (W-CDMA, CDMA2000, EDGE, etc).