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July 20, 2004

AT&T Wireless Now Has 3G in Four Cities

By Glenn Fleishman

AT&T Wireless announced today—as was leaked last week—that they have 3G wireless available in four U.S. cities: Detroit, Phoenix, San Francisco, and Seattle are up and running at 200 to 300 Kbps right now with San Diego (take that, Qualcomm home town?) and Dallas coming by the end of 2004. Upload speeds aren’t listed.

AT&T will charge $25 per month for phone-based 3G service, with streaming video costing an extra $5 per month. Data plans are $80 per month. No word yet on whether the Motorola phone that works with this W-CDMA network will allow the same kind of sidestepping to connect a laptop via Bluetooth or USB to get the lower price. It does have Bluetooth built in, which is a good sign.

Daily Wireless has a round-up of the announcement with details about the phone; they link to this Motorola press release with more phone details. The handset will cost about $300 before rebates or other deals. It has an integrated MP3 player, a large screen, three band (900/1800/1900) support, and handles GSM, GPRS, and W-CDMA. Laptop users will require a Merlin U530 UMTS card.

Posted by Glennf at July 20, 2004 12:56 PM

Categories: 2.5G and 3G

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