4G phones, 4G nets

Nokia will release 4G phones in 2010

The Nokia Company is planning to release new mobile phones in 2010 which will work in the fourth generation nets (4G), as Electronista announces quoting Nokia representatives.

Notebooks and other mobile devices will also be able to work in 4G nets. But it is not clarified if the devices would need a special outer modem for that or 4G module will be built in.

We shall remind that last autumn The Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) began 4G phones nets equipment release. The 4G basic stations software will be available in the second half of 2009.

NSN equipment for the 4G phones nets supports LTE technology that increases data transfer speed up to 326 MB a second to the user and up to 86 Mb a second from the user. Presently maximum data transfer speed to the user in the 3G nets is 7,2 MB a second.

It is supposed that the first 4G phones net will be launched at the beginning of 2010 by the American operator Verizon. At the same time similar nets will be opened by Canadian operators Bell and Telus. Other operators like AT&T will launch 4G phones nets in 2011.