The Future of Wireless: Business Strategies, Broadband Technologies, and Network Operations

Format: Spiral-Bound; 348 pages
ISBN: 1-931695-21-0
Price: $495.00

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Features

• Characterizes the business drivers and strategies involved in deploying and operating wireless networks
• Outlines how operators can reduce their total cost of ownership and increase their overall return on investment
• Evaluates growth projections for the wireless data services market
• Focuses on the advantages and disadvantages of implementing a fixed wireless network
• Highlights current Wi-Fi markets and trends
• Explores mobile prepaid services for voice, short message service (SMS), multimedia message service (MMS)
• Discusses how wireless operators provide wireless voice and data services to new and remote areas
• Explores the wireless evolution into rich multimedia services, including messaging, mobile video, and multimodal services
• Analyzes the challenges and benefits of utilizing wireless digital subscriber line (DSL) technology to deliver broadband access
• Explores how NLOS broadband wireless access systems can serve the rural market
• Analyzes local multipoint distribution service (LMDS) as a broadband wireless access technology and revenue generator
• Examines the emergence of ultra wideband (UWB) technology
• Analyzes the business case for RF/fiber extension
• Discusses the role of ENUM as a technology
• Identifies means to maintain optimal QoS in wireless networks
• Examines customer churn and retention in the wireless market
• Highlights current wireless standards and the direction of the regulatory environment