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In the US, Verizon shutdown their 3G services on 31 December 2022, [28] T-Mobile shut down Sprint's networks on 31 March 2022 and shutdown their main networks on 1 July 2022, [29] and AT&T has done so on 22 February 2022. [30] Currently 3G around the world is declining in availability and support.
3GP is defined in the ETSI 3GPP technical specification. [1] 3GP is a required file format for video and associated speech/audio media types and timed text in ETSI 3GPP technical specifications for IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) and Transparent end-to-end Packet-switched Streaming Service ().
The first African use of 3G technology was a 3G video call made in Johannesburg on the Vodacom network in November 2004. The first commercial launch was by Emtel-ltd in Mauritius in 2004. In late March 2006, a 3G service was provided by the new company Wana in Morocco.
In 1998, 3G was introduced to provide faster data-transmission speeds to support video calling and internet access. 4G was released in 2008 to support more demanding services such as gaming services, HD mobile TV, video conferencing, and 3D TV. [3] 5G technology was initially released in 2019, but is still only available in certain areas.
The Three mobile service was launched in the UK on 3 March 2003, [6] with handsets going on sale later that year. Three was the UK's first commercial video mobile (3G) network. [7] Three was the first network to meet its regulatory requirement of 80% population coverage in the UK, meeting this by 9 December 2004. [8]
Later 3G releases, often denoted 3.5G and 3.75G, also provide mobile broadband access of several Mbit/s to smartphones and mobile modems in laptop computers. This ensures it can be applied to wireless voice telephony, mobile Internet access, fixed wireless Internet access, video calls and mobile TV technologies.
Video over cellular (VoC), also known as VoCIP (video over cellular Internet Protocol), is a term used for processing streaming video such as surveillance, using high-resolution video cameras over 3G and 4G cellular networks. Creating a VoC transmission requires encoding and decoding of video packets
Till now, they are providing both 3G and 4G services. In the 2G and 3G eras, it was the second largest mobile operator in Macau. In the 2G era, its market share was approximately 31%, as of December 31, 2003. [14] In the 3G era, its market share was approximately 33% in terms of the number of customers, as of 31 December 2008. [15]