So you want to get hitched, but are bogged down by the mountain-load of work in office? That’s just too bad. Adding further pressure to your love life is the fact that your weekends are spent dealing with myriad relatives and cousins. A solution to your problems might be round the corner. The advent of 3G is set to remove time-related constraints from gaining a stranglehold on your love life. You will be able to discover love on the go, in a quite literal sense of the term.

Your mobile phone will be the magic key that unlocks the portals of your love life. You don’t believe it. Wait for a few more months, as soon as the 3G services get launched by the various private operators, a floodgate of love enhancing applications and websites might become a reality. You won’t even have to go out looking for Cupid. He is going to be right there, in the 3G world of your phone, shooting darts of love.

A mobile dating agency could turn out to be a great way of finding new friends or partners for fun, dating and long or short term relationships. What makes the deal evenbetter is the fact that you are free to decide how much you want to reveal to the person at the other end. Your privacy is safeguarded at every point of time. The 3G technology promises unrivalled levels of safety, convenience and ease of use. You can even pick up an anonymous avatar to communicate with prospective partners.

Forget text messages, in the world of 3G, a video or music based message might be more in the line. And that opens up a vista of new possibilities. Instead of trying to woo their muse by sending love quotes through SMS, users might resort to sending well-crafted videos or snippets of music. Surely a piece of exciting music or a video is supposed to work in a much better way, as compared to mere text.

If you are young at heart, 3G comes with endless possibilities. We can envisage apps, where you only need to register your mobile number and disclose your sexual preferences in order to start receiving messages (text, music or video) from like-minded individuals. Such systems are already in place in many Western countries and once 3G gets rolled out in India, the desi networking aficionados are going to enjoy similar treats.

Currently dating in India is still in nascent stage and mostly limited to bigger towns and cosmopolitan cities. Even there, dating is acceptable to a very small section of the society. However, in western countries dating is a common phenomenon and mobile users are taking full advantage of 3G networks to boost their love life.

Those who use mobile dating can actually chat, flirt and even get automatically involved using mobile web and other related services. 3G, which actually offers a better bandwidth for data hungry services such as mobile web, makes it easy for users to use their mobile for all sort of purposes, which entail transportation of large files.

There are no lost connections, it doesn't take hours of waiting for a video to get downloaded. Dating services on 3G networks is already a big craze in many countries around the world. In fact, according to Juniper Research, an international research agency, the mobile dating and chat room market is expected to grow to $ 1.4 billion by 2013. It also predicted that around 250 million people around the world will be using these services by 2012.

Those who are prolific iPhone users can already see that there are a number of apps in the Apple's iTunes store that enable you to propose to your loved ones in innovative ways and even express your love.

In India there are a few mobile dating services such as Indiatimes Liv2Luv that allows you to get hooked using SMS, chat and mobile web. It also gives value added services such as annual love forecast, love quotient and even a love meter.

However, most of these services are available only through SMS. On the other hand slow data speeds on 2G mobile services do not allow things like video chatting or streaming of videos on mobile phones. Big brands like Yahoo! have also launched mobile dating service that mainly works on SMS. But currently there is very limited uptake of such services. With 3G, these websites are going to become much more advanced. Users will be able to exchange videos, pictures and much else in a seamless manner and they will be able to flirt using their mobile phones as never before.

We can also expect location based romance to shine brightly on the city’s singles. All one needs to do is post his/her current location and the dating agency or website can throw up a number of options for the person to choose from. We can expect slick graphical interface, attentive customer service and extremely inexpensive fees, all of which will make 3G based systems a really worthwhile mode of finding new partners.

The bottom line is that 3G telephony is all set to give a gigantic fillip to your love life. Don’t worry about your age, you don’t even need to worry about the size of your wallet, or for that matter that of your looks, there are going to be opportunities galore once the 3G system is underway. With so many individuals networked through the airwaves, finding new friends is going to be a breeze.

Even when it comes to a more permanent kind of bonding, like in a marriage, a 3G system can be of help in bringing potential mates together. In other words, we expect the 3G networks to play the role of cupid, which facilitates long-term love affair between two partners. In order to increase the opportunities for meeting, attention will be focussed on users who share the same social network and proximity.

You input your details and your thoughts about a future consort on the website, and the moment all the data is uploaded, you start getting messages on your smartphone. Hopefully one of the messages will be from someone who is compatible with you. Already many mobile-based matrimonial sites are in operation in the country. Once 3G gets rolled out, the services at these websites will become seamlessly accessible through the smartphone.

The bottom line is that 3G is not just a tool for enhancing your professional capabilities, on the personal front too it is going to work wonders. If you have been on the look out for a magic key that will unlock the portals of your love life, then a 3G-enabled phone might just prove to be like a proverbial Cupid, who keeps shooting love darts with the aim of taking your love life to the next level.