Mobile Communication Technologies: 1G to 4G

Abstract Mobile communication has gone through revolutionary changes during past decade. Mobiles, nowadays has all functionalities of computer and trying to replace it. It was a step by step process. Each change marks an improvement over previous one and termed as a generation of technology. A generation largely indicates the type of services and the data transfer speeds of each class of technology. In this paper all the technological changes occurring in mobile communication technologies have been presented and compare various advantages and improvements over previous one. The paper also discusses the competition between 3G and 4G technology. At the end, paper throws some light on the latest researches in the mobile communication.