NTT DoCoMo: 300Mbps on your phone

July 14, 2007 by Santaduck.

In Japan, the gigantic cell provider NTT DoCoMo is planning an wireless 300Mbps service experiment for cell phones, a “Super-G” configuration, in another step toward 4G.

Yes that’s an “M” for mega. This cellular service will be faster than wired home internet. By several orders of magnitude. Imagine the iPhone on this.

My ADSL is consumer grade, with 1.5Mbps DL speed, which is pretty standard for much of the US, with some regions at double that speed (3.0Mbps), or half that speed, 768 Kbps.

In related news DoCoMo is helping fund AT&T’s 3G network in the United States, specifically on the island of Oahu in Hawaii, which is a destination for many Japanese tourists, who find they cannot use their handsets because NTT’s 2G is proprietary and incompatible, and GSM is not included on their 3G phones. Read more here at PC World.

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