(keitai-l) Re: article on streaming media to keitai

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Cingular Launches GPRS

By allNetDevices Staff <mailto:webmaster@allnetdevices.com>
August 28, 2001
U.S. wireless operator Cingular said Monday that it has commercially
launched next-generation GPRS wireless service in the Seattle area.
In addition, Cingular said that it expects to launch GPRS service, which
potentially can provide speeds as high as 144Kbps, in all its GSM markets in
North America by early next year.
Cingular was created as a partnership of several wireless vendors, only some
of which offered GSM service. It will be able to offer the faster wireless
access only in those areas, which are concentrated in portions of the West
and East coasts of the U.S.
North American competitors, most notably Sprint PCS, also have vowed to
start rolling out faster service by the end of the year. Unlike Cingular,
however, Sprint said it planned on rolling out faster wireless service
throughout its entire North American network.
The company said that data air-time won't count against wireless plan
minutes. Instead, users will pay on a per-kilobyte basis for data sent and
received. It said that it will offer data packages starting at $24.99 per
month.

//Pekka



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[mailto:keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net]On Behalf Of rolf van widenfelt
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 8:30 PM
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Subject: (keitai-l) Re: article on streaming media to keitai



the CNET article is from Nov 2000, so it is old news.
apparently, ATT has already begun a GPRS trial in the Seattle area, but
i haven't heard when it becomes available for normal consumers.

maybe you already knew that being that your company is based near there.
you must just be testing us keitai'ers :-)

-rolf

>
> I haven't seen any direct answers to this question, but I offer up some
news
> tidbits.
>
> "Executives said they would create a new kind of browser that could read
> both this old wireless Web content and new i-mode sites. But this will
take
> time, and they declined to give details on when this would actually be
> ready. "
>
> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-3934586.html?tag=prntfr
> http://www.attws.com/general/our_company/tech/mobility.shtml
>
> ... I'm afraid it will take longer than they say and certainly longer than
I
> would like.

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