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3G Mobile Operators

There are several 2G to 3G mobile operators that have paved the way for rather evolutionary ways to bring upgrading in simultaneous network planning. They now have their new broad spectrum network which has brought forth the distinctive choice of 3G families with 3GPP as well as 3GPP2.

The full form of 3G is 3rd Generation Partnership Project or 3 GPP. This 1st came into being in 1998 with foster development to 3G networks that came rightfully from GSM and 3GPP technologies that evolved through. The evolved packages brought about different services like that of General Packet Radio Service or the directly GPRS ascended service.

The direct GPRS ascended service brought about 114 Kbps of speed while the Enhanced Data Rates brought about Global Evolution or the EDGE facility that reached up to 384 Kbps. The UMTS Wideband CDMA or WCDMA offered the fresh downlink speed of 1.92 Mbps. The High Speed Downlink Packet Access or HSDPA is another downlink that comes with 14Mbps. The LTE Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access or E-UTRA would also bring this really high speed of 100Mbps.

The GPRS deployments had started in 2000 that soon followed the bringing of the EDGE facility in 2003. These technologies had been defined by IMT-2000 which is also the 2.5G, as known to many. The multi-megabit data rates then soon got superceded by the HSDPA. The uplink to HSUPA is also known as the HSDPA. The 3GPP worked along with 166 HSDPA along with networks all across 75 countries of the world. The LTE E-UTRA has been known to get completed by late 2008.

The 2nd organization to the 3rd Generation Partnership Project 2 or 3GPP2 got formed including some operating countries in North America as well as Asia. This project helped them transition the CDMA2000 to 3G. The 3GPP2 technology got evolved and transformed accordingly.

The One Times Radio Transmission Technology even got to speed up limits to 144 Kbps with Evolution being released right after. The Data Optimized or EV-DO also increased some of the greater downlink speed to about 2.4Mbps. EV-DO Rev. A boosted the downlink peak to a top speed of about 3.1 Mbps and then also reduced the latency of the whole process. The EV-DO Rev. B could use about 2 to 15 channels with about downlink peaking that could get to 4.9 Mbps.

The Ultra Mobile Broadband or UMB got slated to reach 288 Mbps with its own downlink. The 1 x RTT also came for public use in 2002 and then again came over to be used in 2004. The 1 x RTT could be referred to as 2.5G as it served to be a transitional phase for EV-DO. This also got extended twice over with a Revision coming over.
The services came about in 2006 with successful products coming to be used in Revision B that increased the data speed of successful transmission.