Finland's Wireless Fast Track Thanks in large measure to mobile handset pacesetter Nokia, this small nation, about the size of Montana with a population of some 5 million people, is where the rest of the world looks for wireless guidance. But so far no one is willing to put it together. Printer friendly version.
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3G services will enable video calls, high-speed Internet access, multimedia services, and other features. CDMA2000 3XRTT, and other air interfaces that will be implemented in new spectrum, not spectrum already populated with 2G service. In 2002 the number of worldwide 3G subscribers will be only 4.8 million of a worldwide subscriber base of 1.05 billion, Cahners In-Stat projects. In 2005, 3G will account for 210 million subscribers, or 13 percent of the worldwide subscriber base of 1.6 billion, but 2.5 and 2.5-plus G subscribers will account for 48 percent of the worldwide subscriber base in that year. In-Stat doesn't expect 3G to be deployed in the United States until late 2003, while Europe is expected to start in 2002, and Japan later this year.