Broadband Wireless Communications Business
An introduction to the Costs and Benefits of New Technologies
Chapter One
Background
Broadband wireless communications technologies promise the freedom of being constantly
connected to the internet at high speeds without the limitation of connection cables. There is
certainly a need for such a service and, therefore, there is a market. The size of the market
depends on the cost of the technologies that can realise the service. As in any business, this
cost is passed on to the end-user in the form of user equipment (e.g. mobile phone) price
and usage tariffs. The lower the end-user cost is, the greater the market size becomes.
But how have we arrived at this point? Why have these technologies been developed?
Why are there so many of them? (See Box: Broadband wireless technologies.) And what
factors determine which technologies will ultimately emerge to dominate the market?
Some broadband wireless technologies
* WCDMA, standardised by 3GPP
* CDMA-2000, standardised by 3GPP2
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