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Third-generation Mobile and the UMTS Licences

In: Rating Management’s Effectiveness

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  • Dimitris N. Chorafas

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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.

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  • Dimitris N. Chorafas, 2004. "Third-generation Mobile and the UMTS Licences," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Rating Management’s Effectiveness, chapter 10, pages 225-251, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-00590-7_10
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230005907_10
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