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Gotten used to your current cell phone? 3 G or 3 generation mobile phone network is here after many false starts. Operators in Europe have bidded and paid milions or is it billions for the right to use the frequency spectrum? 3 G technology has greater bandwith than existing cell phone technology. It makes cell phone users dream come true. With greater capacity and bandwith your phone calls can be cheaper too. 3 G services include video conferencing, live tv programmes, streaming video clips such as football highlights and music videos, and broadband internet surfing.
In the years since 3G technology was hyped, a new wireless networking technology Wifi and WiMax has come into play and will offer competition to 3G services. 3G services started in Japan and is now sprouting everywhere from Asia to Europe to North America.
The speed for current GPRS technology is 171 kilobits per second while 3 G technology can hit up to a maximum of 2 Megabits per second. 3G speed is 2 megabits per second when stationary and slows down to 384 kilobits per second at pedestrian movement. It slows down further at 144 kilobits per second when one is travelling in a vehicle.
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