3G Mobile Phones – High speed data transmission
3G or 3rd generation is a standard for mobile telecommunications defined by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) which has a mixture of GSM, EDGE, UMTS and CDMA 2000 along with high speed technologies of DECT and WiMAX. The services provided as part of the 3G connection are of voice calls, video calls and wireless data transmission all within a mobile framework. Compared to the previous technologies of 2G and 2.5G which didn't allow simultaneous usage of data and voice services, 3G services allow both of them to be used at the very same time. Data transmission rates have also gone up with downlink speeds of 14.0 Mbits/second and uplink speeds of 5.8 Mbits/second with HSPA+. This type of technology uses the spectrum band carefully and efficiently as more type of services are being used at the very same time.
As per ITU, 3G defines the growth, increased bandwidth and supports more diverse applications as the suitable example of the development that has taken place in the mobile phone technologies over a period of time. Five radio frequencies define the 3G network with the first being EDGE, CDMA 2000, UMTS, DECT and Wi-Max. They are ranked in order of data transmission speeds. EDGE albeit part of the 3G technology is considered as a separate technology by various GSM/UMTS phone manufacturers. As per December 2007 records, 190 3G network providers existed in 40 countries and 154 HSDPA networks operated in 71 countries with a customer base of about 200 million and more. Despite the huge network operator count and large number of subscribers, it is a meager 6.7% of the total population of mobile phone users.
3G networking offers a large number of applications mainly due to increased high speed data connectivity. This increased data rates allows 2MBPS of bandwidth availabilities thereby allowing many usages over voice calls, data transmission and video calls at the very same time. Some of the arenas where 3G networking has proved to be a boon are, mobile television : TV channels can be viewed on the phone itself by using the 3G network connection. This also requires a tie up with the network provider who in turn would provide the feed for the video broadcast. Video conferencing can be done thereby making a combination of data transmission and video calling using the large 2mbps of bandwidth. One highly attractive feature of usage of 3G has been the location based services which enable the user to get a live road traffic view, weather updates and tracking the route of a certain vehicle. Network provider can make money through a video on demand service where the user has to get this service enabled as the network provider needs to form alliance with the content provider to provide the specific content. It can be easily called as the next step forward from other content providing services such as ringtones, wallpapers, themes etc.
I have been using my Sony Ericsson Satio for using various services such as watching Youtube videos, surfing the web in superbly fast speeds and also use its secondary camera for video conferencing with my family as I reside away from them due to work. I would have otherwise had to use the computer based video calling but now I can do that whenever and wherever I want just by using my 3G mobile phones.
As per ITU, 3G defines the growth, increased bandwidth and supports more diverse applications as the suitable example of the development that has taken place in the mobile phone technologies over a period of time. Five radio frequencies define the 3G network with the first being EDGE, CDMA 2000, UMTS, DECT and Wi-Max. They are ranked in order of data transmission speeds. EDGE albeit part of the 3G technology is considered as a separate technology by various GSM/UMTS phone manufacturers. As per December 2007 records, 190 3G network providers existed in 40 countries and 154 HSDPA networks operated in 71 countries with a customer base of about 200 million and more. Despite the huge network operator count and large number of subscribers, it is a meager 6.7% of the total population of mobile phone users.
3G networking offers a large number of applications mainly due to increased high speed data connectivity. This increased data rates allows 2MBPS of bandwidth availabilities thereby allowing many usages over voice calls, data transmission and video calls at the very same time. Some of the arenas where 3G networking has proved to be a boon are, mobile television : TV channels can be viewed on the phone itself by using the 3G network connection. This also requires a tie up with the network provider who in turn would provide the feed for the video broadcast. Video conferencing can be done thereby making a combination of data transmission and video calling using the large 2mbps of bandwidth. One highly attractive feature of usage of 3G has been the location based services which enable the user to get a live road traffic view, weather updates and tracking the route of a certain vehicle. Network provider can make money through a video on demand service where the user has to get this service enabled as the network provider needs to form alliance with the content provider to provide the specific content. It can be easily called as the next step forward from other content providing services such as ringtones, wallpapers, themes etc.
I have been using my Sony Ericsson Satio for using various services such as watching Youtube videos, surfing the web in superbly fast speeds and also use its secondary camera for video conferencing with my family as I reside away from them due to work. I would have otherwise had to use the computer based video calling but now I can do that whenever and wherever I want just by using my 3G mobile phones.