This week Toshiba began recruiting staff for its Bristol Telecommunications
Research Laboratory. Over the next five years the company is putting £10
million into developing the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System, which
will help digital cellphones to transfer data from the Internet much faster than
existing phones. Toshiba expects Europe and Japan to adopt UMTS as a common
system and make it a world standard.
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