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Wireless Internet Access: 3G vs. WiFi?

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Overview This article compares and contrasts two technologies for delivering broadband wireless Internet access services: "3G" vs. "WiFi". The former, 3G, refers to the collection of third generation mobile technologies that are designed to allow mobile operators to offer integrated data and voice services over mobile networks. The latter, WiFi, refers to the 802.11b wireless Ethernet standard that was designed to support wireless LANs.

Although the two technologies reflect fundamentally different service, industry, and architectural design goals, origins, and philosophies, each has recently attracted a lot of attention as candidates for the dominant platform for providing broadband wireless access to the Internet. It remains an open question as to the extent to which these two technologies are in competition or, perhaps, may be complementary.

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Publisher	Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	August 2002	Downloads	102
Format	White Papers
Topics	Ethernet, Wireless LAN, Wireless Internet

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