The key difference between i-Burst and other wireless technologies is what Arraycomm calls the smart antenna.
Its service is based on a technology called iBurst, developed by Arraycomm, an American firm.
Arraycomm's investors include Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ).
The trick for Arraycomm will be convincing those carriers to offer yet another data service while they're still pushing the ones they've already built.
Like Qualcomm, Arraycomm is designing chip technology that manufacturers will license.
Already Japan's Kyocera (nyse: KYO - news - people ) and South Korea's LG Electronics have taken out licenses based on Arraycomm's technology.
The system, which Arraycomm deployed in partnership with Vodaphone Australia and OZEmail, Australia's biggest Internet service provider, will be available for paying customers by March, Cooper says.
Arraycomm's approach allows the base station to constantly adapt the characteristics of the signal as the user moves around, keeping it focused, increasing spectrum efficiency and reducing interference from all the other signals permeating the air.
Arraycomm has developed a technology called i-Burst that it says can deliver a sustained data speed of one megabit per second over distances as far as five miles from the base station, during testing in Sydney, Australia.
It's no coincidence that Cooper sees smart antennas as the savior of the wireless industry: He serves as chairman of ArrayComm, a company that develops software for using antenna arrays to calculate the origin of cell signals.
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