A Generation Too Late For 3G!

Are we in the race anymore or have we fallen behind? That’s the question Indian subscribers will be asking as the day approaches for the quite essential 3G services being bid for. Of course its another matter all together when it would be implemented and services will be made affordable to the end consumer.

If this is the case with Indian government agencies moving so slowly on the much awaited 3G services, I shudder to think what should happen when its time for 4G?! The fact that 4G is being made ready to deployed in the more developed economics.

It is being currently tested out in a few towns in UK and Ireland telecom authorities have already given the go ahead for 4G to be implemented commercially.The only hope is that time around the King of Indian telecom Mr. Raja carries out the 3G auction without much delay and the spectrum is allotted to the telecom companies. But in my personal opinion it’ll be good to see smaller and new telecom companies being offered the chance to provide better service keeping the end customer in mind.

I am all for it. How about you?

King September 25, 2010 at 10:42 pm

@Gaurab
3g wont have much scope in india, as it may not cover whole in india in next 2 years; and 4g will live after 2 years; then ppl will go for 4g and 3g will be dust bean,

cdma technology ends here with the launch of 3g, as there is no scope to develop cdma evdo, lots of issue in connectivity which are currently reliance, tata and mts operator, now reliance got a 3g broadband licence and with better quality other evdo operator diffcult to survie.

Max April 11, 2010 at 7:23 pm

@Gaurab
our country is suffering from tis type delays rite from independence, i dont blame only politicians b’cos even we are responsible for tis situation. evrybody think abt himself,his family & his financial status but nobody is worried abt country. majority of ppl dont even vote ter by showing tat we have left our country to some gundas who r jus filling ter pockets doing crimes. these ppl have grown to tis stage cos we have left them to grow…

Gaurab April 10, 2010 at 2:35 pm

I worked in 4G technology and we have almost finished the 4G algorithm & coding part. Research part completed. Last minute tests are going on. Some client-specific standardization may be implemented.
I always wanted to see use of latest technologies in India; but here 3G is yet to be auctioned and we are going to implement 4G (LTE) in other countries within next few months. So I would like to resonate the author that we are really late for 3G.

Prasath J April 10, 2010 at 12:34 am

It is very early to conclude, we are a generation late for 3G, just because 3G auction has begun… Because there is still chance for delay in 3G implementation and we can be late by 2 generation or more, especially with R@ja in this chair…

Arjun Aggarwal April 9, 2010 at 12:47 pm

According to the ITU-T any technology that gives you a speed of 2 Mbps in mobile mode is 3G and a technology which gives a speed of 100 Mbps in the mobile mode is 4G.

Jimmy April 9, 2010 at 12:40 pm

@Avishek
Hey thanks Avishek, I am sure you would have your opinion to share. This is of course and opinion on the way telecom regulatory works in India.

pammu April 9, 2010 at 11:04 am

pray, this auction conclude without any major controversy and long court cases…aur rahi service quality ki baat, to hum log habitual hain gatiya quality ki service lene ke. bad roads, no electricity, pathetic health service etc..etc.. but still happy in our cozy den.

rajiev April 9, 2010 at 8:15 am

3g to door ki baat hai edge hi poori aur acchi tarah se kar de to speed shayad behatar rahe, hume to abhi speed acchi nahi milti hai

Idrees April 9, 2010 at 8:05 am

TTSL was advocating the fact of moving directly towards the 4G technology…they also said wth only 3-4 slots available the service would turn out to be much expensive…

Vinayak Pai April 9, 2010 at 7:12 am

My expectation from 3G is restricted to DECONGESTION of EXISTING 2G networks

kumar April 9, 2010 at 1:37 am

Few days ago i read in Deccan chornicle pager that, auction it self may go for 3-6 months. Some ****** from telecom department giving example of new zealand… he says auction took place for 1 and half year. I am not seeing 3G in india for atlease 1 more year.

linkesh April 9, 2010 at 1:20 am

4G/LTE is not yet a matured technology .. the 3GPP specifications are still in the draft mode.
4G .. LTE to be precise it’s not only abt bandwidth .. there are lot of changes w.r.t Mobility Management .. In the backbone it’s all end-to-end IP traffic .. that means no support for circuit switched voice calls. It’s not so easy to leapfrog dear.

Everyone is going ga-ga abt bandwidth w.r.t 3G data rate. I agree air interface supports it .. do we have backbone to provide such kind of QoS ???? at present so called best wireless service Tata Photon plus s**ks big time … in peak hours u won’t even get 10 Kbps datarate !

Max April 9, 2010 at 12:19 am

friends tmrw morning (9th april)at 9am bidding process for 3G licence is going to start..

Max April 9, 2010 at 12:00 am

@vinay
3G offers max speed of 7.2mbps( provided ter is enough spectrum) & 4G offers speed upto 32mbps..

vinay April 8, 2010 at 11:54 pm

still crazy ppl vl go for 3g handsets.
btw, whats the difference between 3g n 4g technology. for a layman’s benefit? plz…

Tarun PK April 8, 2010 at 11:53 pm

Sure dude we will look into it thx for the heads up !

Avishek April 8, 2010 at 11:50 pm

This words r good for the comment section or as a comment…but it not has anything special or new to get a chance as a main page article in TT….Mods-give everybody a fair chance & try to maintain the quality of tt intact……give eyes on quality article not in quantity….I have not any intention to disobey the writer…just my personal thought for the betterment of TT…

Avi H April 8, 2010 at 11:45 pm