John Wiley & Sons, - 2003, - 615 pages.
This work offers the reader more than an evolutionary technical strategy of GSM’s transition to 3G. It also provides a set of benchmarks for a core evaluation of the merits of EDGE as a central component of the wireless industry’s fulfilment of its promise for higher degrees of service and convenience. This process is already being established, as evidenced by the first live EDGE data call completed by Nokia and AT&T Wireless on November 1, 2001. The connection of an EDGE handset with a laptop to the Inteet for web browsing and streaming applications marked the first successful completion using EDGE 8-PSK modulation in both directions in the air interface. Indeed, it is another sign that EDGE will flourish in this new billion-dollar marketplace as a leading 3G technology in the Americas owing to its performance, cost, interoperability and ease of transformation. EDGE will outlast the neigh-sayers and in the long term, EDGE will far exceed expectations. And just as electricity, the automobile and the television changed our lives, EDGE will change our lives by providing 3G services for the masses.
This work offers the reader more than an evolutionary technical strategy of GSM’s transition to 3G. It also provides a set of benchmarks for a core evaluation of the merits of EDGE as a central component of the wireless industry’s fulfilment of its promise for higher degrees of service and convenience. This process is already being established, as evidenced by the first live EDGE data call completed by Nokia and AT&T Wireless on November 1, 2001. The connection of an EDGE handset with a laptop to the Inteet for web browsing and streaming applications marked the first successful completion using EDGE 8-PSK modulation in both directions in the air interface. Indeed, it is another sign that EDGE will flourish in this new billion-dollar marketplace as a leading 3G technology in the Americas owing to its performance, cost, interoperability and ease of transformation. EDGE will outlast the neigh-sayers and in the long term, EDGE will far exceed expectations. And just as electricity, the automobile and the television changed our lives, EDGE will change our lives by providing 3G services for the masses.