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The service delivered is usually standard Web access. With 3 Mobile, the advantages of high-speed wireless are delivered not only in a mobile sense (not stationary) but also on a platform which allows for a whole new world of rich multimedia services -- ranging from top 10 music videos and tracks, video news, sport and information, comedy and games through to PC-style mobile office services, stock quotes, and charts.
Purpose-built to handle the convergence of media, telecommunications, and IT networks, 3G is IP and open standards based. It is better equipped to handle high-speed mobile data, simultaneous voice, data, and video sessions, and location-based services utilising satellite global positioning technology.
Hutchison sees demand for 3G broadband wireless data access coming from professional users, all kinds of mobile workforces (particularly in sales) and industries where the visual is important to customers, such as real estate, interior and exterior design, and countless others.
Armed with a NetConnect 3G data card in their laptops, Australian business subscribers to Hutchison's 3G network enjoy high-speed wireless Internet access without the need to find a hotspot.
First National real estate agents in Dural use Hutchison 3's Motorola A925 handsets to show vendors the price properties are selling for, calculate distances from points of interest (schools, transport), call-up sales histories, and make appraisals and forecasts.
Pauline O'Neill, principal of sales, Dural First National says in a statement that the application has increased their efficiency by 25 percent.
"The ability to download, enter, and send data at high-speed and generate reports on-the-spot saves us an average of two hours per day," she said.
Hutchison director of technology, infrastructure and services, Michael Young, says business users can expect many more customised applications in coming months and into the future. In addition, speed, service delivery, and savings from this will continue to improve over the next few years.
"The capacity to do more at less cost is a key aspect of the competitive advantage of 3G," says Young.
"It costs less to deliver a kilobyte via a 3G network, so we are in a better position than GSM and WiFi to pass on savings for the long term," he says. "We will deliver 2Meg downlink speed by 2005-2006 and as much as 10 MPS by 2008."
"It will be an exciting journey. But the way we have kicked off fills us with great confidence about our current direction and great optimism about the future."
The carrier has just completed its latest network upgrade which means it can handle 800,000 users. Now planning its 2005 deployment, it has decided to skip the next stage in capacity upgrade will instead jump straight to 1.7 million customer capacity.
This article was first published in Technology & Business magazine.
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I use this one. it wors perfect! I think that the future is with 802.11n