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4G is cheaper and better than 3G
August 14, 2002
While gamers are eagerly anticipating the arrival of 3G in Asia
as telcos are in the throes of putting everything in place and calculating
how to recoup their billion-dollar investments, 4G is not far away.
However, a standard definition of 4G has yet to be established.
Some believe that it would encompass speeds of up to 20-40 Megabits
per second (Mbps). But others have been reluctant to commit to that.
"No one is getting 20-40 Mbps at home or at work so why would one
expect that from a mobile system, which is always handicapped vis-a-vis
a fixed network. 4G, to me, means "towerless wireless," which comes
from an ad hoc peer-to-peer architecture. The goal of 4G is to replicate
the fixed Internet experience with the mobile Internet experience
and it should be a cheaper and better alternative to 3G," says Allen
H. Kupetz, director of sales & international business development
of MeshNetworks.
According to Kupetz, it would cost a company up to 90 percent less
to deploy a 4G network, one example being MeshNetworks' Mesh-enabled
architecture (MEA), as opposed to a 3G network. And MEA will provide
speed to the user at up to 6 Mbps.
As Japan is by far the most advanced market in terms of technology
adoption and the biggest market for wireless gaming in Asia, where
it has more than two million people playing games on their mobile
phones, it will be among the first in Asia to implement MeshNetworks'
MEA suite of products.
Korea and Singapore will likely be implementing the MeshLAN before
MEA, a wireless network based on 802.11b standards. All these installations
will likely take place over the next six months.
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