CNET también está disponible en español. Don't show this again. "There's a lot of unexplored territory in 3G, but it's just a standard and an access method," he said. "Our stuff relates to wireless networks as a whole.". The improvement in battery life could be achieved by using smarter power-control algorithms. The new techniques may also allow carriers to allocate different bit rates to different users on the fly. Voice calls, for example, don?t require as high a bit rate as mobile Internet connections or videoconferencing. The research that Papandriopoulos is part of allows carriers to divide users into different groups and assign bandwidth to them dynamically as their needs change.

"We've developed an algorithm that enables carriers to meet everyone's quality of service requirements," he said, ZDNet Australia's Patrick Gray reported from Sydney, Australian iphone xs max tough - matte black researchers are working to extend the life of batteries in mobile wireless devices and to provide carriers with the capacity to deliver higher bit rates to new handsets, The latter efforts, if they lead to higher transmission speeds, could provide some impetus to the stalled promise of 3G (third-generation) networks, although researcher John Papandriopoulos says the new concepts have wider applications..

CNET también está disponible en español. Don't show this again. DirectConnect has become one of Nextel's chief moneymakers and one of its most popular services. Subscribers make three DirectConnect calls for every two standard cell phone calls, West said. Expanding the reach of the service will only make it more popular, West said--and put Nextel further ahead of other wireless carriers. West did not release prices for any new services, or say what geographic areas would be getting the expanded service first.

Motorola under the hoodThe change to DirectConnect is among the scores of projects iphone xs max tough - matte black being developed right now by Motorola, which is currently in the process of upgrading its IDEN, (Integrated Dispatch Enhanced Network) cell phone standard, said Fred Wright, Motorola vice president of global telecommunications, Nextel is the only major U.S, cell phone carrier to use IDEN, which is the fourth most popular cell phone network standard in the world and the only one that currently allows for DirectConnect style services..

Nextel hasn't yet decided whether it will take advantage of all the new elements being added to IDEN, which include faster wireless Web capabilities and doubled capacity for cell phone calls, Wright said. "These are big development programs: 12 to 18 months from..start to hard architectural work," Wright said. To increase the speed and capacity of IDEN, Motorola is relying on software it developed that lets six cell phone calls be conducted simultaneously over the same sliver of spectrum, Wright said. The ratio is usually one call to one chunk of spectrum.