Mobile phone has become a necessity in everyone's life today. No doubt, we all know that a mobile phone cannot work without a sim card which is provided by a mobile service provider. Mobile Service Providers in India have been spending crores of rupees from last many years to purchase the 3G wireless spectrum. After spending so much money, still we dont have 3G network in India & do you think that the 3G service will come at a budget cost? Few companies like Tata DoCoMo, Airtel & Vodafone have announced that they will be starting the service soon. Most people are interested in possessing a dual or even a tripple sim mobile phone, which is going to affect the mobile network.
I think mobile Service Providers should concentrate more on providing good services like, network availability, call connectivity & sms deliveries on time. Life has become shorter like twitter where communication should be short & sweet. In such busy life, who has time to use 3G services, which will have features like watching television on mobile, video calling etc. The tragic part is, most of the mobile phone manufacturers must have sold thousands of 3G enabled mobile phones in India but we still do not have 3G service in the country. Countries like USA, Europe etc. are already enjoying 3G services since long time and now working on the 4G technology.
Telecom Minister has announced, Mobile Number Portability will be started from 1st Nov. in Haryana. So, metro city mobile users keep your fingers crossed.
Thanks & Regards.
6 comments:
Yes we need 3G, but its a better investment if we skip 3G and implement the "near-4G" services that are being rolled out in USA, Europe and Australia (The 4G standard has not been standardised yet).
Having a good cell coverage and uptime is not as easy as it sounds. The challenges faced are three:
1. India is a large country in area
2. Lots of people own a cell phone, so the cell owning population is high
3. Usage is higher than in other countries.
Planning effective cell management is thus a challenge in India and extensive surveys must be carried out to determine the most densely populated regions and fragment those into micro cells with directional antennas. This is an ongoing process and requires extensive surveying, geo-mapping and investment in towers at optimum locations (eg setting up a tower in a crowded city is not easy -- legal, financial, and a lot of cabling required).
3G networks are, of course, more reliable than 2G -- 3G builds on CDMA systems, and both data and voice are integrated as a single unit.
Cell portability is a welcome addition and I hope that national roaming charges are also removed to better integrate India.
The question to moot is whether 3G can actually deliver the full 2 mbps in India, given the poor connectivity to the backbone
Thanks a lot Nicholas for all this precious info.
Any new technology will certainly time to penetrate. But over all its really good.
Any new technology will certainly time to penetrate. But over all its really good.
I completely agree with you Sai, new technology will take time to implement. But Govt. of India has wasted so much time to implement this technology in the country.
I have a fairly different view on the whole subject. We need 3G as well as 4G too. People have no patience in the current generation and everything has to happen on the fly. Communication media is an important aspect of every persons life and it is detachable. Now it is upto an individuals choice to use all that streaming on portable mobile device or not. Having options is always good is my opinion.
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