Mobile Generations

• First mobile generation was analogue

• Second mobile generation is digital

• Third generation offers multi-media

communication capabilities, at higher bit rates,

with improved spectrum efficiency

• IMT-2000 is the ITU definition of 3G

• IMT-Advanced being studied by ITU as 4G

- at least 100 Mbit/s with high mobility

- up to 1GBit/s with low mobility (nomadic)

• IMT is the ITU generic name for 3G and 4G