Next wave of new generation of technology never stop for development -- basically what is 4G, ref to many teminology reviews, this technology suppose coming to market between 2008 and 2010 (which is NOW?). This technology provide TV in real time, and video download at high speed. Also, it might support automatic roaming to non-mobile network - such as WiFi and satellite.
Since I am in China currently -- just want to add some comment about China’s telecom sector, which has longed for its own, independent set of intellectual property rights for industry standards, is pinning its hopes on the success of future R&D for 4G standards. But they’ve had similar hopes for years.
Back dated around 2001, for example, an effort geared toward 4G project. Main participants at the time included some universuties (supported by government, off course) and variant network technology vendors (ie. Huawei, ZTE, Datang Technologies etc). According to its public report, was aimed at overseeing China’s 4G research and completing the standardization through a three-step strategy, with pre-commercialization set for 2010. And reviewing developed technical roadmap, they said a TD version of LTE was to be presented at the end of 2007 (but I haven't found any articles about that yet), a TD-LTE test network was to be set up by 2009, and LTE was to cover hotspots by 2010.
Somehow, nowhere is this seen more clearly than in mobile data services. The emergence of 3G High Speed Packet Access (HSPA), and soon Evolved HSPA (?) and next-generation standard LTE (a.k.a. 4G) access, that is enabling an entire new class of mobile broadband services and generating traffic volumes that are unsustainable using the classic hierarchical network architectures originally designed for mobile voice and low-speed data.
Next question: --- again, is it cheap?
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