3G is here, and its for us

3G has come to India and is enjoying all the hype it could hope for. It promises to change the life of a mobile user to a different level. Most people in India still are not comfortable with the news of 3g, the reason being most people are happy with what they have. All they would want for is a reduction is price. Also the whole 3g spectrum allotment mess and the revealing of huge misappropriations in the 2g sale which has come out, all these has forced people to look at 3G with caution. But the basic understanding of what 3g is would help people to appreciate it and adapt and most importantly accept it.

Before moving into 3G lets see what the 1, 2 and 3 which position itself before G are. These are simply standards. G stands for generation. If u have studied about the evolution of computers u might have come across generations.

Lets take 1 G for instance. It just had basic calling capability ie. users could communicate via mobile phone and that’s it. Only voice could be transferred. Then came 2G, which offered movement of data too with voice .Which means now we were able to access internet using GPRS and also make calls, send sms etc. 3G would probably give better speeds and facilities like video calling. So who decides what features should be there in each generation. For this purpose there is International Telecommunication Union. 3G or 3rd Generation, is a generation of standards for mobile phones and mobile telecommunications services fulfilling specifications by the International Telecommunication Union. Application services include wide-area wireless voice telephone, mobile Internet access, video calls and mobile TV, all in a mobile environment. Compared to the older 2G standards, a 3G system must allow simultaneous use of speech and data services, and provide peak data rates of at least 200 kbit/s according to the IMT-2000 specification. Recent 3G releases also provide mobile broadband access of several Mbit/s to laptop computers and smart phones. Each generation is characterized by new frequency bands, higher data rates and non backwards compatible transmission technology.

For using 3G technology obviously we need handsets having 3G capability. All phones with 2 cameras are not 3G compatible.But most 3G mobile sets provide 2 cameras to facilitate video calling. As a user I expect huge rise in the download speeds and also reduction in rates. The most used feature of 3G will surely be internet. Now we ll be able to browse at speeds equivalent to broadband in mobile. Also we ll be able to use our mobile as modem and access internet from laptops or desktops at excellent speeds. Remember the slow speeds when we earlier used to connect the mobile to laptop. Well… forget those. But then there are other features of 3G which too will make our life simpler.

• Enhanced audio and video streaming;
• Video-conferencing support;
• Web and WAP browsing at higher speeds;
• IPTV (TV through the Internet) support.

BSNL has already launched its 3G services in India. The internet seeds are amazing and even a bloothooth connection with your pc and help u access broadband speed effortlessly. With new payers coming into this area the rates are sure to come down. Also we can surely expect a lot from DOCOMO which is the next to kick start its 3G services in India.