3G coverage

The 3G coverage has been landed in Sarawak but only some place has the 3G coverage. Well what is 3G? 3G is the third generation of mobile phone standards and technology, superseding 2G, and preceding 4G. It is based on the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) family of standards under the International Mobile Telecommunications programmed, IMT-2000. Well most of us only know 3G is a coverage that can make you sent or receive the video call from your friends but there is still some more function besides making video call though 3G mobile phone. Unfortunately there only 2 operators is running this 3G coverage only in Malaysia, and now there is lot of type of mobile phone start to sell 3G mobile to fulfill the consumer need. There is only those 3G mobile phone can receive the 3G coverage signals, but if your mobile phone doesn’t have the 3G function you well not able to receive the video call sent by the 3G user, so it means that if you sent the video call to the receiver that doest have 3G, it means you have wasted money for nothing. Furthermore not everyone can afford a 3G mobile, because a set of 3G mobile is very expensive. If I not mistake, the cheapest should be around RM 500.00 above and the most expensive should be around RM 2000.00. It is not necessary to have one if you don’t often use video recording. Well besides making video call, the 3G coverage also can be a online server for surfing internet. In order to have it, you had to have a wireless modem that can receive the 3G signal or other signal, so that you can online. Well I myself is using USB Modem, which can also receive 3G coverage, unfortunately my area doest not cover by the 3G coverage and only have GPRS signal. The speed for a GPRS is only 3.6 kbps which similar to narrow band or we call dial up 1515 but the speed is constant even tough it is slow, unlike 1515 is may down or lost connect sometime but GPRS not like it, while the 3G can support up to 3.7 Mbps which means 3 time faster than Streamyx, and you can bring it to anyway you want to go. Well, the bad thing is, Malaysia has fully covered with 3G yet, but maybe soon, else it is very useful for every one, but there is one latest program named WIMAX say at 2010 all Malaysia is cover with wireless network, but still not sure yet, all we can do is wait and see.