August 2010
Intermediate to advanced
326 pages
9h 55m
English
Acknowledgements
Writing this book has been nothing short of an exciting journey – and no words are sufficient to thank those people who have helped in various ways during the course of this project.
My big thanks go to Mark Hammond and Sarah Tilley from John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, who believed that this project would finally be completed in spite of numerous delays.
Special thanks are due to my following colleagues and friends for taking out the time to read the manuscript and give their valuable comments: Johanna Kahkonen, Mika Sarkioja, Sushant Bhargava, Shweta Jain, Pauli Aikio, Munir Sayyad (Reliance Communications) and Cameron Gillis.
Many thanks go to Sam Pitroda, Advisor to The Prime Minister of India and First Chairman of the Telecom Commission of India, and Adel Hataab Vice President, Nokia Oy for donating their precious time in writing the Forewords and sharing their vision with us.
Many thanks are due to Rauno Granath and Amit Sehgal for their contributions to Chapter 1 and to Sameer Mathur and Anne Larilahti for their contributions in writing the Appendices.
Thanks also to KanakShree Vats, Kanchan Agarwal, Shankar Shivram, C. Ravindranath Bharathy, Das Bhumesh Kailash, Dandavate Pushpak Ravindra, Abhishek Kumar and Kriti Vats for helping me during the last phases of the writing of this book.
My all-time thanks must go to my Professors/Mentors, G. P. Srivastava, K. K. Sood and J. M. Benedict, and to my colleagues, Antti Rahikainen, Reema Malhotra and Prashant ...
