
The information that I could find on the web about
Sprint's new '3G' high-speed data service was a little short on solid information, so I spoke with Kevin Packingham, Senior Manager of Business Marketing for SprintPCS' new Vision service. I sought him out because Ubiquitous, affordable high speed wireless data services are something of a holy grail for tech-savvy road warriors like myself, so I received each morsel of information about Sprint's new service with great interest. Mr. Packingham spoke over the phone and he clarified many of the questions that I had about the new service.
The ITU uses the following criteria with regard to 3G:
"384 kbps for in pedestrian or urban environments"
FOMA in Japan does meet these requirements.
ryan wrote:
> FOMA users in japan, also a W-CDMA network. are getting
> 64 kbps on average.
Those are upload speeds.