What is the LATENCY of the network. Even at the glacial speeds here in
the USA (20kbps?) it's the network delays that kill you on mobile apps.
Bill Volk
> -----Original Message-----
> Mika,
>
> I am not an expert on these things. But:
> (a) AU now has 2.4 Mbps download, and DoCoMo will soon have
> 10 Mbps download so the limits will not be
> the radio section of the signal path, but other bottlenecks.
> (b) there probably already is compression in the telecommunication
> system (I don't know for sure but it's easy to check).
> If there is already good compression than additional compression
> will not improve things much. This is just my guess, but can
> easily be checked.
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Received on Thu Jul 1 03:28:35 2004