Abstract
This report introduces managers, investors and technical specialists to mobile
cellular communications technologies for voice and data.
Key points include:
- We provide detailed, independent, descriptions and analysis of the major
2G, 2.5G, 2.75G and 3G technologies, including GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS WCDMA,
HSDPA, HSUPA, CDMA2000 and EV-DO.
- We also discuss SIMs, the IP Media Subsystem (IMS), VoIP, Push-to-Talk
over Cellular (PoC), mobile device operating systems, femtocell
‘home-base-stations' , Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC) and the emerging 4G
technologies known as UMTS Long Term Evolution (LTE) and CDMA2000 Ultra Mobile
Broadband (UWB).
- The prospects of UMTS developing not just to dominate its direct
competitor CDMA2000, but to prevail over mobile and perhaps fixed WiMAX is
also covered.