by Tom Simonite, Technology Review
To be 4G, a mobile device like a cell phone must offer a connection of at least 100 megabits per second. WiMAX’s speeds can peak over 100 megabits per second, but it can’t reliably reach 4G-grade delivery, and Sprint’s network currently offers six megabits per second at most. For now, though, “WiMAX provides data service at the highest available rate,” says Zhi Ding, an electrical engineering professor at University of California, Davis, who leads a research group working on improving wireless communications.
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