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Multimedia Communications and Networking
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Multimedia Communications and Networking

by Mario Marques da Silva
April 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
506 pages
15h 9m
English
CRC Press
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CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS

The recent need to be in permanent touch with others facilitated an enormous growth of wireless communication, both in terms of offer and service demand. In the past, cellular phones were used mainly for voice communication. A constant evolution of services allowed the massification of services such as short message services (SMS), multi­media messaging service (MMS), video call, and so on. Recently, mainly as a result of the implementation of the universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS) by cellular operators, Internet access became possible, allowing a new myriad of services such as e-mail, video streaming, and web browsing, among others. In fact, the evolution from the second-generation cellular systems (2G) ...

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ISBN: 9781439874851