This comprehensive overview brings you up-to-date on new technologies for low-speed data, speech, and broadband communications, competing standards, adjacent technologies, new generation networks, and future developments. It's the only book on mobile telecommunications technology in Europe to include all new developments up to 1998. The book's coverage of historical, market, and technology data not only extends to all European Union member states, plus Norway and Switzerland, but also offers detailed comparisons with developments in the United States and Japan. It includes up-to-date discussions on standards such as GSM, TETRA/Tetrapol, POGSAC/ERMES/FLEX, and W-CDMA, several adjacent technologies such as VSAT, (d-) GSP and DAB broadcasting, and US and Japanese standards such as IS-95 CDMA, D-AMPS, FLEX/ReFlex, and PDC. Cover to cover, you get the in-depth information you need to compare design features and standards for the various technologies, develop a set of criteria for choosing a mobile communications platform for a specific application, and assess competitive issues between different networks and technologies and market network services.
Methods of Telecommunications. The Development of Mobile Communications Systems. Policy and Regulations. Structure of Radio Communications Systems. Techniques in Radiocommunications. Cellular Telephony. Mobile Radio Networks. Packet-Switched Mobile Data Communications. Personal Satellite Communications. Cordless Telephony. Paging. Other Related Standards. Development, Policy and Network Implementation. Areas of Application. Selection and Implementation of a Mobile (Data) Communications System.
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Rudi Bekkers
Rudi Bekkers received a Ph.D. for a study on the success and failures of European standards for mobile communications at Eindhoven University of Technology. He also holds a B.Sc. in electrical engineering and an M.Sc. in technology and society. Dr. Bekkers is the co-author of Mobile Telecommunications: Standards, Regulation, and Applications (Artech House, 1999).
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Jan Smits
Jan Smits is an independent telecommunications consultant and a professor of law and technology at Eindhoven University of Technology. He holds a masters (LL.M.) from Tilburg University and a Ph.D. in Law from Utrecht University.