Reviews Book Description Translate broadband wireless mumbo-jumbo into clear business terms No guide tackles and clarifies the chaotic acronym-ridden world of broadband wireless better than Wireless Broadband Handbook. Best-selling telecom author Regis "Bud" Bates has the formula to give you the "instant expertise" you need to compete and win in this rapidly advancing area. He asks the logical, business-based questions that are important to you about this hot new technology, and he provides the answers-- minus the techspeak. You¿ll find product photos and descriptions and analysis of key systems and options for profitable business, technical, and career decision making. You get lucid information on: * Applications and implementations of technologies * Regulatory and standards developments * Generic pricing and business models * LMDS/MMDS/WAP/GPRS * Wireless IP * GSM around the world * What¿s going on with WAP * What changes to expect from 3G (and why it is sometimes called UMTS)
From the Back Cover UNDERSTANDING--AND SURVIVING THE WIRELESS EXPLOSION JUST GOT A LOT EASIER!
With the wireless broadband market expected to surge from 1.8 billion this year to more than 13 billion by the year 2003, understanding and learning the basics of the new broadband technologies fast may soon be a matter of survival rather than choice. And best-selling author Regis "Bud" Bates--whose earlier books are telecom classics--has exactly the right approach, sytle, and real-world experience to help anyone...