UMTS components

The main feature of 3G technology is that it supports greater voice and data capacity and high data transmission at low-cost . 3G mobiles can operate on 2G and 3G technologies.

There are three major parts to a 3G mobile network:

There are a number of use cases and applications for 3G technologies:

In theory, basic 3G allows download speeds of up to 7.2Mbps , giving users the capacity to download an amount of data equal to a song per minute – however, in reality, actual experienced speeds are somewhat less than this, with the average download speed coming in at around 3Mbps.