Japan / China to develop 4G mobile phone

Nov 23 2003 - 12:56 PM ET | Data, Staff Picks
While the rest of the world is still getting ready to hop on the 3G bandwagon, Japan and China are working together on 4G. The three-year project is going to start in December, and will use the upcoming IPv6 standardl. bq. "Under the program, the two countries will experiment on sending and receiving Internet data via the mobile phone at speeds of up to 100 megabits per second, much faster than the third-generation phones with speeds of up to 2.4 megabits per second..."