What's right with telecom

Higher-speed wireless services are in the offing: both faster IEEE 802.11 standards and the much-maligned third-generation (3G) cellular systems, which, despite uninspiring debuts in cellphone-friendly Japan, are poised for a much better reception in coming months there and in places like China and the USA. And coming not much later will be true broadband wireless networks - pure Internet-protocol (IP) voice-capable 2-Mbit/s-and-higher data networks for which some analysts are even using the term 4G.