https://padlet.com/sf_azimahmadbadri/1400e4mtpq6q9z6l A quick rundown of the various generations of mobile communications standards. en-us 2020-05-12 05:15:25 UTC 2020-05-12 05:32:54 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4de.png sf_azimahmadbadri https://padlet.com/sf_azimahmadbadri/1400e4mtpq6q9z6l/wish/566574506 First-generation (1G) wireless devices communicated only voice signals. The symbol "1G" refers to the voice-only communication. ]]> 2020-05-12 05:17:35 UTC https://padlet.com/sf_azimahmadbadri/1400e4mtpq6q9z6l/wish/566574506 sf_azimahmadbadri https://padlet.com/sf_azimahmadbadri/1400e4mtpq6q9z6l/wish/566575653 Second-generation (2G) devices communicate voice as well as data signals. 2G devices came onto the market in 1988 and have data rates of up to 14.4 kbps. ]]> 2020-05-12 05:19:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sf_azimahmadbadri/1400e4mtpq6q9z6l/wish/566575653 sf_azimahmadbadri https://padlet.com/sf_azimahmadbadri/1400e4mtpq6q9z6l/wish/566576112 The third-generation (3G) mobile devices communicate at an even higher data rates and support voice, data, and multimedia streams. 3G supports data rates of 2 Mbps or higher for  short distances and 384 kbps for long distance transmissions. High data rates in 3G devices enable transfer of video clips and faster multimedia communication]]> 2020-05-12 05:19:32 UTC https://padlet.com/sf_azimahmadbadri/1400e4mtpq6q9z6l/wish/566576112 sf_azimahmadbadri https://padlet.com/sf_azimahmadbadri/1400e4mtpq6q9z6l/wish/566576714 The 2.5G and 2.5G+ are enhancements of the second generation and support data rates of up to 100 kbps.]]> 2020-05-12 05:20:16 UTC https://padlet.com/sf_azimahmadbadri/1400e4mtpq6q9z6l/wish/566576714 sf_azimahmadbadri https://padlet.com/sf_azimahmadbadri/1400e4mtpq6q9z6l/wish/566577396 4G facilitates even higher data rates than 3G and supports streaming data for video. 4G enables multimedia newspaper, high-resolution mobile TV, Internet protocol (IP) telephony, and data rates of up to 100 Mbps. ]]> 2020-05-12 05:21:03 UTC https://padlet.com/sf_azimahmadbadri/1400e4mtpq6q9z6l/wish/566577396 sf_azimahmadbadri https://padlet.com/sf_azimahmadbadri/1400e4mtpq6q9z6l/wish/566578467 5G promises features such as up to 10Gbps data rates (which is ten to a hundred times an improvement over 4G and 4.5G networks), 1-millisecond latency,
a thousandfold more bandwidth per unit area, up to more than a hundred times the number of connected devices per unit area (compared with 4G LTE), 99.999% availability, 100% coverage, 90% reduction in network energy usage, as well as an up to 10-year battery life for low power Internet-of-Things devices.]]> 2020-05-12 05:22:15 UTC https://padlet.com/sf_azimahmadbadri/1400e4mtpq6q9z6l/wish/566578467