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...while i-mode operates at only a poky 9.6 kbps, the company promises that when its service moves to third-generation wireless technology, 3G, it will blow away anything on your desktop PC. DoCoMo will introduce 3G in Japan this spring and then begin a global rollout in Europe, first using a somewhat slower interim technology. AT&T Wireless plans to offer a version of i-mode later this year...
...world via a single 100mbps (megabits-per-second) pipe. Each of the network's 12,000 connections shares this bandwidth. Says Vernal: "If one-third of the undergraduate population was using the FAS network at the same time, each student would be connected at the speed of a 56.6kbps modem." That's the connection speed you'd expect of your mom's AOL connection, not of a prestigious academic institution...
...much larger than the data and voice streams that existing wireless networks were designed to handle. "The ability to send that much data over wireless lines is up in the air," notes consumer electronics analyst Jay Srivatsa of Gartner Group Dataquest. Higher-speed networks, such as the 128-kbps Ricochet from Metricom now being tested and the 384K TDMA network due out next summer, could help resolve some of these issues...
SIERRA WIRELESS AIRCARD 300 $400, plus $20 to $55 a month Pop this 19.2-Kbps modem into any Windows notebook for untethered Net surfing...
METRICOM RICOCHET $220, plus $60 to $100 a month; available in August Cruising at 128 Kbps, the Ricochet network will turbo-charge the wireless...