Consumers have pressured service providers who, in turn, have pressured equipment manufacturers to design wireless communications systems that are more reliable while simultaneously demanding significantly higher data rates. This new generation of radios provides high performance, long Me and zero maintenance. Although it is costly for service providers to replace a phase-locked oscillator, the service outage associated with an oscillator failure can be disastrous because of end-user dissatisfaction, which ultimately results in subscriber churn.
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