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Informationen zum Autor Vern Fotheringham is the Managing Director of IP Broadband Ltd and is an internationally recognized leader and entrepreneur in wireless broadband communications. He is widely credited with launching several landmark broadband ventures worldwide. Chetan Sharma is President of Chetan Sharma Consulting and a leading strategist in the wireless industry. He has served as an advisor to senior executive management of several Fortune 100 companies in the wireless space and has authored five books. Klappentext "This is as comprehensive a book on wireless broadband as I have seen. The authors address the most important issues facing the players in the wireless ecosystem in great detail and provide a very thoughtful analysis."-Steve Elfman, President, Sprint Nextel"An insightful book that takes a refreshing multidimensional approach to the wireless broadband industry."-Dr. Hyun-Oh Yoo, former CEO, SK Communications, CEO, SKT Holdings America"Comprehensive and insightful coverage of the complex factors affecting the growth of the wireless broadband industry."-Dr. Nitin J. Shah, Cofounder, Personal Broadband Industry Association"This book accurately captures both the historical and holistic perspectives on key market forces at work and their interactions that will lead to fulfilling the broadband connectivity requirements of the market."-Umesh Amin, President, Wireless, Intellectual Ventures"The authors combine their considerable background and foresight to create a thought-provoking piece that provides both historical perspective and insight for the future."-Brooks Harlow, Partner, Miller Nash LLP"A well-written book, a great discussion of recent history, and provides insight into the complexity of what's to come."-Dr. C. R. (Rick) Baugh, IEEE Fellow"This book is a great overview of the issues relating to our industry and should be of significant value to readers who are curious about how we got where we are, and the lessons we should have learned along the way as an industry whose fate was and is tied so closely to the risk capital market."-Bill Rouhana, former CEO and Chairman, WinstarUtilizing a reader-friendly approach that minimizes industry jargon wherever possible, Wireless Broadband: Conflict and Convergence clearly explains the business, regulatory, and technology issues of the future market for wireless services.The book covers:* Broadband and the information society* Drivers of broadband consumption* Global wireless market analysis* Broadband IP core networks* Convergence finally arrives* Contention and conflict: regulatory, political, financial, and standardsComplemented with more than eighty illustrations, this book provides unparalleled insight into the emerging technologies, service delivery options, applications, and digital content that will influence and shape the next phase of the wireless revolution. Zusammenfassung Presents a powerful case that wireless technology itself will force current practice to change in the coming years. Puts current and near-future developments into a historical perspective. Analyzes the current and future state of wireless broadband technology and the industry surrounding it. A crucial tool for telecommunications decision makers. . Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword xiii Acknowledgments xvii List of Figures xxi INTRODUCTION 1 1 WHERE WE ARE-WIRELESS MEETS THE BROADBAND INTERNET 5 Where We Are 5 How We Got Here: Reintegration of the Telecom Oligopoly and Cracks in the Walled Gardens 6 Flexibility Comes to Wireless Spectrum 22 The Wireless Technology Diaspora 23 Cellular Carriers: Stuck on Stickiness 26 Managed Network Services: The Outsourced Network 30 Enhanced Broadband Voice 31 Fixed Mobile Convergence 33 Boundary Blurring 34 References 35 2 BROADBAND AND THE ...
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Foreword. Acknowledgments. List of Figures. INTRODUCTION. 1 WHERE WE ARE WIRELESS MEETS THE BROADBAND INTERNET. 2 BROADBAND AND THE INFORMATION SOCIETY. 3 GLOBAL WIRELESS MARKET ANALYSIS. 4 THE VIRTUAL DISPLACES THE PHYSICAL. 5 CONVERGENCE FINALLY ARRIVES. 6 DRIVERS OF BROADBAND CONSUMPTION. 7 THE EMERGING INFLUENCE OF THE COMPUTER INDUSTRY. 8 ALWAYS BEST CONNECTED. 9 BROADBAND IP CORE NETWORKS. 10 WIDEBAND 3G TO BROADBAND 4G COLLISION AND CONVERGENCE OF STANDARDS. 11 RADIO TECHNOLOGY MOVING THE GOAL POSTS. 12 CONTENTION AND CONFLICT REGULATORY, POLITICAL, FINANCIAL, AND STANDARDS BATTLES. 13 CONCLUSION. A WIRELESS BROADBAND GLOSSARY. B A SCENARIO OF A BROADBAND WIRELESS CUSTOMER,CIRCA 2012. C SPECTRUM TABLES WIRELESS BROADBAND. About the Authors.
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"[The authors] provide an interesting historical perspective of the telecoms industry looking at how it has developed since the break up of the Bell monopoly in 1956 .An extremely informative, insightful and thought provoking volume." ( Engineering and Technology , February 2009)
