4G data network

technology
Also known as: fourth-generation data network

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mobile telephones

  • computer and mobile phone
    In mobile telephone: Development of cellular systems

    …led to the development of 4G technology. In 2008 the ITU set forward a list of requirements for what it called IMT-Advanced, or 4G; these requirements included data rates of 1 gigabit per second for a stationary user and 100 megabits per second for a moving user. The ITU in…

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WiMax

  • In WiMax

    Part of fourth generation (4G) wireless-communication technology, WiMax far surpassed the 30-metre (100-foot) wireless range of a conventional Wi-Fi local area network (LAN), offering a metropolitan area network with a signal radius of about 50 km (30 miles). In the early 2000s, WiMax proponents hoped to establish a global…

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