Various 3 G standards

In this post we will focus on various 3G standards and which standard is suitable for Indian Telecom industry

• IMT-2000, in fact, represents several incompatible standards lumped together under one banner. The hope of IMT-2000 is that phones using these different standards will be able to move seamlessly between all networks, thus providing global roaming.

• UMTS is the successor to the current ultra-successful GSM mobile phone standard in Europe. UMTS is being very heavily sold as the 3G standard

• CDMA2000, is the 3G standard developed in the U.S. by Qualcomm and is the global competitor to UMTS

• TD-SCDMA, is a 3G standard largely developed in China

India has the potential to become a test bed for developing technologies. A recent report issued by the the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) says, India is expected to have 21.3m 3G users by 2010.