The Mobile Multimedia Business
Chapter One
Introduction
1.1 THE 3G MOBILE PATHFINDERS: EXISTING WIRELESS
COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
The first practical examples of mobile communications were used in many countries like
the USA, the UK and Germany in military services, and played a significant role in the
First World War to transfer important information from the front to headquarters to take
further actions. Good and secure wireless communications were an important need for all
military services - army, navy and air force. In this respect, the Second World War was a big
experimental battlefield for the development and evolution of mobile radio. It was in the
interests of governments that after the Second World War the military investment should
be paid back by civilian use, and all western European countries started their so-called first
generation of mobile communication networks.
More civilised was the introduction of maritime radio, mainly in the UK at the end of the
19th century. There was an urgent need for better communications at sea, not only for diplomacy
and national security, but also in emergency cases. Certainly, the military services were in
the driving seat regarding the development of wireless mobile.
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