Overview

Mobile systems - primarily cellular telephony - have been the fastest moving telecommunications development to date with a world-wide customer base that in the ten or so years to April 1996 reached 100 million and continues with a current growth rate of 60% per annum world-wide. Predictions suggest that the customer base will exceed 1 billion within the next ten years and that the saturation level is around 80% of any population. Faced with such statistics any book such as this can proffer little more than a snapshot of the activities and developments that are at present taking place within the mobile world. It can, however, reflect on some of the underlying principles that support the industry. The opening chapter offers a vision for the future of mobile communications - that of more mobile than fixed connections to the world's telecommunica­ tions networks - one which, interestingly, pre-dates the emergence of the information superhighway. The Internet whose growth of computer networks has, in recent years, exceeded that of even mobile systems is demanding ever more bandwidth to support its multimedia applications and access for people on the move. The communications needs of the next century customer are the driv­ ers behind the convergence of computing and telecommunications networks, the mobile component of which will be realized as Third Generation Mobile Sys­ tems (fGMS).

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Author:   Ian Stanley Groves
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998
Volume:   12
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.421kg
ISBN:  

9781461379294

ISBN 10:   1461379296
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   22 December 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1 The mobile revolution.- 2 Radio spectrum for mobile networks.- 3 Mobile network design and optimization.- 4 Global system for mobile communications — what’s in store?.- 5 Cordless technology in a mobile environment.- 6 An overview of aeronautical telecommunications in Europe and world.- 7 Satellite personal communications.- 8 Mobile network transmission quality.- 9 Mobile data services.- 10 Mobile communications for an operational field force.- 11 Third generation mobile systems.- 12 The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System — a mobile network for the 21st century.- 13 Cellular environmental issues.- Appendix, List of Acronyms.

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