In your Android smartphone, the strength of
mobile Internet signal is shown using
alphabet
letters
G,E,2G,3G,H and 4G near the signal bar.
Have you ever wondered about the meaning of
these symbols/letters? Well, today I will
tell you about the meaning of letters
G,E,2G,3G,H and 4G in
the context of the mobile Internet.
MEANING OF ‘G’ IN MOBILE SIGNAL Letter G stands for GPRS (General Packet
Radio
Service). It indicates the slowest speed
of internet
data transfer in your mobile phone.
When you see G near your signal strength indicator, it
is certain
that your net connection is working at
the slowest
speed. GPRS is considered to be the
second generation (2G) mobile technology. It is the slowest
and
oldest among all mobile tecnologies. It is
mainly
good enough for sending text messsges
using apps like WhatsApp. Data rates in GPRS
are
between 56 and 114Kbit/second
MEANING OF E IN MOBILE SIGNAL Letter E
stands for EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for
GSM Evolution) . It is also called Enhanced GPRS.
This technology lies somewhere in
between 2G
and 3G technology. So, some people refer
to it as
2.5G. EDGE is faster that GPRS but still not good enough
to browse the internet. It takes lot of
time in
loading websites when your signal bar is
showing
E letter alongside. Typically EDGE provides a data
rate of 400 Kbits/second but in ideal
conditions
data rate of up to 1 Mbit/second can also
be achieved. This technology also lies
somewhere in between 2G and 3G. Those who call GPRS
as 2.5 G,
they refer EDGE as 2.75G. MEANING OF 3G
IN MOBILE SIGNAL 3G means the third
generation of mobile
telephone technology. It uses the Universal Mobile
Telecommunication Sytsem and is based
on GSM
Standards.
Typically 3g provides data transfer rates
384 kbit/second. But depending upon how it
is implemented on various networks,
the date rate
can go up to 42 Mbits/second.
Usually 3G is faster than EDGE and you
can easily browse websites and stream music
MEANING OF H in MOBILE SIGNAL H stands
for HSPA (High speed Packet Access). It
is an enhanced form of 3G technology.
HSPA
provides higher data transfer rates than the basic
3G. HSPA can provide peak data rates of
up to 14
Mbit/s for downlink and 5.76 Mbit/s for
up uplink.
High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) is a further enhanced version of
HSPA. HSDPA
supports download speed of up to 99.3
Mbit/s.
When you see letter H near the signal
bar in your mobile phone, you can stream music and
even
Youtube Videos without much
interruption, But if
you want to download a movie, it is
going to take a very long time! MEANING OF H+ IN MOBILE SIGNAL This is enhanced
HSPA. It is faster than basic HSPA
(as explained above). Relatively
speedier data
transfer in H+ will make your video to
download or stream much more smoothly. At
present 4G
technology is not widely available. So, in
most
parts of the world, HSPA+ is the fastest
speed you can get through mobile internet. MEANING OF WCDMA WCDMA is
also a 3G technology. It stands for Wide-
band Code Division Multiple Access
(CDMA).
Interestingly, this technology is actually
used in the GSM systems. WCDMA in GSM
increases the
data transmission speed by using the air
interface
of CDMA. International
Telecommunications Union has adopted WCDMA. MEANING OF 4G IN MOBILE
SYSTEM If you see 4G near a signal bar in
your mobile
phone, you’re lucky! It means you are
using the
fastest mobile internet connection available on
the globe at present
4G is the fourth generation of mobile
technology.
It is also called LTE (Long Term
Evolution) . 4G connection works as good as a wi-fi connection of
your home or office. With such
connection you
can do everything on your mobile that
you can do
on your desktop. Just to round it all up, the bars in signal indicator
show the strength or quality of the
signal you’re
getting at your present location. Also,
mobile
phone makers often use a dull colour (like gray)
to show weak/absent signal and a bright
colour
(like green and blue) to show good
signal. Tiny arrows in the signal bar
show that the data transfer is taking place. The radar like
icon shows
the wi-fi connection.
Thank's for reading my article
Meaning Of 2 G, 3 G, E, H , H + , 4 G, G. In The Mobile Internet Signal BarCreated at 2016-09-02 12:41:01
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