2. Technology Life Cycle
• The technology life cycle describes the commercial gain of
product through the expense of research and development
phase and financial return during its vital life.
• It is concerned with the time and cost of developing the
technology.
5. 0G Zero Generation of Mobile Phone
• Early predecessors of cellular phones
included radio communications from
ships and trains.
• The race to create truly portable
telephone devices began after World
War II, with developments taking
place in many countries.
• The advances in mobile telephony
have been traced in successive
generations from the early "0G"
services like the Bell System - Mobile
Telephone Service and its successor,
Improved Mobile Telephone Service.
• These '0G' systems were not cellular
and could support few calls, and were
very expensive.
6. 1G First Generation of Mobile Phone
• The first handheld mobile cell phone
was demonstrated by Motorola in
1973.
• The first commercial automated
cellular network was launched in
Japan by NTT in 1979.
• These '1G' systems could support far
more calls but still used analog
technology.
• Basic Mobility
• Basic Services
• Incompatibility
• Analog System
7. 2G Second Generation of Mobile Phone
• In 1991, the second generation (2G)
digital cellular technology was
launched in Finland by Radiolinja on
the GSM standard, which sparked
competition in the sector as the new
operators challenged the incumbent
1G network operators.
• Advanced mobility (Roaming)
• More services (Data presence)
• Towards global solution
• Digital system
8. 3G Third Generation of Mobile Phone
• Ten years later, in 2001, the third
generation (3G) was launched in
Japan by NTT DoCoMo on the
WCDMA standard.
• This was followed by 3.5G, 3G+ or
turbo 3G enhancements based on the
high-speed packet access (HSPA)
family, allowing UMTS networks to
have higher data transfer speeds and
capacity.
• Global radio access
• High data speed
9. 4G Fourth Generation of Mobile Phone
• The industry began looking to dataoptimized 4th generation technologies,
with the promise of speed improvements
up to 10-fold over existing 3G
technologies.
• IP based mobility
• Very high data speed
• Complete telecom/Datacom convergence
10. 5G Fifth Generation of Mobile Phone
• 5G (5th generation mobile networks or 5th generation wireless
systems) is a term used in some research papers and projects to denote
the next major phase of mobile telecommunications standards beyond
the current 4G standards.
• 5G is also referred to as beyond 2020 mobile communications
technologies. 5G does not describe any particular specification in any
official document published by any telecommunication
standardisation body.
• Although updated standards that define capabilities beyond those
defined in the current 4G standards are under consideration, those
new capabilities are still being grouped under the current 4G
standards.
• Li-Fi, or light fidelity, is a 5th generation visible light communication
network. Li-Fi uses light-emitting diodes to transmit data, rather than
radio waves like Wi-Fi.