4G
RSS 4GVoice ain't dead yet - but what about telcos?
News Though mobile telephony and voice over IP (VoIP) have stolen the thunder of fixed-line voice communications, voice itself is still a vital application in the telecoms world. Mike Cansfield, head of telecoms strategy practice at analyst... [16 May 2006]
NTT DoCoMo flirts with mobile WiMax
News Japan's NTT DoCoMo is eyeing a WiMax network. The mobile operator has said it has applied for a licence from the Japanese ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to run a test WiMax network. The outdoor network will be set up in... [30 Mar 2006]
RFID-tagged driverless cars on roads by 2056
News The UK's transport infrastructure will be radically changed over the next 50 years by RFID tracking tags, embedded sensors and an artificial intelligence network that will reduce congestion and pollution, according to scientists from the... [26 Jan 2006]
Radioactive: What's next for 3G?
Comment Take-up of 3G services around Europe has been disappointing, prompting operators to bring forward plans to upgrade their networks to 3.5G, and - wait for it - 3.99G. But just what this entails remains debatable. [08 Sep 2005]
Leader: Faith in the next generation?
Leader In the early days of Hutchison Whampoa rolling out 3G networks in various countries - not all that long ago but at a pretty dire time for telecoms, if you remember - there were those who considered the ventures worthless. [25 Aug 2005]
China and Japan announce 4G alliance
News China and Japan have decided to get together to develop the next generation of mobile telephony: 4G. An agreement to that effect will be signed on 26 August in Tokyo between state representatives, a spokesman for the... [25 Aug 2005]
Radioactive: Taipei gets meshed up
Comment There has been plenty of bluster in the past about covering entire cities or districts with meshed Wi-Fi but one city is intending to make this vision a reality. Futurity Media's Stewart Baines investigates what's cooking in Taiwan. [08 Jun 2005]
iTunes phone 'is coming soon'
News Motorola CEO Ed Zander hailed a storming quarter for the phone maker and promised that the long-awaited, oft-delayed iTunes phone will debut in the none-too-distant future. Although Zander may be excited about the prospect, rumour has it... [21 Apr 2005]
A Fourth-Generation MIMO-OFDM Broadband Wireless System: Design, Performance, and Field Trial Results
White Paper Increasing demand for high-performance 4G broadband wireless is enabled by the use of multiple antennas at both base station and subscriber ends. Multiple antenna technologies enable high capacities suited for Internet... [28 Mar 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Choose the right vendor
Comment Don't want your company to get stuck with an IT vendor that will disappoint you later on? Try this evaluation process outlined by Quocirca's Clive Longbottom. In Quocirca, we see a lot of companies sitting on technologies chosen for all... [29 Nov 2004]
Sino the times: China to call the shots in tech?
News The size and ambition of the Chinese tech market will in the future mean it doesn't determine only the standards that get used in that country but those that get green-lighted around the world. In research considering China's moves in... [28 Jul 2004]
4G - The Future of Mobile Applications
White Paper This document recommends that rather than choose a single radio technology for information retrieval and dissemination, all possible radio networks should be used to the customer's best advantage. This document predicts that future... [25 Jun 2004]
What's beyond 3G? 3.5G, stupid
News With 2004 looking like the year of widespread launches of 3G cellular networks based on the W-CDMA standard, experts have identified what's mostly likely to come next. HSDPA - or (take a breath now) High Speed Downlink Packet Access - is... [29 Mar 2004]
4G phone tested by Japan and China
News Japan and China plan joint experiments on a new generation internet-capable mobile phone for high-speed data transmissions that will work in both countries at far higher speeds than current 3G phones. [26 Nov 2003]
Analysts predict non-3G mobile advances
News Uncertainties about the future development of 3G mobile means a number of alternatives are on operators' agendas, some below and some above promised 3G speeds. A range of research out this week suggests some operators will offer... [21 Nov 2003]
