July 16th, 2010 |
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16 Aug 2010 update: http://www.goinglte.com/4g-it%E2%80%99s-all-semantics-1606/
4G. WTF is it?
Here’s a brief introduction on the scene in Malaysia.
March 2007 – Izzi Broadband surfaced. That was the time where 3G had problems scaling up in terms of speed and subscriber capacity. WE were hunching at 384kbps (0.4 Mbps) on 3G Maxis, and DiGi was stuck on EDGE (real world 150kbps). In Subang where I lived, there were huge campaigns to create awareness of this new Izzi “4G” technology. Now, as history has shown, it was all pure marketing bs. As much as we hate it, it was an important first step in the advancement of technology. Someone has to spear-head the industry, and the big fishes are always cautious (but that is soon changing…)
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June 23rd, 2010 |
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16 Aug 2010 update: http://www.goinglte.com/4g-it%E2%80%99s-all-semantics-1606/
First off, a short introduction.
When 3G came out, it operated at a theoretical “max” of 384kbit/sec. That’s barely enough for a steady YouTube stream. And even then, most early service providers were not able to keep up with their promises of “video conferencing”, broadband on the phone claims, etc.
Few years later, a newer standard dubbed “3.5G” or more commonly known to the techies as HSDPA (high speed data packet access) went mainstream. This is when the smartphone era started to pick up as more people adopted the technology. All is good and dandy; until CONGESTION came into the picture.
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April 22nd, 2010 |
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Don’t call the next iPhone the iPhone 4G. It isn’t! It’s just wrong!
Here are some predictions gathered from around the web.
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February 25th, 2010 |
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Update: The state of 4G [Ars Technica]
As a marketer, as an advertiser of a product or service, often times we have to shout out half-truths to sell our product. It is a fact. We do it seemingly quite often these days, ignoring the little prick from our conscience. Eventually it shapes our personality and individual actions towards one another. It is quite a scary thought.
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