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Will 3G meet consumer expectation?..

Will 3G meet consumer expectation?…

The ever growing demand for richer and sophisticated applications on mobile cell phone has greatly influenced the exponential growth in wireless communication. Even before the penetration of 2.5G in to the rural market by now urbanites are counting days for full fledged 3G network with fantastic expectation.

Many developed countries are by now functioning with full stretched wings in 3G. In India regime is yet to auction the bandwidth that 3G is demanding.

As 3G is having very large  bandwidth compared to its predecessors, consumers are expecting much luxurious services from it, such as high speed internet, video conferencing on go, high quality picture, online streaming video & audio etc. Nearly 5% of mobile users have by now upgraded themselves with 3G handsets.

While service providers like Airtel, Vodafone, Thought cellular etc are still working out strategy for their legacy systems and infrastructure to fulfill consumers need, handset manufacturers like Nokia, LG, Kyocera, Glide and applications developers are by now much ahead and racing towards 4G networks. Nokia N series is said to be the best apposite mobile for 3G network in Indian market.

The attention developers are using SDP and IMS for rising many multimedia applications apposite to 3G and beyond.

But in malevolence of all these what needs to be seen is will service providers really meet the required/expected bandwidth for individual consumer?. There is a possibility that the extra bandwidth will be used to serve more number of customer with existing voice based services and limited VAS. But they may also introduce premium services with privileged service charge to limited customer.

Therefore its still a “wait and mind” scenario for end user whether he will be really able to delight in the facilities what 3G has promised.