At a technology conference in South Korea, Samsung demonstrated a working prototype of a device for transmitting 100 Mbit / s data flow to a receiver moving at 60 km / h. According to eyewitnesses, the receiver was about the size of a refrigerator.
Samsung engineers claim that their device is capable of transmitting the same data stream even as the receiver speed increases to 120 km / h, and the signal will not be lost even when the receiver moves from one cell to another. With the stated characteristics, this technology may well claim to be the fourth-generation (4G) cellular communication system. It remains only to reduce the receiver to the size of a mobile phone - and you can release technology to the market. According to Samsung’s plans, the first 4G terminals will go on sale in 2008, and the first mobile devices in 2010.