
24 ◾ Mobile Evolution: Insights on Connectivity and Service
e 3GPP LTE initiative for a standardization of the connectivity capabilities is a global frame-
work for convergence, for the delivery of mobile services, through a common and well-dened set
of global specications. e exibility of design and information dissemination is open and avail-
able to participants of any denomination. It is the richness of ideas, discourse, conict, and consen-
sus that imparts enormous value in the standards endeavor. An engagement in the exploration of
technology ideas and concepts, within the standards process, provides early research opportunities
that ...