4g 3.5g
4G coming 'in three years'
News While European operators are pressing ahead with rollouts of HSDPA networks - a type of 3.5G - their counterparts in the land of the rising sun are already working on the subsequent generation. NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile operator, will have... [04 Jan 2007]
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]
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 so-called 2.75G and... [21 Nov 2003]
The WiMax Spectrum Picture
White Paper Wireless broadband is clearly at a crossroads. Convergence is taking place between the technology road maps of WiMAX/802.16 and advanced 3GPP, 3.5G-4G cellular systems. These technologies are on a collision course and will provide similar bandwidth... [14 Nov 2005]
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 already in... [29 Mar 2004]
Update: Nortel sheds UMTS access for $320m
News Nortel has announced plans to shed its UMTS access business, claiming a lack of proper scale has hampered the unit's progress. Alcatel has signed on the dotted line with a Memorandum of Understanding to acquire the loss-making unit for $320m. [01 Sep 2006]
Wireless broadband to be cellular feast
News Massive growth in wireless broadband services is being forecast, with the market set to be dominated by cellular technologies. Telecoms analyst Analysys Mason predicts there will be a total of 2.1 billion wireless broadband customers globally... [05 Aug 2008]
