Cingular Keeps Up With The Joneses (VZW/Sprint)
March 7th, 2006 | by amarfresh |Cingular finally has an on-demand video streaming service.
Starting at $20 a month, subscribers can watch video clips from Cartoon Network, CNN, ESPN, and NBC among others. The service will use Cingular’s high-speed UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) 3G data network, which is currently available in 16 cities.
UMTS isn’t quite EV-DO, at least here in the USA. Significantly faster than EDGE, Cingular’s implementation still only gets around 300k downstream. A far cry from 1.7mb I got from Verizon’s EV-DO. Either way, both Cingular and Verizon are beat by Sprint’s live television PowerVision offering.
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