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Describes the features, touts the advantages, and points out the limitations of the Global System for Mobile communications, a digital cellular communications network now used in over 120 countries and provides mobile voice communication, fax, and text messaging. Assumes some general familiarity with cellular and personal communication networks, but primarily addressed to non-technical potential customers. No bibliography. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Fast becoming the world's standard, GSM is poised to dominate the presently murky, multi-standard soup of the U.S. digital wireless telecommunications market. With "superphone" linkability to other digital devices, GSM offers not only seamless cross-border solutions, but also a new cornucopia of consumer services. This first applications-oriented guideÑlong on examples and low on math, exposes both the technology and the business sides of this important telecom phenom. Packed with lists of equipment suppliers and other key data, and written by two of the world's premier experts, this book is a must-have for anyone with a bet on the telecom game.
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