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Bharti Airtel, India's biggest telecom provider, has just launched an international video calling feature for 3G mobile customers in India. The launch coincides with a demand by the government to offer a mechanism for monitoring and interception of real-time video calls.

Airtel 3G users will now be able to speak face-to-face with family and friends abroad for the first time in over a year. The government had banned video calling in 2010 based on security concerns, but the ban has been lifted as carriers promised to develop video call interception capability. The problem before was that security agencies weren't able to intercept video calls in real time, but now they have addressed that issue. Airtel plans to charge rates of vidoe calls to the US, Bangladesh and Canada of Rs 14 per minute, while they will charge Rs 20 per minute for calls to UAE, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Oman.

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As per the reports Telekom Kenya is most likely to launch its 3G network by this July. Telekom Kenya actually got its 3G license in 2010. Currently the company is busy working on the necessary infrastructure required to support its 3G network.
Telekom Kenya has made it clear that once the 3G network is launched they will be able to offer faster data speeds which will be around 21 megabytes per second. Telekom has joined hands with ZTE Corporation for offering more internet services. Telekom has already invested around Sh4 billion for the development of its 3G network.
Telekom will be installing around 1,500 3G base stations throughout Kenya. Telekom Kenya's data market share was 15 percent during the last quarter of 2010 as it recorded 973,00 new customers.

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The word 3G means third generation. It's a wireless technology which comes with enhancements involving high-speed transmission, multimedia access and global roaming. 3G is mostly used with mobile phones for connecting to the Internet which solves for making video calls, downloading as well as uploading data from the net.
3G has features like many times higher data speed as compared to other networks, improvised audio and video streaming, enabling video-conferencing support etc. For owning a 3G network one requires a mobile that is 3G friendly. 3G phones have two cameras as the technology makes it possible for the user to have video calls, which requires a user-facing camera. Wi-Fi is available for free in some places but, to get a3G network connectivity, one need to subscribe to the service provider.