India moving to 3G

Believe it or not,India is moving to 3G which will lease the new generation of digital life very soon.In Today's lifestyle, connectivity is one of the utmost important things.Right now India is working with GPRS and EDGE connectivity in terms of mobile broadband.

GPRS is a 2nd generation technologies and suffer largely from limited data transfer speeds. EDGE counts in as a 2.5G technology and so far this service is available in select major cities only. With the 3G spectrum being allocated and mobile operators bringing 3G services in early 2009, thing are set to change for the future. MTNL has already rolled out its 3G service, currently free for its users for a couple of months. Once the competition starts offering 3G services after the spectrum allocation in February 09, MTNL would also start charging for its services. Hopefully, the service charges for 3G would not be kept on an idiotically higher side.

As far as 3G services are concerned, a consumer who just uses the mobile for calling and SMS sending on a budget phone would not be the one getting affected by the service. On the other hand, an average consumer who knows how to use the browser on his mobile to access WAP content, 3G would open doors to new dimensions. Not only would the website rendering time decrease, application, audio and video downloads would be done in a blink. One touch uploading of files directly from phones to sharing sites such as OVI, Flickr and Youtube would take mere minutes to complete. For power users, 3G would be a god sentgift as a 3G network is capable of providing speeds upto 40 times faster than the current 2G network.

Looking at the Impact that this revolution in mobile broadband would make in 2009 – Once implemented properly and made available to the public at large, more and more people would be able to download large files on their phones, check email instantly, watch live streaming videos as well as make video calls right from the phone itself. Professionals would not have to travel from one place to another for meetings, it would be possible to do that from the phone itself. People would be able to share multimedia content at ease. Mobile blogging would get a serious boost up due to increased upload speeds with more and more people using their phone's to submit content online directly.

WiMax on the other hand is the technology that would change the way broadband is accessed on the desktop and laptops. No longer would one need to connect Ethernet wires for accessing Internet. Everything would become wireless and that too spread across a wider coverage area. Simply put, WiMax is WiFi put on adrenaline. It is capable of shared data rates upto 70Mb/s. Once implemented, it would be able to support over a thousand times at 1Mb/s DSL level connectivity leading to easy creation of Wide Area Networks. Offices would not need to have cables put down here and there as they can work on a single WiMax connection. Gamers and Home users would be able to share data and play games with each other without any eminent lags or disconnections.

The biggest Impact that we would get to see is the increase in the number of broadband users across India. With connectivity reaching new standards more and more device manufacturers would launch budget products for consumers and this would further help in increasing the Internet user base in India.