Third Generation

The Third Generation Systems will provide both speech and data at the very high speed. Though the second generation system provide with data transmission, the data rate offered is quite low and is unsuitable for today's needs. The third generation systems promise to integrate all kind of services like speech, data, audio, video, facsimile etc. through the mobile handsets. These systems will provide much better service quality than the second generation systems and will provide much smaller call set up delay. They will be suitable both for bursty and streamed data and will give much better utilization of channels. The users will be billed based on the utilization of channel rather than the time of call. This is very important for today's service demands like Internet and mail services. Therefore the goal of the third generation cellular systems is to provide better service quality at low cost, smaller call set up time, user friendly billing and access to a wide variety of services through wireless.