Third-generation radio access standards

摘要

Second-generation radio access ahs been a major success story for the global telecommunications industry, delivering telephony an slow bit-rate data services to mobile end-users. The growth rate of second-generation mobile telephony indicates that mobile communication is well on its way toward full mass-market penetration. Thanks to the tremendous growth of the Internet, multimedia is also penetrating the mass market at an explo- sive pace. Combined, the digital cellular footprint and the multimedia ser- vices of the Internet form the basis of tomorrow's integrated wireless communication and multimedia access system.