The growth of telecommunications has been largely based on mobile and
data services in the past 10 years and the growth will continue. For
instance, it is forecasted that after 2005 the mobile traffic turnover
in Europe will exceed that of fixed telephone traffic and the
penetration of Internet access through mobile will exceed that of
fixed access. It is expected that the new value added services will be
Internet-based and the IP traffic will outweigh the amount of
traditional ISDN based telephone traffic. The transition from the
existing telecommunications services to mobile and Internet based ones
will change the service infrastructure as well as the customer and
service management structures. In wireless communications there are
several new standards being developed and implemented to improve the
data transmission rate over radio channels, to combine both voice,
packet data and multimedia services in the terminals and to improve
the service quality and usability. Narrow band packet radio standards
such as General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and i-Mode are already
operative and broadband IMT-2000 standards, also called as Third
Generation (3G) Mobile, have been developed in Japan, Europe and US.
At the same time Wireless LAN and Bluetooth technologies mature and
provide short-range data access to terminal devices. The emerging new
technologies create opportunities not only to incumbent teleoperators
but also to new network operators, IT companies and new service and
content providers.
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IFIP TC6/WG6.8 Working Conference on Personal Wireless Communications (PWC’2001), August 8–10, 2001, Lappeenranta, Finland
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9780306470011
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2020
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Springer Nature
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