The U.S. is now ahead of the EU in adoption of high-speed, third-generation wireless services.
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Outsiders feared that telecoms operators would cut investment on such things, because of the huge sums they had spent to win third-generation wireless licences.
Set to splurge on developing its fixed-line and third-generation wireless services, the firm aims to staunch the loss of market share to China Mobile.
CDMA, which now forms the basis of third-generation wireless networks.
Third-generation wireless (the first two were analog and the current version of digital) can move data at 384 kilobits a second, six times the speed of a good computer modem.
"Any substantial delay would hurt the competitiveness of the U.S. third generation (wireless) market.... If there's not agreement, the U.S. and the rest of the world could end up on different bands, " Salters said.
Business is booming in the cell phone business because as you go from the second generation to the third generation of wireless communication, you need higher density flash to do all of these multimedia tasks in addition to the basic code storing.
The information, which can include traffic information, weather, stock quotes, news, sports and dozens of other snippets, would be transmitted to the watches not by any fancy third-generation wireless phone technology, nor via satellite, but rather by FM radio signals using a technology called DirectBand.
Here's why: While third-generation high-speed wireless networks were slowly deployed in the U.S., they are now more widespread, and demand for these networks is growing.
Third generation mobile phones will allow users wireless access to the internet.
The speculation surrounded the "third-generation, " or 3G, wireless market.
One industry analyst said HandSpring and OminSky deserve credit for their ability to execute, but that the real benefits of wireless data will only come when 3G (third-generation) technology is available.
Novatel began to ship its next-generation Ovation wireless router for EV-DO Revision A networks during the third quarter.
Mobile games have to work over a variety of wireless networks, such as CDMA networks, GSM networks, third-generation networks and wi-fi networks.
The importance of wireless internet services is expected to grow dramatically when companies introduce third-generation mobile phones in a few years time.
T-Mobile, a division of Germany's Deutsche Telekom, is the fourth-largest U.S. wireless carrier and, until last month, lacked the capacity to support "third-generation" (3G) high-speed data networks--which are already offered by some of its larger U.S. rivals, including Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel.
T-Mobile, a division of Germany's Deutsche Telekom (nyse: DT - news - people ), is the fourth-largest U.S. wireless carrier and, until last month, lacked the capacity to support "third-generation" (3G) high-speed data networks--which are already offered by some of its larger U.S. rivals, including Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel (nyse: S - news - people ).
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