3G Provides Mobile Broadband Today White Paper
Economic principles explain the success of 3G and foreshadow its dominant role in providing mobile broadband to billions of users. The demand for voice communication and the availability of increasingly affordable technologies and services have led to an enormous installed base of global subscribers. The large, mature 3G ecosystem of operators, vendors, and developers has sufficient scale to deliver economical mobile broadband. Numerous operators are providing a broad range of IP-based services today.