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You don't need a 3G phone to get video

By Barry Fox

19 April 2003

CELLPHONE firms are praying video-on-the-move will be the next big thing. In the hope of cashing in, many invested billions in bandwidth licences to develop the latest 3G phones. But they may have wasted their money because you can watch videos just as well on upgraded 2G phones – if last week’s demos in Las Vegas are anything to go by.

Five companies – Microsoft, NTL, Tandberg, Texas Instruments and RadioScape – showed how a standard 2G phone network will happily relay video to your mobile from digital radio transmitters. You wouldn’t need to use the new 3G network of 20,000…

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