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What is Wrong with 3G?

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Thu, 08/11/2011 - 15:03

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wandalex

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What is Wrong with 3G?

Wasn’t 3G not supposed to be about voice and SMS but whizzy new services: video calling, football highlights, interactive games. If 3G is as good as the marketing hype then why do we need 3.5G at all?

The first thing that turned out to be more hype than performance from 3G was the data rate. Coverage of 3G networks is still patchy – meaning some of the time data users are back. on GPRS rates. READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE HERE: http://trends-in-telecoms.blogspot.com/2011/04/what-is-wrong-with-3g_07....

Fri, 12/09/2011 - 04:09

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thyraell

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3.5 G is for data, same as

3.5 G is for data, same as comparison between GSM(2G) andd GPRS( 2.5G)

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Thu, 01/05/2012 - 08:49

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Manchitas

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What is Wrong with 3G?

Hello,

Indeed you pointed out some limiting factors about 3G but the most important thing in this case is the network architecture. It is reasonable easy to improve 3G radio performance, in fact it has already been improved with MIMO and channel aggregation (I think that in 3GPP Realeases 7 and 8).

The problem is that no matter how much transmission capacity you have if your network architecture is not able to support advanced services. No matter what they said, 3G is not made for VoIP, video calling or interactive games for all that services wait to LTE (new network architecture).

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Wed, 01/11/2012 - 00:28

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wlay

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Even tho, 3G is not really

Even tho, 3G is not really for all those things as Manchitas said, it can be used for that too. How good it will be depends of your network. If you have enough 3G sites, 2nd carriers on them, 45s inside them, it will work pretty good. But as Manchitas said, if you wanna see the real thing, you gotta wait for LTE. Been testing it and it works great.