Introduction

Imagine a situation where you will make an important Sales Presentation. You realize that you’ve brought the wrong presentation slides and you call your colleagues. She immediately emails the file to your 3G terminal and you transfer it to your laptop. Another scenario is having video-conferencing and sending character-based messages simultaneously with your clients. With 3G, the possibility for many wireless applications. For example, imagine calling a map on your car, do video conferencing via mobile phones, checking e-mail, and web browsing – without wires.

Defined 3G

3G stands for third generation wireless communications technology and industry direction is to increase the speed of 9.5K to 2M bit / sec. According 3gnewsroom.com, the device will fall into four categories. The first category includes the basic 3G phones will be used mainly for talking and will store all their information on the network. The second category will support video streaming, and will provide users with news and web content. More sophisticated model for information center that allows users to download the information from the Internet and storing data on the device.

A recent initiative by four leading handset manufacturer, Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia and Siemens-plus company’s message CMG, Comverse and Logica is driven by the launch of 3G. The company hopes to create awareness and encourage the development of multimedia messaging services (MMS) to create audio, video, photos and other images to be accessed by the handset.

3G and Wireless Mobile Market Growth

Wireless mobile market set to explode and this will provide new graduates with good employment opportunities. According to Will Daugherty Growth of Wireless Mobile in Business 2.0, there will be three waves of mobile data services. The first wave is related to wireless access to existing information and data applications. The second wave now take advantage of wireless-specific functionality. The third wave will bring rich graphics, video, real-time multiplayer games.

Don Tapscott has been quoted “Mobile commerce is the next stage of e-commerce, where we have the integration of the physical world with the digital world … What we” re talking here is the beginning of widespread computing and everywhere where billions and billions of inert objects become Internet appliances – enabling the sharing of knowledge and delivery of a new array of services. ”

Need more convincing and statistics?

According to the findings of the Wireless Portal: Wireless User Information Gateway, at the end of the year 2006 will not be close to 1 billion wireless portal users worldwide. Most of these users will be wireless voice users, WAP users, 2.5G and 3G subscribers, and users of other wireless devices such as PDAs using. Multi-modal users worldwide will stand nearly 282 million in 2006.