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On the heels of the trainwreck that has been the next generation DVD format, there’s some light at the end of the mobile network tunnel. Almost every major mobile provider (Vodafone, Sprint/Nextel, TMO…) have joined together to form the Next Generation Mobile Networks initiative to build a strategy for 4G network creation.

By the end of the decade, the NGMN hopes to be rolling out an entirely IP-switched mobile network protocol to replace the current disparate standards. This is what 3G was supposed to do, but I’m leaning on the axiom past performance has little bearing on future performance.

The possibilities for savings in software development and cross-carrier interactions are immense, not to mention the hope of a tremendously simplified device design. One ring to bring them all…

(via Phonescoop)