European personal communications using microcells

There are at present some 2.5 million users of mobile radio services in the UK, this figure is expected to rise to over 5 million by 1992, with growth expected to bring this to over 10 million by the year 2000. Similar growth in Europe is expected to give a European market of over 50 million by this time. This mass market can only be satisfied if two conditions are met. A shift is required from the present-day individual communications networks to networks giving integrated access to cellular, cordless, private mobile, paging and satellite services. Combined with suitable intelligent network databases and personal numbering this will usher in the era of personal communications. To cope with the expected teletraffic demand, a shift must also be made from the present network infrastructures towards truly high capacity networks such as can be provided by microcellular system engineering techniques