3G Wireless Demystified

3G Wireless Demystified

Sort buzz from hype from bottom line with this application and service-oriented guide to third-generation wireless. In 3G Wireless Demystified, telecom experts Lawrence Harte, Richard Levine, and Roman Kikta provide a big picture overview of 3rd Generation universal mobile telecommunications systems (UMTS) written for wireless operators, equipment manufacturers, broadband applications developers, and others who want to stay up to date with the wireless industry.

Get Your Business Airborne

3G Wireless Demystified helps you:

• Evaluate user requirements, available service features, software and hardware products, and design issues in current and forthcoming systems, handset or network
• Add, fax, email, Web-browsing, and other high-bandwidth features to existing wireless systems
• Compare benefits and drawbacks of WCDMA, CDMA2000, and TD/CDMA
• Uncover the bottom line on wireless costs
• Make technology and systems choices, roll them out, and make them work for customers and your company's growth
• Understand the economic implications of using 3G systems for mobile and wireless local loop (WLL) applications

See how wireless systems are evolving into the next generation--and preview changes cresting the horizon. You don't need technical expertise to understand this book, which offers a thorough examination of costs--equipment, capital funding, and operations.

Contents

• Foreword
• Preface
• Ch. 1 Introduction to Mobile Wireless 1
• Ch. 2 First Generation Analog Cellular 29
• Ch. 3 Digital Cellular Radio Technology 63
• Ch. 4 GPRS and EDGE (2.5 Generation) 99
• Ch. 5 Code Division Multiple Access 2000 (CDMA2000) 187
• Ch. 6 Wideband CDMA (WCDMA) 265
• Ch. 7 Wireless Telephones 311
• Ch. 8 Wireless Networks 345
• Ch. 9 Wireless Economics 401
• Ch. 10 3rd Generation Wireless Applications 441
• App.: Acronyms and Abbreviations 477
• Index 489