THE LATEST buzzword in the mobile industry is `3G'.

Every mobile service provider is eager to exploit the situation to develop his network capability to incorporate lot of value added services and more specifically to extend Wireless Broad band Access (WBA) to his subscriber base in order to increase his revenue stream.

3G denotes third generation technology used in context with mobile phone.

3G is a concept which leads to realization of the convergence of the top four major technologies, namely, communication (of voice and data), broadcasting (of video clips), telecasting (of music), internet access (data transmission including charts and pictures) at a very high speed.

The service associated with 3G provides ability to transfer simultaneously both `voice-data' (telephone call) and `non-voice data' (downloading information, e-mail and the like) using Internet Protocol (IP) over packet-switching mode.

But the I suppose you will call me ‘Hey mate, where are you?’; because migration to 3G network in India is late, as already over 70 countries have rolled out 3G, Japan being the first country to introduce 3G in 2002.

News Source: ‘The Hindu’