Wireless Communications: Networks, Technologies, and Business Issues

Format: Softcover, 308 pages
ISBN: 0-933217-44-7
Price: $396

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. The Economics, Standards, and Markets of Wireless

• Mega-Trends in the Wireless Industry
• Economics of Wireless Short Messaging
• Cellular and PCS Competition
• The Wireless Industry and the Coming PCS Revolution
• Key Business Factors to Achieving Success in the Wireless Arena
• The Future of Mobile Computing
• Growth and Opportunity from a Wireless Start
• The Business Case for Distributed Wireless Switching
• Examining the Impact of Convergence of Wireless, Wireline, and CATV on Customer Care
• Business Processes and Support Systems
• Wireless Strategies for Success
• Satellites: Issues and Challenges
• The Satellite Revolution

2. Network Architectures, Management, Operations, and Technologies

• Over-the-Air Customer Care
• Coverage Enhancement through Smart Antenna Technology
• Implementing a UPT Service in the North American Network
• Integration of IN in GSM Networks
• The Role of New Technologies in Wireless Access Network Evolution
• Wireless Number Portability: Industry Consensus Solution and Status
• Data Capability of the PCS Technologies
• Wireless Web Access Technologies
• Wireless Broadband Modems
• Wireless Operations Structures: Today and Future
• Wireless Data Applications and Observations
• A PCS Success Story
• High-Frequency Broadband Wireless Networks

3. The Wireless Intelligent Network

• Wireless Intelligent Network: Basic Concepts
• Wireless Intelligent Network: Gateway to Growth of Enhanced Wireless Services
• Ensuring Success in WIN Service Development
• Overview of the WIN Market
• IN: A Fixed Wireless Perspective
• WIN Deployment
• The Current State of Wireless IN

4. The Wireless Local Loop

• Wireless Local Loop: Economics, Technologies, and Markets
• Wireless Local Loop in Emerging Markets
• PACS for Wireless Loop Applications
• CDMA in the Wireless Local Loop

5. Wireless Fraud Prevention

• Wireless Fraud
• The Holistic Approach to Subscription Fraud Management
• Wireless Fraud Management
• Recommendations for a Cellular Security Key Management Framework
• Fraud Control: A Layered Approach
• Wireless Fraud in Asia Pacific: A Few Trends and a Case Study

6. Wireless Services

• Wireless Prepaid Services: The Six Billion-Dollar Opportunity
• Deploying Enhanced Subscriber Services and IN: Why and How
• Wireless Enhanced 911
• Wireless Office Services
• Short Messaging Service
• Consumer Preferences in Wireless Communications Services
• Object-Oriented Call Models for Rapid Service Deployment
• Wireless Multimedia Alternatives