Innovations of mobile communication standards and their applications for telecom companies

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Study Project Economics & Informatics 2007

INNOVATIONS OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION STANDARDS AND

THEIR APPLICATIONS FOR TELECOM COMPANIES

What are innovations of mobile communication standards and their applications for telecom companies?

Eveline van den Heuvel and Cosmas Fonville

0G0G

1946 MTS

1962 IMTS

Connected to the public phone network

Has its own telephone number

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1G1G

1982

Analog cell phones

Voice traffic only

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2G2G

1991– Digital networks– SMS

1999 2.5G– GPRS

– Data rate up to 128 kb/s– EDGE

– Data rate up to 384 kb/s

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3G3G

2002

UMTS

HSDPA

Internet, e-mail, fax, e-commerce, music, video clips, and videoconferencing

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4G4G

Expected in 2010Mobile multimedia, Anytime anywhere, Global support, Integrated wireless solution, Customized personal service

WiMAX

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Generation OverviewGeneration Overview

Technology 1G 2G 2.5G 3G 4GFirst design 1970 1980 1985 1990 2000Implementation 1982 1991 1999 2002 2010?Service Analog voice Digital voice,

SMSPackaged data Broadband

data up to 2 mb/s

IP-oriented unlimited multimedia data

Standards AMPS TDMA, CDMA, GSM

GPRS, EDGE EV-DO, W-CDMA, HSDPA

WiMAX, HSOPA

Data bandwidth 1.9 kbps 14.4 kbps 384 kbps 2 mbps 200 mbps

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Why Innovation Takes Place

Why are these standards being improved?– Higher demands of applications– Comparison with fixed networks

Limiting factors

Where is it going?

More bandwitdh, more possibilitiesTechnology 1G 2G 2.5G 3G 4G

First design 1970 1980 1985 1990 2000

Implementation 1982 1991 1999 2002 2010?

Application Analog voice Digital voice, SMS

MMS, WAP True internet, videocalling, mobile TV, high speed

downloading

HD-TV streaming?

Standards AMPS TDMA, CDMA, GSM

GPRS, EDGE EV-DO, W-CDMA,

HSDPA

WiMAX, HSOPA

Data bandwidth 1.9 kbps 14.4 kbps 384 kbps 2 mbps 200 mbps

Higher Demands of Applications

New applications– Add more functionality to a device

Increase in bandwitdh usage– Is this an innovation driver?– Few applications use the available bandwidth– Not enough users of an application– Phone performance

Fixed networks

Comparison fixed and mobile network performance

Fixed has always been faster

First a big gap between speeds, now the gap becomes smaller

Mobile data standards and applications in the future

The ‘speed gap’ will become even more smaller

Faster mobile devices

Applications usable on all mobile devices

Future research

Will mobile internet replace fixed internet?

Questions

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