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Cingular Completes First 3.6Mbps Mobile Data Call

Monty Solomon (monty@roscom.com)
Wed, 4 Jan 2006 22:34:53 -0500

Live From Las Vegas: Cingular Completes First 3.6Mbps Mobile Data
Call
- Jan 4, 2006 06:14 PM (PR Newswire)

Commercial 3G Network Used to Showcase HSDPA Evolution

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Cingular didn't need any luck in
Vegas today as it became the first wireless carrier in the world to
complete a mobile data call using a 3.6Mbps (megabit per second) HSDPA
(High Speed Downlink Packet Access) device on its commercial 3G
network.

Cingular showcased its Las Vegas HSDPA network by carrying the live
call using a laptop computer equipped with an Option Wireless PC Modem
Card and QUALCOMM's MSM6280TM chipset. The company said it will
showcase the potential of its network technology tonight at this
year's Digital Experience event at the Bellagio hotel.

- http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=54459394

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