Wireless Communications & Networking

CHAPTER 15 Wide-Area Wireless Networks (WANs) — GSM Evolution

15.1 Introduction

Third-generation (3G) wireless systems [2, 3, 9] offer access to services anywhere from a single terminal; the old boundaries between telephony, information, and entertainment services are disappearing. Mobility is built into many of the services currently considered as fixed, especially in such areas as high speed access to the Internet, entertainment, information, and electronic commerce (e-commerce) services. The distinction between the range of services offered via wireline or wireless is becoming less and less clear and, as the evolution toward 3G mobile services speeds up, these distinctions will disappear in the first decade of the new millennium.

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