Publisher's Synopsis
This comprehensive overview brings the reader up-to-date on new technologies for low-speed data, speech and broadband communications, competing standards, adjacent technologies, new generation networks and future developments. It covers all EU countries, Norway, Switzerland, the USA and Japan.;The text includes up-to-date discussions on standards such as TETRA/Tetrapol, POGSAC/ERMES/FLEX and W-CDMA, several adjacent technologies such as VSAT, (d-)GSP and DAB broadcasting, and US and Japanese standards such as IS-95, CDMA, D-AMPS, FLEX/ReFlex and PDC.
