At first sight mobile communication of the third generation may seem very attractive and advantageous for everybody:
1. on the one hand users will get high quality services such as excellent
2. new revolutionary services like video calls or VoIP calls over the internet
3. sound quality
4. fast mobile internet connection
5. thus can count on getting super-profits within a short period of time
6. on the other hand the mobile operators will get access to the newest market of such services with a high level of demand
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Since long ago business cannot be imagined without telephony. If you are a businessman running a company you may probably not realize how business could work without telephones in the past century. Making orders, communicating with partners, banks, clients - all this would be impossible without the telephone in our days.
The next stage of development of business communication is the introduction of analogue technologies of mobile telecommunication. They allowed businessmen to communicate with their subordinates, clients, suppliers without the necessity to stay in their office, which improved the quality and the speed of business decisions and concluding business contracts altogether. At that time mobile technologies were considered too expensive and only the biggest companies could afford that. But then, with the lapse of time, mobile technologies evolved and covered more and more areas, allowing mobile operators to reduce their prices considerably. Since late 90's mobile telephones in most countries of the world have been considered as commonplace as the landline telephony and in some cases even cheaper. All this brought business to a considerably higher level of quality, mobilizing almost every process of management.
The new mobile technology of the third generation which is being extensively developed and introduced in the whole world is about to change the way of doing business considerably. The core aspect of such change is the speed of data transfer that 3G networks offer. And the speed of data transfer is a crucial thing for a growing range of businesses nowadays. Mass media, travel agencies, insurance companies, banks and retailers are among the numerous types of businesses that need fast internet connection anywhere. And third generation mobile networks is something that will change the way of understanding business in general.
M-commerce is a medium for such qualitative changes. M-commerce is the ability to perform certain commercial operations using a mobile device, e.g. a mobile phone. It means that soon all the major types of banking operations like money transfers or payment for certain products or services could be made with the help of a mobile phone - you won't need to go to a bank in order to open an account or make a payment.
Today more and more companies turn their attention to mobile services and m-commerce in general. They are interested in cooperation with mobile service providers in order to create systems of mobile payments for the products they are offering. For example, some retailers, especially internet retailers, are already cooperating with some mobile operators by taking payments from clients for their products and services by means of deducting from the clients' credits. Indeed, it is a very convenient option both for the companies and for their clients. Other types of mobile commerce are mobile ticketing, content purchase, information services, mobile auctions, mobile brokerage and others.
Thus, based on the information above we may conclude that the 3G mobile technology is an essential element for the business in general.