Friday, July 13th 2007

New Experimental Super 3G Network Could Reach Speeds Up To 300 Mbps

NTT DoCoMo a Japanese company announced today that it plans to begin testing on an experimental "Super 3G" system for mobile devices. Japans largest mobile carrier stated that they hope to achieve an impressive 300Mbps down in its tests over the wireless network. The company has already begun accepting proposals from suppliers and hopes to implement the Super 3G system in Japan by 2009.

The first Super 3G experiment was scheduled to be in an indoor enviroment with one transmitting antenna and one receiving antenna. NTT DoCoMo takes the experiment to a new level by using four Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antennas on both the transmitting and receiving side.Their goal is not just to achieve 300Mbps down but also to look at how well handovers will be handled between towers.
Source: Ars Technica
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7 Comments on New Experimental Super 3G Network Could Reach Speeds Up To 300 Mbps

#1
erocker
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Won't see this in the US (for a long time). Stupid corporate monopoilies and beaurocracies!:(
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#2
Kreij
Senior Monkey Moderator
Four antennas? This give a whole new meaning to "Dropped Calls".

Let's say that the person on one end says the words "Shallow Orbit" and the middle two antennas just happen to drop the "allow Orb".

Could be comical :D
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#3
WarEagleAU
Bird of Prey
3g is the new standard network, might be a few years but I can see it coming to us.
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#4
kakazza
3G is not alive and kicking in the US? Here people complain when their cell drops back to "UMTS speed" when they're streaming TV or something on their cell, hah.
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#5
PVTCaboose1337
Graphical Hacker
Basically the US has the stuff you guys had 2 years ago.
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#6
HellasVagabond
The US never was the best in cellular telephony....3G has been released in the EU over 2 years now including Greece.
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#7
Casheti
Wow USA seriously doesn't have 3G? That blows.. :p

But anyways all I can see this doing is slowly frying our brains :eek:
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