Usually used in reference to the next generation digital mobile network.
The newest generation of mobile communications, it is based on the GSM core. This advance allows greater bandwidth, opening the way to increased data-over-wireless solutions such as smart phones. Not expected to be fully operational until 2002.
3G is the term given to the range of infrastructure and handsets developed to provide much enhanced data communication services within the cellular networks. Third generation, or 3G as it is widely known, mobile licenses were awarded to Network Operators in April 2000. This network means that advanced mobile phones can take advantage of technology such as full high-speed net surfing, and video messaging.
Third Generation or 3G is the wireless communications involving internet access and data delivery to mobile phones with audio, moving colour images and sophisticated interent services.
(3G) - a term applied to the next generation of mobile telephony which will offer much higher bandwidth and allow video, gaming and other multimedia applications. Also known as UMTS. The first two generations of mobile telephony were Analogue and GSM.
The next generation in wireless producing a convergence of standards and services.
A new standard that promises to offer increased capacity and high-speed data applications up to 2 megabits. It will also integrate pico-, micro- and macro- cellular technology and allow global roaming. (Also called "3G.")
The 3rd Generation (3G) mobile devices and services will transform wireless communications into on-line, real-time transfer of information, regardless of time and place. You will be able to send electronic postcards with images, and you can even have a live videoconference using your 3G mobile communication device.
A new standard that promises to offer increased capacity and high-speed data applications up to 2 megabits. It also will integrate pico-, micro-, and macrocellular technology, and could allow for global roaming.
The broadband revolution is already making its mark on the wired world, now its time for wireless to follow suit. Third-generation or3G technology promises much faster transmission speeds than current wireless networks-up to two megabytes per second. What does this mean for the wireless world? Well, these faster connections will allow cell phones and PDAs (personal digital assistants like the Palm Pilot) to access multimedia content or even allow videoconferencing from wireless devices developed for 3G. This goes beyond the text access to e-mail and news currently offered through these devices and will open up rich web content to more non-PC devices. And the standard calls for go-anywhere, system-independent connections.
Revamped broadband digital networks expected in the early 2000s, that will be able to handle broadband data communications, with transmission rates much higher than the current average of 10 Kbs per second.
A new wireless standard promising increased capacity and high-speed data applications up to two megabits. Third generation wireless employ wideband frequency carriers and a CDMA air interface. Networks must be able to transmit wireless data at 144 kilobits per second at mobile user speeds. Implemented in Europe as UMTS and CDMA2000 in North America, its goals are high-quality multimedia and advanced global roaming (in house, cellular, satellite, etc.).