(keitai-l) Re: [Fwd: FYI: brief explanation of the "i-mode" web enabled cell phoneservice]]

From: Gerhard Fasol <fasol_at_eurotechnology.com>
Date: 08/07/00
Message-ID: <398EB441.40CCD1E@eurotechnology.com>
Ren: I fully agree - that's why I wrote "will go up towards"
instead of "will be" :)

Gerhard
fasol@eurotechnology.com

Renfield Kuroda wrote:
> 
> Gerhard Fasol wrote:
> 
> > To remove some further "technical shallowness" :)
> >
> > the data transfer rate for imode at present is 9.6kbit/sec and
> > will go up towards 2 Mbit/sec with 3G next year. Of course, these
> > data rates are the ideal maximum - it does not mean you achieve that
> > at midnight near Hachiko in Shibuya...
> 
> I pessimistically doubt it will get anywhere near 2M/sec next year, except
> in explicitly controlled lab tests.
> 
> Realistically we can expect a couple hundred k/sec in best conditions next
> year, I think.
> 
> r e n
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Received on Mon Aug 7 16:01:13 2000