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Article: Beyond 3G: the coming age of ubiquity: in the wireless broadband stakes, 3G, Wi-Fi and WiMAX will all win in the emerging next-gen paradigm of ubiquitous connectivity--broadband services via multiple wireless access links hidden from the user. In theory, anyway. The technology is mostly here, but some operators are more worried about how they're going to bill for it.(Cover Story)
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- Wireless Asia
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- November 15, 2004
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The cellular 3G wars are over. Or at least moot. Not that you'd know from the September flap in India over TRAI's proposal to issue so-called US-PCS spectrum to CDMA operators to alleviate a 2G CDMA spectrum shortage--and, in the process, cut into spectrum that has been globally allocated for GSM operators migrating to W-CDMA.
On the other hand, the India spectrum debate is also an indicator that 3G in the traditional sense isn't what it used to be. IMT-2000 was originally conceived as equipping handsets with 2-megabit pipes. The goalposts have since been not so much moved as kicked at from behind by Wi-Fi, WiMAX and other portable wireless broadband wireless ...