China has leapfrogged itself by launching the world’s first fourth-generation standard.Data-rich 3G telephony, which allows high-speed transmission of data and images, is not yet available in mainland China. But a group of 10 “leading domestic institutions” called the “FuTURE Project” rolled out 4G in Shanghai.
China aims to hold field tests for the 4G system, whose rollout has cost 150 million yuan ($19.3 million) and will allow data transmission at up to 100Mbps, several times faster than current technology, and put it into trial commercial use up until 2010.
Source: Americasnetwork
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