4G: LTE/LTE-Advanced for Mobile Broadband, 2nd Edition
by Erik Dahlman, Stefan Parkvall, Johan Skold
Preface
During the past years, there has been a quickly rising interest in radio access technologies for providing mobile as well as nomadic and fixed services for voice, video, and data. This proves that the difference in design, implementation, and use between telecom and datacom technologies is also becoming more blurred. What used to be a mobile phone used for voice communication is today increasingly becoming the main data communication device for end-users, providing web browsing, social networking, and many other services.
Today, the most widespread radio access technology for mobile communication is digital cellular, with the number of subscribers exceeding six billion in 2013, quickly approaching an average of one subscription for ...
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