Integration Of UMTS And B-ISDN: Is It Possible Or Desirable?
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INTRODUCTION
In the future, existing fixed networks will be complemented by mobile networks
with similar numbers of users. These mobile users will have identical
requirements and expectations to the fixed users, for on-demand applications of
telecommunications requiring high bit-rate channels. It ....
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.... initiative. The aim of UMTS is to implement terminal mobility and
personal mobility within its systems, providing a single world mobile standard.
Outside Europe, UMTS is now known as International Mobile Telecommunications
2000 (IMT2000), which replaces its previous name of Future Public Land Mobile
Telecommunication System (FPLMTS). [BUIT95]
UMTS is envisaged as providing the infrastructure needed to support a wide range
of multimedia digital services, or teleservices [CHEU94], requ ....
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