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Beyond 3G: the coming age of ubiquity: in the wireless broadband stakes, 3G, Wi-Fi and WiMAX...

By Tanner, John C.
Publication: Wireless Asia
Date: Monday, November 15 2004

The cellular 3G wars are over. Or at least moot. Not that you'd know from the September flap in India over TRAI's proposal to issue so-called US-PCS spectrum to CDMA operators to alleviate a 2G CDMA spectrum shortage--and, in the process, cut into spectrum that has been globally allocated for GSM operators migrating to W-CDMA.

On the other hand, the India spectrum debate is also an indicator that 3G in the traditional sense isn't what it used to be. IMT-2000 was originally conceived as equipping handsets with 2-megabit pipes. The goalposts have since been not so much m

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