Buzz Out Loud Lounge: America's 3G Networks
America's 3G Networks
by sanbornjnk - 12/7/05 12:54 PMI know that some American carriers have launched "3G Networks",but when are the networks going live for cell phones? I mean Europe is going on 4G already! Thanks America for being such slow adopters! Also, does anyone know what carriers are doing about future networks as we speak??
The Carriers are Too Busy Suing and Lobbying
by pkscout - 12/7/05 4:28 PM In reply to: America's 3G Networks by sanbornjnkOK, I think I might have just made up two words in the subject. Oh well. 
US carriers are too busy going to court to stop cities form deploying wireless infrastructure and lobbying Congress to pass more corporate welfare and protection laws to actually create anything that can compete. We've had EVDO in our area for awhile and it is very ho hum. *Maybe* 512kb on a good day and really expensive on top of that (like $60/month for unlimited laptop access).
Of course since the FCC defines 200kb as broadband (what a joke), technically I'm getting almost three times broadband speed.
I suspect for the next high speed networks carriers will sue themselves and then get the FCC to define a modem as high speed access...
Cingular
by macflash411 - 12/7/05 5:19 PM In reply to: America's 3G Networks by sanbornjnkI was recently on engadget and found that cingular released a press statment on the 3g network in american so check it out.
Andrew
Cingular
by mwinship - 12/8/05 7:09 AM In reply to: Cingular by macflash411Yeah, I'm not impressed with the Cingular offering. It's a hybrid service using their Edge network which is painfully slow. They claim the advantage is if there is not higher speed option it falls back to edge. Since they released only in 16 smaller markets, virtually everyone will be using edge.
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