A decade, waiting for 3G !

Finally 3G is actually hitting the streets of India. Slowly,but for sure. Now, if you are mistaken 3G for a mobile technology that will revolutionize the overall mobile experiance then I ‘m sorry for you,my friend. Why? The reasons are several.

Lets begin with “3G” itself. First of all , it’s not a technology.It’s a generation of standards for mobile phones and mobile telecommunication services. According to 3G as a “standard” it must fulfill the International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 (IMT-2000) specifications by theInternational Telecommunication Union. Application services include wide-area wireless voice telephone, mobile Internet access, video calls and mobile TV, all in a mobile environment. To meet the IMT-2000 standards, a system is required to provide peak data rates of at least 200 kbit/s. Read More…