3G is soooooo nice

[red-beard]

I guess I'm going to have to switch to AT&T. Everytime I'm in Mexico, it is soo nice to have the 3G working.

[m21sniper]

OK, i'll bite. What is 3G?

[911Rob]

newest iPhone ..... triple speed.

[island911]

Originally Posted by m21sniper

OK, i'll bite. What is 3G?

It's just another cell standard, which has been around a while. iphone Finally brought their hardware up to this standard.

[porsche4life]

Ya they did... Like 2yrs ago...

[Rick Lee]

Got an iPhone for my wife for Xmas. Really hope it works well around here. My Blackberry is AT&T and has much better coverage than my Verizon cell phones.

[Schumi]

Pretty sure I've ha AT&T's 3G for about 2 years now.

But since I use my cell phone for nothing but making phone calls an the occasional text message... I have no idea what it does different than non-3G.

[island911]

Likely ... Verizon had it starting in 2003.

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International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 (IMT-2000), better known as 3G or 3rd Generation, is a family of standards for mobile telecommunications defined by the International Telecommunication Union,[1] which includes GSM EDGE, UMTS, and CDMA2000 as well as DECT and WiMAX. Services include wide-area wireless voice telephone, video calls, and wireless data, all in a mobile environment. Compared to 2G and 2.5G services, 3G allows simultaneous use of speech and data services and higher data rates (up to 14.0 Mbit/s on the downlink and 5.8 Mbit/s on the uplink with HSPA+). Thus, 3G networks enable network operators to offer users a wider range of more advanced services while achieving greater network capacity through improved spectral efficiency.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) defined the third generation (3G) of mobile telephony standards – IMT-2000 – to facilitate growth, increase bandwidth, and support more diverse applications. For example, GSM (the current most popular cellular phone standard) could deliver not only voice, but also circuit-switched data at download rates up to 14.4 kbps. But to support mobile multimedia applications, 3G had to deliver packet-switched data with better spectral efficiency, at far greater bandwidths.[

[jyl]

Very few people had 3G phones on VZ back in 2003. It was more of a datacard thing, and was called EVDO, I remember how cool it was to get 500 Kbps wirelessly, before the datacard only got 90 Kbps. Now my VZ datacard usually gets 1.2 Mbps - and it feels slow.

[azasadny]

"3G" stands for "going, going, gone...". In my area, it's really poor and unreliable...

[red-beard]

I use a Treo Pro on T-mobile. T-mobile uses a different set of radio frequencies, so most 3G GSM phones are not compatible. Whenever we're in Mexico, I roam on TELCEL which is 3G. I'm getting about 400-500 kbps here, which is slow compared to AT&T, but fast compared to EDGE.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by island911

iphone Finally brought their hardware up to this standard.

Apple were smart enough not to gamble the iphone launch on the, at the time, unclear conclusion of the Qualcomm/Broadcom patent infringement flap.

Would have been a spectacular launch if 1 million iPhones were embargoed which was a very likely scenario if the 1st gen shipped with 3g.

[scottmandue]

You get cell signal in Mexico?

When I visted it was no bueno.

[speeder]

Sprint now has 4G. 3G is old hat. Na na na na na.....

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by scottmandue

You get cell signal in Mexico?

When I visted it was no bueno.

Actually, the cell service here is better than the landlines. Think private sector vs. public sector. Carlos Slim is a rich man because Telmex (landlines) is so bad.

[911Rob]

no cell service. isnt that like a hidden blessing?