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What is 3G?
3G (or 3-G) is short for third-generation mobile telephone technology. The services associated with 3G provide the ability to transfer both voice data (a telephone call) and non-voice data (such as downloading information, exchanging email, and instant messaging).
In marketing 3G services, video telephony has often been used as the flag-ship killer application for 3G. A certain euphoria was created, which led to huge spectrum-licensing fees in many countries, especially in Europe, where spectrum auctions generated many billions of euros for the respective countries. Since these spectrum licensing fees were collected many years before any income could be expected from 3G business, and since enormous investments are necessary to build the 3G networks, many telecommunication operators got into great financial difficulties, which greatly delayed 3G roll-out in all countries except Japan and Korea, where such spectrum licensing fees were avoided since priority was set on national IT infrastructure development.
The first country which introduced 3G on a large commercial scale was Japan. In 2005 about 40% of subscribers use 3G networks only, and 2G is on the way out in Japan. It is expected that during 2006 the transition from 2G to 3G will be largely completed in Japan, and upgrades to the next 3.5G stage with 3 Mbit/s data rates is underway.
The successful 3G introduction in Japan shows that video telephony is not a killer application for 3G networks after all. Actually, the real-life usage of video telephony on 3G networks is only a very very small fraction of all services. On the other hand, downloading of music finds very strong demand by customers. Music downloads were pioneered by KDDI with the EZchakuuta and the Chaku Uta Full services.
Next generation (3G) wireless networks are not IEEE 802.11 networks. Rather, they are networks dedicated to personal devices, including PDAs and cellular telephones.
According to a whitepaper form
Nokia, 3G applications can be divided
into:
- Wireless Advertising
- Mobile Information
- Business Solutions
- Mobile Transactions
- Mobile Entertainment
- Person-to-Person Communications
- Bearer Entrance and Periodics
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3G Phones
and Devices
There are now several UMTS phones available in
the market. Here are links to other 3G phone
vendors products:
WCDMA / UMTS handsets:
Alcatel
Ericsson Mobile Platforms, Wakaba
LG K8000,
More,
U8100,
U8110,
U8150
Lucent / Option UMTS data card
Lucent / Novatel Wireless GSM/GPRS/UMTS PC
Card
Merlin U530
Motorola A820,
brochure
(464k),
A830,
A835,
A920,
A1000 (pdf),
E1000 (pdf), [more],
V1000 NEW
NEC e606,
e808,
e808Y,
c616/e616,
313,
e228 NEW
Nokia 6650,
6651,
7600,
7700,
6630
Panasonic
Qualcomm TM5200 and
TM6200 Test Phone
Samsung SGH-Z100,
SGH-Z105,
SGH-Z107 NEW
Sanyo V-SA701 news article,
Vodafone V-SA701 page,
V801SA page and
S750
Sharp V801SH,
Vodafone V801SH PDF press release,
V902SH
Siemens U10 (developed jointly with Motorola),
U15
Sony Ericsson Z1010,
V800 NEW
WCDMA / UMTS handsets, operator web sites:
Three handset (Hutchison UK)
Mobilkom Austria
Vodafone Japan
WCDMA (DoCoMo) FOMA handsets:
NEC
Panasonic
Mitsubishi (FOMA link)
Fujitsu (FOMA link)
FOMA Handset links:
DoCoMo FOMA Mobiles
TD-SCDMA Handsets:
TRX Telecom
Prisma Engineering
Datang NEW
CDMA2000 1X EV-DO Handsets:
Samsung
Hyundai Curitel
PD-6000
Qualcomm QTP-5500 Test Phone
GTran Wireless
Sierra Wireless / Airprime
GSM EDGE Handsets:
SonyEricsson PC Card GC75,
GC83 and GC85,
Z500 NEW
Nokia 6200,
6220,
6230,
6810,
6820,
3200,
5140,
7200,
9500
Motorola T725
3G Concept phone links:
3G-Generation site
European Phone site
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