UMTS, the mobile multimedia vision for IMT 2000: a focus on standardization

Author

Huber, Josef F. ; Weiler, Dirk ; Brand, Hermann

Volume

38

Issue

9

fYear

2000

fDate

9/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

129

Lastpage

136

Abstract

Cellular mobile telecommunications and the World Wide Web are growing at an exciting pace. In the year 1999 both GSM and the Internet reached more than 200 million registered users globally. Thus, it may be expected that users will demand the combination of mobility and multimedia services in a foreseeable time frame. Multimedia content increases and differentiates with the changing information society, and an even richer variety of audio, visual, and text-based information will be required in the future. UMTS, the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System, a member of the IMT-2000 family of third-generation systems, will provide these services. UMTS standardization has set a new paradigm of timely market-driven standardization in a global partnership of standardization bodies

Keywords

cellular radio; multimedia communication; telecommunication standards; telecommunication traffic; GSM; IMT 2000; Internet; UMTS standardization; Universal Mobile Telecommunications System; World Wide Web; audio information; cellular mobile telecommunications; mobile multimedia vision; mobility services; multimedia content; multimedia services; standardization bodies; standards; text-based information; third-generation systems; visual information; 3G mobile communication; Electronic mail; GSM; Internet telephony; Mobile communication; Standardization; Telecommunication traffic; Teleconferencing; Web and internet services; Web sites;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.868152

Filename

868152