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(1G) Analog: Analog phones helped to make voice calls inside one's country
without roaming facilities.
(2G) Digital mobile phone systems added fax, data and messaging capabilities
as well as voice telephone service in many countries offering worldwide roaming.
(3G) Multimedia services add high speed data transfer to mobile devices,
allowing new video, audio and other applications (including Internet services)
through mobile phones.
1. With 3G, the information is split into
separate but related packets before being
transmitted and reassembled at the receiving end.
Packet switched data formats are much more
common than their circuit switched counterparts.
Spread spectrum
The communication channel from the base station to the mobile device is
called the downlink, and the communication from the mobile device back to
dedicating two separate frequency bands: one band for the uplink and one
FDD. The two bands are separated by a "guard band" which provides
receive streams.
Data transmission is Symmetric if the data in the downlink and the data
in the uplink is transmitted at the same data rate. This will probably be the
case for voice transmission - the same amount of data is sent both ways).
Asymmetric applications, e.g., the internet- 384kbps for the downlink, and 64kbps for the uplink
We have considered how a mobile phone can send and receive calls at
the same time (via an uplink and a downlink). Now we will examine how many
users can be multiplexed into the same channel (i.e., share the channel)
path connecting the users at the two ends of the line, and that path stays open
until the conversation ends. This Kind of connection is called circuit switching.
Most modern networking technology is radically different from this traditional model
because it uses packet data.
Packet data was originally developed as the technology behind the Internet
Macro Cells, Micro Cells, and Pico Cells
The 3G network might be divided up in hierarchical fashion:
smaller regions (shorter ranges) allow higher user density and faster
transmission rates. This is why they are called "hot spots".
TDD mode does not allow long range transmission (the delays
incurred would cause interference between the uplink and the downlink).
For this reason, TDD mode can only be used in environments where
the propagation delay is small (Pico cells).
These are maximum rates and possible speed will fall as more people
download data in any particular cell. It is possible that at peak times
phone users will be lucky to do better than the 56kbps possible over a
fixed phone.
Using packets of information to carry voice and data also means that
your phone is effectively always connected to the network.
This will mean a huge change in the way that you pay for your phone.
Mobile operators will have to stop charging on the basis of talk time and
move to a model based on the packets you download or a single charge
per month covering anything and everything you do.
The day of 3G may be dawning but it will be a long time before the sun
sets on our existing mobile phones .