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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

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0G

■ 1946 MTS

■ 1962 IMTS

Connected to the public

phone network

Has its own telephone

number
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1G

■ 1982

■ Analog cell phones

■ Voice traffic only

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2G

■ 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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3G

■ 2002

■ UMTS

■ HSDPA

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

videoconferencing
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4G

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

■ WiMAX
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Generation Overview

Technology 1G 2G 2.5G 3G 4G
First design 1970 1980 1985 1990 2000
Implementat 1982 1991 1999 2002 2010?
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Service Analog Digital Packaged Broadband IP-oriented
voice voice, SMS data data up to 2 unlimited
mb/s multimedia
data
Standards AMPS TDMA, GPRS, EV-DO, WiMAX,
CDMA, GSM EDGE W-CDMA, HSOPA
HSDPA
Data 1.9 kbps 14.4 kbps 384 kbps 2 mbps 200 mbps
bandwidth
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 possibilities
Technology 1G 2G 2.5G 3G 4G

First design 1970 1980 1985 1990 2000

Implementat 1982 1991 1999 2002 2010?

ion
Application Analog Digital MMS, WAP True HD-TV
voice voice, SMS internet, streaming?
videocalling
, mobile TV,
high speed
downloadin
Standards AMPS TDMA, GPRS, EDGE EV-DO,
g WiMAX,
CDMA, GSM W-CDMA, HSOPA
HSDPA

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

Thank you for your attention

Are there any questions?

VRiSBI International Research
Project

Innovation and ICT - Comparing

Ireland with The Netherlands

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