Reliance To Offer 3g Services Soon...

[Arun 795]

Reliance to offer 3G services

Business Standard / Ahmedabad December 02, 2005

Reliance Infocomm to migrate into 3G (third generation) very soon, if demand rises.

"Reliance Infocomm is ready with the platform providing 3G in mobile phone which will give all facilities available on broadband connections," claimed B M Jain, chief technical officer, Reliance Infocomm.

It will mainly focus on high speed data connectivity of around two mbps in mobile phone including video conference, video streaming, gaming applications and others.

"Now company has a platform of network bandwidth capacity in terabytes (a thousand of gigabytes)," claimed Jain.For video games, a server would be created in which thousands of games would be available.

"If content developing company offers the service, one can play games with some one who is on-line on phone," said Jain.

Jain said that many services which are currently available like video streaming are very time consuming. "Once 3G services are started, all data based services would open very fast," he said.

He added that services like banking operations and others will be just click and downloaded.

Right now 3G services is a year away as customer has not demanded yet."In the initial stage we would start it in metros than mega cities and than across the country as it does not fulfil the requirement of customers in towns and villages," claimed Jain.

Currently in India, many mobile operators were offering 3G enabled services but it consumes time. "Operators are working on 2.5G technology and they will have to migrate to 3G as per to Universal Mobile Telecom Service (UMTS) standard, which was created in 2000," explained Jain.

Once operators migrated to 3G, there will be an inter operator compatibility. Not only in India but even in international market, lobbies of both GSM and CDMA are making their own applications and some agree and some disagree to migrate to standard norms of UMTS.

However, for GSM operators migration to 3G would be on large scale technology changes. "GSM operators are offering these services on the basis of Global Package Radio Service (GPRS) and to offer high speed data connectivity in GPRS, they might require to high investment in technology. While CDMA is data enabled technology which needs minor changes to start providing high speed connectivity," said Jain.

According to Jain, many operators in different countries claim that they are using 4G technology but it is conceptual.

"Developed countries like USA and Japan are using 3G and they may migrate to 4G in near future," said Jain.

[linuxguy 0]

aha...so they are starting to rip off the metros before shifting to other cities... :| AFAIK, 3G technologies require a decent network, which atm nobody is providing!

[abhay 0]

dont worry linuxguy they stay in some diffrent TIME-ZONE

soon 4 them is light years 4 us

[anujit 0]

I think its got more to do with the Govt than RIM's eagerness to begin EVDO services.

Of course given the price of CDMA services (live TV and the like) I cant imagine that would be at all worth the price for consumers.

[city02 63]

dont worry linuxguy they stay in some diffrent TIME-ZONE

soon 4 them is light years 4 us 

49034[/snapback]

Light years is a measure of distance NOT TIME!

[abhay 0]

bawanoo ko samjho