With 4G, customers can use mobile broadband services with speeds up to ten times higher than with today's turbo 3G. 4G opens up new possibilities for customers to use and enjoy services on their laptops, requiring high transmission speed and capacity, such as web TV broadcasting, extensive online gaming, web conferences and advanced business solutions.
Catlett said Qwest Communications, the project's network service provider, was already learning more about high-speed transmission from its work on the project.
As long as there is a birds-eye view from one building to the next, the laser beam can transmit to and from a high-speed transmission center.
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) that runs the facility has for a decade been fitting it with state-of-the-art digital electronics, a new central computer, and high-speed transmission lines to carry the data that the 25m, 200-tonne dishes gather.
Starting this month, Nextel will be an early player in high-speed data transmission.
Once commercialized, 5G mobile communications technology will be capable of ultra-high-speed data transmission up to several hundred times faster than even the 4G LTE-Advanced technology due for launch later this year.
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The cellular telecommunications industry is entering a period of transition from aging, analog-era transmission technology to high-speed "third-generation" (3G) mobile networks.
He says he left Iowa because of the higher cost of high-speed data-transmission lines, too few firms like his own, and too little for 20-somethings like himself to do at weekends.
The two rivals are developing a high-volume, six-speed automatic transmission suitable for front-wheel-drive cars.
Now EDGE's successor, a 3G-wireless technology called HSDPA (High-Speed Download Packet Access), provides transmission rates of 400 to 700 kilobits per second.
"Just as is the case for our nation's roads and bridges, we must continue to invest in improvements to cell towers and transmission equipment, in order to ensure ubiquitous, high-speed Internet for all Americans, " Genachowski said in an official statement.
And in the next version of the National Infrastructure Plan, it might want to provide a proper vision for the development of the country's infrastructure networks covering energy generation and transmission, South East runway capacity, national and international freight connectivity and high-speed communication networks.
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