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August 26, 2005
China and Japan to work together in developing 4G
(AFP) An agreement to that effect will be signed on August 26 in Tokyo between state representatives, a spokesman for the Japanese ministry for interior affairs and communication told AFP.
"During the meeting, we expect to sign an agreement regarding co-operation in research and development, with a view to creating a standard to be used worldwide," he said.
The spectrum of R&D in this case could be almost anything, given that the technical specifics of 4G have yet to be firmed up, a spokesman for Samsung--one of the key members of the 4G Forum, a vendor coalition conducting 4G R&D--said recently. "Currently, the debate is around the uses for 4G... We will then base the technical specifications around those uses," he said.
Unlike 3G, 4G service is entirely packet-based. Recently Japan's NTT DoCoMo announced it achieved 1Gbps real-time packet transmission in the downlink at the moving speed of about 20km/h in a field experiment on fourth-generation (4G) radio access. Among other features 4G provideds:
* Support interactive multimedia services: teleconferencing, wireless Internet, etc.
* Wider bandwidths, higher bit rates.
* Global mobility and service portability.
* Low cost.
* Scalability of mobile networks.
Japan was the first country to launch third generation mobile services. China, on the other hand, represents the largest mobile market in the world, with close to 335 million users at the end of 2004.
Posted by admin at August 26, 2005 11:42 AM