Introduction - 3rd Generation Wireless Basics, industry terms; cellular systems - history, system overview, basic operation, world system descriptions; digital wireless technology - radio channel structure, signalling, system parameters; North American TDMA - history, system overview, system attributes, basic operation, 3rd generation evolution; code division multiple access - history, system overview, system attributes, basic operation, 3rd generation evolution; Global System for Mobile (GSM) Communications; wireless office telephone systems; 3rd Generation Mobile Telephones; 3rd Generation Networks; wireless economics - wireless telephone costs, system equipment costs, network capital costs, operational costs; future advances of wireless technologies for 4th generation systems.
