Chennai, Aug 1 Short for third generation, this technology marks a quantum jump in mobile services.
3G technology helps users quickly access a range of multimedia services, including video telephony, e-commerce and television, on mobile devices like handsets, smart phones and palm-tops.
Networks supporting 3G would have the potential to support data transfer speeds of up to 3 Mbps while the average 2G networks allow for 144 Kbps. Simply put, it means that a song in MP3 format of 3 minutes’ duration would take 15 seconds to download over a 3G network but would take 8 minutes over existing networks.
In the near future, mobility will become a fundamental aspect of many services. We would expect high-speed access to the internet, entertainment, information and electronic commerce services wherever we are — not just at our desktop computers.
While GSM-based cellular operators will use WCDMA technology, CDMA operators will offer 3G services using EVDO. In India, 3G technology can play a dual role.
In urban India, there is a spectrum crunch and 3G can treble voice capacity and can solve the spectrum issue.
For rural India, 3G will be a boon for e-governance and specific applications for farmers, fishermen and small traders.
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