Posts Tagged ‘3G’

4 G Wireless Service by Time Warner, Comcast Corp

Saturday, May 8th, 2010

4G wireless broadband service will be provided by Comcast Corp and Time Warner Cable. Sprint Nextel is vague about the offers and plans provided by them. The cable firms will roll out the fourth generation wireless technology along with their other products.

Spokesman for the Time Warner Matt said, “The service will be available through the receivers that would attach to computers’ USB ports.” The company will provide 4G wireless along with its cable television, digital phone services and road runner internet acess.

Same as sprint, Time Warner and Comcast are the major investors in Clearwire Corp which will be rolling out 4G to the country. 4G technology or WiMax will be ten times faster than the current 3G networks. Sprint, Time Warner and Comcast will sell out the devices 3G and 4G to customers where Wimax signal doesn’t reach

Growth of Communication and India

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

The number of internet users in India will boost up by 200 million customers with low price computers, notebooks and cheaper broadband connectivity, while the countries wireless service WIMAX will reach 19 million by the end of the year 2012. According to a recent study, the customers of WIMAX will be getting increased by 130% every year. Currently most of the customers are using data cards, fixed lines and mobiles to access the high speed broadband internet.

But there are many problems like interruption of connection, ADSL line faults and Ethernet error, these days new technologies are put into action which has high speed and connectivity to overcome the problems caused by the outdated technologies. In the field of Information and Communication, there has been a rapid change in two aspects they are voice side and data or broadband.  There was a rapid growth in these aspects in the last two year. Voices have been shown tremendous growth in the field of mobile and the broadband has also shown greater improvements in its speed.

Indian communication market can be divided largely into three categories rural, urban and semi-urban. WIMAX and 3G will be soon gaining the market in the urban area. But these will become a rub-off effect on semi-urban areas. 3G will cause a tremendous growth in India leading to a development in technological side as well as on the communication.

Vodafone offers Mobile broadband to its UK customers

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

More than 80% of the Britons use Vodafone 3G net networks as it has superior coverage in most of the places, except in the remote areas of Wales and Scotland.
Customers of UK want all the benefits while they are on the move, Vodafone service of UK has come up with a new deal for their customers which includes a 30 day mobile broad band package with free modem and 3GB of data downloads which is a great deal.

Also Vodafone has come up with another plan called as Laptop bundle. You have to pay £59 on pay monthly price plans from £30 for the Compaq Presario CQ61 laptop. Moreover this bundle includes a USB modem stick and 3GB data to browse the net on the move.

Vodafone has now started to capture the minds of the people of United Kingdom.

Indian Government raises Rs.45, 000 crore through 3G auction

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

The centre has targeted to spindle Rs.45,000 crore through the 3 G spectrum auctions. According to Citigroup analysts the 3G spectrum could beat the “rational levels”. Telcos will offer high speed data services with 3 G licenses. After nine days of bidding, the amount of auction climbed up to 81.5% (i.e.) to Rs.6, 354 from the base price.

Some of the states in the country received negative response during 3G auction, while this accounted for 50% throughout this nation. More than 15 states showed negative response over the 3G, they include Jammu and Kashmir, Orissa, Himachal Pradesh and all seven north eastern states. Even after nine days of bidding, these places have not even witnessed 1% increase in auction, also states like West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh showed negative results during bidding.

3G auctions in Delhi closed with Rs.733.71 crore which is 129.3% higher than the base price, Tamil Nadu at 101.1%, Mumbai with 108.7%, Kerala at 87.6% and Gujarat at 75.2%

TRAI (Telecommunication Authority of India) has given some recommendations for the 3G airwaves same as that of 2G airwaves suggested by Subodh Kumar Committee report. Representatives from telecom department, TRAI and other industries were present in the committee headed by Subodh Kumar. A Raja minister for telecommunication referred this report to TRAI as a part of creating new policy.