TRANSMISSION speeds from new GPRS cellphones, due to be launched in Britain
this year, will be held down to keep them within radiation absorption guidelines
and to stop them overheating, New Scientist has discovered. Cellphone
companies seem not to have learned from their massive over-hyping of WAP
services, and risk crippling the fledgling market for GPRS by making hollow
promises about speed.
“We have known for ages about these limitations,” says Rainer Lischetzki of
phone maker Motorola. “We regret the sales talk and data rate exaggeration.”
With today’s WAP phones you get a cut-down form of Web access. But users have…
