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3G will remain Agonizingly Slow at Firstdate: October 7, 2001  We can walk and talk, but we cannot walk and watch The new 3G wireless networks will be agonizingly slow from the beginning, and everything points to the fact that this will hold true for a long time to come, said Johan Jorgense, Founder and Chairman of Voxbiblia. He suggested we can surly forget streaming or downloading moving pictures and other rich media to your hand such as MP3, because 3G high speed access will not happen. European operators are in a debt mountain, they are now looking for ways to cut the costs of building their new 3G networks. One cost is speed. We won't have 2Mbps, more likely between 64 and 144kbps. That means the number of base stations can be kept down. According to a Swedish professor, Zens Zander, it will cost around US $4000 to download a movie over a 3G network and mobile will be a big problem. In the mobile area, where we move from one cell to another we encounter a paradox, the faster we move the less bandwidth we can consume. We can walk and talk, but we cannot walk and watch. The more bandwidth you are using (images, games), the more senses you need to engage (mostly your eyes), and the less mobile you get. More bandwidth also demands larger screen in order to make the content compelling. Professor Zander concluded "mobile high-speed access makes less sense", a 14" TV screen under your arm doesn't exactly make you more mobile than before.
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