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3G Cellphones
April 7, 2008
3G is short for third-generation technology. It is mostly used in the context of cell phones. 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 (which means you can talk on your cell phone and at the same time see the other person you are talking with live) has often been used as the main 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. These difficulties greatly delayed 3G roll-out in all countries except Japan and South Korea, where such spectrum licensing fees were avoided since priority was set on national IT infrastructure development.
Components of a Cellphone System
3G
3G is an short-term for 3rd-generation. Analog cellular phones were entitled the first generation.
3G is improperly defined, but 3G enabled phones have a High speed datas and they also make streaming videos possible.
There are several different 3G technology standards. The most prevalent is UMTS, that is based on WCDMA. (WCDMA and UMTS are often used interchangeably.)
Alphanumeric Display
A display that is capable of displaying letters and numbers, but not graphics.
Bluetooth
Bluetooth is a wireless personal area network (PAN) specification which connects phones, computers, appliances, etc. among each other over short distances without the use of wires by using low power radio frequencies.
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