Mobile Marketing: The History of Mobile Network Technologies - 3G

The third full generation of mobile technology, 3G networks can provide more advanced services while achieving higher network capacity than 2G technology. In terms of data, they provide mobile phones with broadband- or near-broadband-speed transmission. These networks are functionally similar to WIFi but are meant to cover a much larger area. The first 3G network was launched in Japan by DoCOMo; later the next year, SKTelecom launched another in South Korea. Monet Mobile Networks and Verizon were the first to launch 3G technology in the United States in 2003, and the 3 Network was the first to launch in Europe (the United Kingdom and Italy). (Download: 5.8Mbps, upload: 14.4Mbps).