Chapter 1
A Peek at the Past
From social media check-ins during a beach vacation to geo-tagging and uploading photos of a trekking adventure or answering a critical call from your mobile device during a desert safari, it is expected that the network will always be there, providing continuous connectivity to fulfill what are now considered to be regular, everyday tasks.
Ubiquitous mobile connectivity is not just a requirement but rather an expectation in today’s mobile services landscape. The flexibility and usability enjoyed by a vast majority of mobile users daily have been a result of multiple decades of innovation in mobile communication technologies as well as the underlying network infrastructure that supports it. Over the past few decades, ...
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