:: Wireless broadbandied about ::

Monday, February 07, 2005

I'm going to take a break from my normal irrelevance (which is to say I'm going to focus on a different kind of irrelevance, not become relevant) to talk shop for a bit, but I'll keep it very, very brief.



You may have seen one or more television advertisements during the Super Bowl for Verizon Wireless' new VCAST service, which is simply their brand name for a content package utilizing a faster connection protocol called CDMA2000 EV-DO on three initial handsets. EV-DO is just another step in a long march towards ubiquitous wireless broadband, albeit a big one. For the first time, consumers in the US have access to mobile phones with data speeds capable of streaming multimedia and browsing the web at near-desktop broadband rates (Verizon has offered a PC data card for a while now, but has targeted it exclusively at business users). Of course the phones are still restricted to walled gardens and suffer from other limitations imposed by the carrier (e.g. no Bluetooth), and several European and Asian countries have had such technology in place for years, but the launch of a consumer-targeted nation-wide wireless broadband network is an important milestone for the mobile phone industry.

Next up: WCDMA, FLASH-OFDM, HSDPA, and EV-DV.

Posted by morland @ 12:56 PM

:: Comments ::

you know what's coming.

Posted by: dr. glasses on February 7, 2005 01:25 PM

wait for it...

wait for it...

Posted by: dr. glasses on February 7, 2005 01:25 PM

doh doh doh mr. orland!

Posted by: dr. glasses on February 7, 2005 01:25 PM

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