14 DAY TRIAL // The latest headlines feature Samsung's demonstration of its new 4G mobile phone technology in South Korea, a project that required no less than $100 million. The breakthrough feature of this technology is the ultra high speed of up to 100Mbps, much faster than almost any consumer high-speed Internet access connections.
The showcasing took place in a bus that traveled at about 37 mph (miles per hour), while the 4G was able to stream data network access and also HDTVs. The company's representatives said that the bus could even travel at up to 70 miles per hour and the 4G would do its job in the same manner. "We hope to drive development and standardization of 4G mobile technology. Successful commercial launch of mobile WiMAX will lead to another success story of 4G communications," said Lee Ki-Tai, president of Samsung's telecommunications network business division, cited by Daily Tech.
But Samsung is not the only company to develop a 4G technology, as also Sprint Nextel recently announced it intends to develop and deploy the first 4G nationwide broadband mobile network, which will make use of the mobile WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) IEEE 802.16e-2005 technology standard.
The Sprint Nextel 4G mobility network will use the company's broad 2.5GHz spectrum holdings, which cover 85 percent of the households in the top 100 U.S. markets. To access that network, Sprint Nextel will work with Intel, Motorola and Samsung to incorporate WiMAX technology for advanced wireless communications and help make chipsets widely available for new consumer electronics devices, connecting consumers to the Internet and to each other while providing them with the flexibility to do what they want or need to do regardless of time or place.