What is 3G service

[Elkanah]

hie friends,

We have frequently heard about the term - 3G. Also read several times many companies launching 3G service, and get excited if you are using the product of that particular company. But what actually does 3G service mean ?
any ideas......

[Trio]

3G service, also known as third generation service is a high-speed access to data and voice services, made possible by the use of a 3G network. A 3G network is a high-speed mobile broadband network, offering data transfers of atleast 144 Kbps.

[Techguru01]

3G is the third generation of telecommunication hardware standards and general technology for mobile networking, superseding 2.5G which is based on ITU (International Telecommunication Union) family of standards under the IMT-2000.

Services -
3G networks offers a wider range of advanced services to users while achieving greater network capacity through improved spectral efficiency. The 3G services include - wide-area wireless voice telephone, video calls, and broadband wireless data, all in a mobile environment. Additional features also include HSPA data transmission capabilities able to deliver data rates up to 14.4 Mbit/s on the downlink and 5.8 Mbit/s on the uplink.

Unlike IEEE 802.11 networks, which are commonly called Wi-Fi or WLAN networks, 3G networks are wide-area cellular telephone networks that evolved to incorporate high-speed Internet access and video telephony. IEEE 802.11 networks are short range, high-bandwidth networks primarily developed for data.

[johnson22]

A dial-up Internet connection typically offers speeds of about 56 Kbps (which is very slow when you are downloading data over the Internet) whereas 3G networks can offer speeds of 3.1 megabits per second (Mbps) or more which is much more than the speeds offered by cable modems.