Third-generation Mobile and the UMTS Licences

Dimitris N. Chorafas

Chapter 10 in Rating Management’s Effectiveness, 2004, pp 225-251 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In the 1980s, the first-generation (1G) wireless systems were analog. In the 1990s, with the second generation (2G), digital approaches became avail-able, but baseband. The first years of the twenty-first century saw third-generation (3G) broadband digital solutions — at least on paper and by means of extremely expensive radio wave licences. Basically, 2G systems were designed and used primarily for voice; 3G solutions are projected for convergent technologies, and big-volume wireless transmission if there is a use for it. This transition from older to newer mobile generations could be significant because one of the important changes in technology today is the contemplated move towards mobile internet. In rapid succession we have gone from analog cellular to digital cellular and mobile internet, which is third generation.

Keywords: Short Message Service; Code Division Multiple Access; Mobile Operator; Time Division Multiple Access; Mobile Telephony (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-00590-7_10

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9780230005907

DOI: 10.1057/9780230005907_10

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().