LG VX-8000
Review of VX-8000 by Walter Mossberg
PERSONAL TECHNOLOGY
By WALTER S. MOSSBERG
Verizon Devices Use
High-Speed Network
For Voice, Web, E-Mail
December 16, 2004; Page B1
The most important development this year in U.S. wireless communications wasn't the headline-grabbing mergers of various wireless carriers. It was the quiet, gradual rollout by Verizon Wireless of a technology called EV-DO, which for the first time is providing broadband-speed Internet access over the air from anywhere in the cities where it has been deployed.
This new Verizon network, which the company calls "BroadbandAccess," promises users in 18 cities so far that they can get on the Internet at typical speeds of between 300 and 500 kilobits a second. That's the equivalent of w...
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