Title :
PCN evolution towards third generation
Author_Institution :
Mercury Personal Commun., Borehamwood, UK
Abstract :
This paper discusses factors that will influence the development of the UMTS standard, ETSI has planned that the standard be completed by about 1999 with service being launched at the start of the next decade. By this time, substantial investments will have been made in deploying second generation systems and there will be large numbers of customers for their services
Keywords :
mobile radio systems; personal communication networks; radiotelephony; standards; technological forecasting; ETSI; PCN evolution; UMTS standard; Universal Mobile Telecommunications System; development; investments; numbers of customers; third generation;
Conference_Titel :
Mobile Communications in the Year 2000, IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
London
