Movistar have a 3G network with UMTS technology, and offer services over GSM in places without 3G coverage.

One example is of a then Finnish mobile network company Sonera, which paid huge sums in German broadband auction then dubbed as 3G licenses.

EDGE meets the International Telecommunications Union's requirement for a 3G network, and has been accepted by the ITU as part of the IMT-2000 family of 3G standards.

The GPRS core network allows 2G, 3G and WCDMA mobile networks to transmit IP packets to external networks such as the Internet.

In December 2001, the company became the first telecommunications operator in Europe to launch a live 3G network.

In October 2008 Moldcell became the first carrier in Moldova to launch a 3G network, currently all carriers provide 3G services throughout the country.

Wana, formerly known as " Maroc Connect " offers 3G for MAD200 per month ( 19 €) in its offer " Internet Mobile ". Wana has the most extensive 3G network in Morocco.

Nawras launched its 3G network in selected areas in December 2007 with a download speed of 1 megabit.

Three networks, meaning Vodafone, Orange and Digi. Mobil also provide UMTS ( 3G ) services, and soon Zapp will follow, the network being under testing at the moment.

In May 2008, 3G network was deployed in St. Petersburg, in Kazan in June of that year, and in Sochi in July of that year.

This subsidiary grew to be Vodacom, which Telkom sold in late 2008 in preference for its own 3G network.

When PTS awarded four licenses for the 3rd generation mobile networks in December 2000, Telia was not among the winners, but later established an agreement to build a 3G network jointly with Tele2 using Tele2's licence.

SUNAB was founded as the jointly owned company that would in turn build, own and operate the join 3G network.

Telia was the fourth operator to launch 3G services and is the only operator to have a nationwide EDGE network.

The True-Hutch-CAT arrangement is under investigation by different agencies ; while TOT sublicensed its 3G network to Samart Corporation subject to the Administrative Court deliberation of the legality of the contract.

The four 2G companies all won 3G licences in a competitive auction, as did new entrant known as Hutchison 3G, which branded its network as 3.

Hutchinson 3G does not operate a 2G network, but has an agreement with Orange whereby customers who lose a 3G signal roam with Orange.

In February 2012, Antel announced a push to provide fixed wireless Internet service to rural customers using their 3G cellular network.

In 2005 Orange France becomes the first operator to use a national broadband network for mobile phones combining EDGE, which covers 95 % of the population, 3G, which covers 60 %, and GPRS ( low bandwidth Internet ), which covers 98 %.

In 2009, the 3G coverage covers most major towns where there is a telephone exchange and either HSDPA or EDGE services within radius ( GSM UMTS maximum allowed range ) with GPRS as basic data coverage.

Turbo 3G covers now most populated areas in Malaysia.

Maxis claimed it has widest 3G / 3. 5G / HSPA coverage that covers 80 % of populated areas.

3G switchable film also has UV ( 100 %) and IR ( 94 %) blocking functions and security function.

Virtually 100 percent of markets had been outfitted with 3G 1xEV-DO digital technology, which allows for additional battery life and faster download times when using Internet or BREW-based applications.

The 3G rates are relatively cheap compared to the world, because of the lack of the country population and also lack of cultural technology immersion.

* 3G UMTS 900 / 2100 MHz dual-band network to around 97. 3 % of Australia's population, operating in all states in metropolitan and rural areas.

The company has used EDGE technology on its network and has received a 3G ( UMTS ) license, formerly removed from Eircom's competitor, Smart Telecom ( This required 33 % of the population to be covered by 3G by September 2008.

Verizon Wireless has announced that it plans to augment its CDMA2000-based EV-DO 3G network in the United States with LTE, and is supposed to complete a rollout of 175 cities by the end of 2011, two thirds of the US population by mid-2012, and cover the existing 3G network by the end of 2013.

With the recent developments in eircom's acceptance of the fourth 3G licence from ComReg, Meteor is now obliged to have 33 % of the population covered with commercial roll out of 3G services in October 2007.

This means that they will soon be able to offer nationwide 3G services, with a Meteor 3G network already available to 33 % of the Irish population ( this includes the four cities of Dublin, Cork, limerick, Galway and other regional centres ).

Tele2 is rolling out a HSPA-enabled 3G network currently covering some 80 % of the population.

Since the beginning of 2006, Cellcom began deploying a 3G UMTS-2100 network nationwide which by the end of 2007 covered than 87 % of the population.

* In 2009, SaskTel began construction of a new $ 172 million Universal Mobile Telecommunications System ( UMTS ) / High Speed Packet Access ( HSPA +) wireless network, which would give Sasktel a 3G + Network and hold 98 % of the population of Saskatchewan under its coverage.

The early 3G handsets and modems were specific to the frequencies required in their country, which meant they could only roam to other countries on the same 3G frequency ( though they can fall back to the older GSM standard ).

This liability will only increase as the new third-generation ( 3G ), LTE, WiMAX, and fourth-generation ( 4G ) phones are introduced, as the base stations will be located closer together.

Most major cablecos are offering digital television via ADSL and 3G / 4G LTE nowadays, but Maxivision has been the only IPTV operator in the country since its inception.

Initially-as the first full-scale 3G service in the world-FOMA handsets were of experimental character targeting early adopters, and were big, had poor battery life and the network covered the center of Japan's largest towns only.

While as of February 2005, DoCoMo's FOMA 3G service had attracted 10 million subscribers, and KDDI's 3G service had attracted over 17 million subscribers, Vodafone's 3G service only attracted 527, 300 subscribers.

Currently Reliance is only operator who provides up to 28 Mbit / s speed in India with its 3G MIMO technology.

3G is available with external antenna only.

The 120kbit / s only applies to handsets that are 3G capable, full 236. 8kbit / s is offered to GSM / EDGE only devices.

CQUPT is the only Chinese university participating in the development of China's own 3G standard: TD-SCDMA.

Presently, BSNL and MTNL are the only players to provide 3G services, as the Government of India has completed auction of 3G services for private players.

This means 3G service will be rolled out only in areas where data traffic is heavy, or with strategic importance ( for example, Putrajaya which is the government's administrative centre ).

Consumers may hold any quantity of 1. 4G fireworks for personal use for up to 21 days ; if this includes 1. 3G fireworks, the time limit is only three days.

Razer does not include the Microsoft Habu on their mouse comparison page, and it is even rumored that Razer gave the Microsoft Habu a laser sensor to tone down the product, knowing its tracking faults, while saving their much superior 3G infrared sensor for their DeathAdder mouse, a mouse with the same shape released only a couple months after the Microsoft Habu.

Its only operations during that time were creating their brand image, trying to achieve an agreement with an existing network operator to act as a backup for their fresh born 3G network and setting up some base stations so as to not lose their UMTS license, which required them to have some active service prior to a given date.