it seems every year since 1998 i have to do a 3g story, a standard they call in europe umts. (see fuzo and hear matrix at 22.30, fm 92.00). not a lot of things have changed in the last 4 years. the only thing left for europeans to be proud of is, that they brought together seven different standard groups on one table to decide finally to devide one system into a family again.

they already started to talk about 4g. in some ways i tend to say to keep the hope to fullfill what they were dreaming in some ways already for gsm and definately for umts: one worldwide system.

"The currently proposed 3G systems will, for the most part, not achieve this coordinated system vision or Global seamless roaming, leaving these as goals for fourth generation (4G) and beyond."</> A quote out of a paper that was already written in 1999.