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Just wait until cell phone networks go high-speed. It will start to happen later this year, as carriers in Japan begin to deploy so-called 3G, or third-generation wireless cell phone systems. Spreading from east to west, the nimble networks should arrive in Europe in 2002 and the U.S. in 2003. Unlike the previous two generations of cellular networks, 3G systems have been designed from the get-go to carry data as well as voice. Carriers promise downloads approaching 2.4 megabits per second (Mbps)-twice as fast as wired broadband services, and fast enough to bombard cell phones, handhelds and laptops with video, music and games.
Or so they say. But there is a growing chorus warning that 3G will not be all it's cracked up to be.
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