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3G (disambiguation)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 26, 2024
Entity authorityQ229462
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3G is a generation of standards for mobile telecommunication.

3G may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

3G (film), a Bollywood film

Apartment 3-G, an American newspaper comic strip about a trio of career women

Stephane & 3G, a Georgian pop group

"3G", a song by Yeat featuring Lil Uzi Vert from the deluxe edition of 2 Alive (2022)

3-G Home Video/3-G Productions, a distributor of various media on VHS in 1980s and 1990s

Computing and telecommunications

Hutchison 3G, a brand name under which several UMTS-based mobile phone networks operate

iPhone 3G, a smartphone sold by Apple Inc in 2008.

iPhone 3GS, a smartphone sold by Apple Inc in 2009.

NTFS-3G, an open-source cross-platform implementation of the Microsoft Windows NTFS file system

Government

3G (countries) or Global Growth Generators countries (the most promising growth prospects countries)

Global Governance Group (or GGG), an informal group of smaller and medium-sized counties represented in the G20 summits

3G-Regel, COVID-19 health pass system in Germany and Austria where most venues and businesses in both countries are restricted to patrons who are either vaccinated, recovered from previous COVID-19 infection, or tested within 72 hours.

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This entry incorporates text from 3G (disambiguation)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.