3g Vs Wifi

Though one might think WiFi’s and 3G are different, they have many common features. The first and foremost similarity is that both are wireless, thus avoiding the need to install cables and helps in mobility. Since both are wireless, they both can be scaled up. Both can be installed swiftly and with less installation cost and manpower. Since these both are wireless, they offer more mobility by letting the equipments to be moved wherever the end user wants and the ability to stay connected even around vast areas. Both the technologies are edge-networked technologies. Both the technologies offer broadband data service, although the data transfer rates may vary and almost always the WiFi will surpass the 3G. The key feature is that a range of useful and common features are supported by the two technologies, including voice, data and media streaming real-time.

With so many similarities, let us see how different they are now. Firstly the business models and the deployment models are different. 3G is the most preferred technology to upgrade or expand capacity over existing telephone services. Here service providers own and manage their own infrastructure and sell the service upon that infrastructure. Whereas WiFi has evolved from the computer industry and the makers usually sell the infrastructure to the end-users in terms of boxes etc. the spectrum policy and management is different in both the technologies. WiFi services are long established than the 3G network in OECD countries. Voice services are better in 3G technology as they were designed particularly for those attributes.

Thus we can find a future development in integrating both these technologies to create better services in voice and multimedia so as to benefit the end-user. None of the two technologies can be left out for the other.