Has 3G stalled?
Has 3G (internal link) stalled? It seems so, as the article below indicates. But perhaps this is for the best, the infrastructure for it isn't in place. Promising 3G would only disappoint customers, people who are still waiting for expensive 2.5G services like GPRS or EDGE to appear, improve, and drop in price. Since we are still waiting for 2.5G, it will probably take many years for 3G to come along:
.AT&T Wireless Sees No Demand for WCDMA Service Thu Oct 3, 2:05 PM ET
PARIS (Reuters) - AT&T Wireless Services Inc. , the No. 3 U.S. wireless telephone company, on Thursday said it was seeing no demand for the long anticipated high-speed wireless service based on the WCDMA format.
"We don't see anything in the market driving demand for Wideband CDMA," said Leo Nikkari, AT&T Wireless' director of 3G industry relations. "I don't see anything pushing us to an early WCDMA launch," he said at the UMTS and Mobile Internet conference in Paris.
WCDMA, or Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, promises data speeds of about 2 megabits per second, which is more than 13 times faster than AT&T Wireless's current high-speed network that allows customers to easily check e-mail, surf the Web, and download applications. . . .