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3G is the third generation of mobile phones standards and technology, after 2G.Japan was the first country to introduce 3G nationally and it is based on the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) family of standards under the International Mobile Telecommunications programme, "IMT-2000". 3G technologies enable network operators to offer users a wider range of more advanced services while achieving greater network capacity through improved spectral efficiency Services include wide-area wireless voice telephony and broadband wireless data, all in a mobile environment. Typically, they provide service at 5-10 Mb per second.

The most significant feature of 3G mobile technology is that it supports greater numbers of voice and data customers in urban areas and provides higher data rates at lower incremental cost than 2G. Other than providing higher data rates to user, 3G technology provides users to do video conferencing. Users is able to see each other on the phone like a video conferencing if both the user have a 3G phone and subscribe to the 3G services.

While the 3G market may be definitely gaining traction, it is rapidly approaching a crossroads in 3G+ access technologies, where the needs of different market segments can vary substantially, and the potential rewards (and losses) for the different technology vendors and mobile communications operators could be substantial. The “3G+ future” is offering operators and end-users more choice than there has been in the market for some time. This study examines the rapid evolution of 3G access technologies and the market conditions for their adoption, as well as the parallel 3G developments in mobile devices, infrastructure, value added services and operator strategy. The analysis is rounded off with 3G subscriber, mobile device, base-station deployment and capital expenditure forecasts.


It's been said that 3G will continue to dominate the mobile phone market for the next five years. Currently 3G is already been upgraded to 3.5G. Even now mobile are equip with mobile broadband which means we can surf internet on the go at high speed using 3.5G network on our laptop and also some laptops have built in 3.5G too. Nowadays 3G does not just applies in phone it is constantly being upgraded and it is being built into laptops. As now 3G is rather popular nowadays thus it is costing the price of it to drop.

3G transport technology can be viewed as a mixture of "wireless N-ISDN" and an extended GPRS network. The functional leap implemented by 3G networks that differentiates them from 2G networks is also the internet service connection. In this sense, it could be argue that 2.5G mobile networks and 3G mobile networks fall into the same generation. The 3G mobile phone networks, however, provide significantly greater bandwidth and therefore can accommodate new mobile services, such as enhanced multimedia applications that cannot be supported by 2.5G mobile networks. This important distinction is the first indication that applications and services, not only technologies, will determine future generation differentiation.
Europe : The ITU Radiocommunication Assembly took a decision of global importance to include WiMax-derived technology in the framework of the IMT-2000 set of standards. This agreement paves the way for the deployment of a range of voice, data, and multimedia services to both stationary and mobile devices. Significantly, it opens the door to mobile Internet, catering to demand in both urban and rural markets. The ITU Radiocommunication Assembly (RA-07) formally recognized technology derived from IEEE 802.16 by incorporating it as the sixth terrestrial IMT-2000 radio interface. This is the first addition to IMT-2000 since the original five were adopted years ago as part of the 3G radio standards being used globally and significantly pushes the technological envelope of IMT-2000 capabilities. IMT-2000 — "International Mobile Telecommunications" — is a global standard defined by ITU in a set of interdependent ITU Recommendations, which include the specifications for the radio interfaces of advanced wireless communications systems such as 3G mobile. An initial application for the IMT-2000 Advanced standard was made at the ITU-R WP8F meeting in Kobe, Japan, in January this year. The adoption of the latest radio interface was the culmination of tireless effort among administrations, industry and ITU experts. "It gives me great satisfaction to observe that the ITU Radiocommunication Sector continues to be responsive to the most pressing needs of the wireless industry in the deployment of innovative technological solutions," said Valery Timofeev, Director of the ITU Radiocommunication Bureau. "The successful approval of the two new Resolutions and four draft Recommendations dealing with IMT technologies represents a pinnacle in the recent technical achievements of the Sector."


Current 3G gadgets on the market

Vodafone introduces its first 3G mobile business device which converges mobile with laptop: the revolutionary i-mate JASJAR with Window Mobile 5.0

The unique i-mate JASJAR is the first in a series of devices which challenges the boundaries between mobile and laptop by providing the full Microsoft Windows environment while on the move. This allows users to work on Word or Excel documents, view Powerpoint documents or PDFs, send and receive email at the same time as talking on the mobile or conduct a real time video call with another person on the other side of the world.

The i-mate JASJAR is ten devices in one as it functions as a PC, mobile phone, personal organizer, 1.3 mega pixel digital camera with flash, video recorder, gaming console, MP3 player, voice recorder, video player and speaker phone.

Phil Patel, Vodafone Director of Business Markets, said Vodafone's launch of the i-mate JASJAR reinforces the benefits that 3G services have for business customers.