Mobile Telecommunications Standards - UMTS, GSM, TETRA, and ERMES

Gain a thorough understanding of the dynamics of today's mobile telecommunications standards with this unique new resource. The book examines the development and adoption trajectories of major European standards, such as UMTS, GSM, ERMES, and TETRA. It presents a framework that analyzes the factors that influenced each standard's level of success, and includes the most-comprehensive case studies on these standards.

You get detailed coverage of European mobile telecommunications regulations, policies and practices of standardization bodies like the ETSI and ITU, the economics of telecommunications standards, and the use of intellectual property rights. Easily understandable, even without a technical background, the book examines the prospects for the various standards in the field, the emerging network economy and what it means for telecommunications, and how to participate successfully in the development of standards.

Contents

• Ch. 1 A Search for Success and Failure Factors with Mobile Standards 1
• Ch. 2 Early Telecommunications Developments and Market Structures 13
• Ch. 3 Relations Between Actors in the PTT Era 49
• Ch. 4 Telecommunications Policy and Regulation in the EC 87
• Ch. 5 The Institutional Setting for Standardization 121
• Ch. 6 The Economics of Compatibility Standards 183
• Ch. 7 Intellectual Property Rights and Standards 221
• Ch. 8 Case Study: The Second-Generation Mobile Telephony Standard GSM 261
• Ch. 9 Case Study: The Digital Mobile Radio Standard TETRA 363
• Ch. 10 Case Study: The High-Speed Paging Standard ERMES 413
• Ch. 11 Case Study: The Third-Generation Mobile Telephony Standard UMTS 453
• Ch. 12 Analysis of the Cases 499
• Ch. 13 Conclusions and Discussion 557
• App. A Design Characteristics of Selected GSM Demonstration Systems 575
• App. B IPR Events Relating to UMTS 577
• App. C Overview of Terminology for Third-Generation Networks 583
• App. D Overview of Digital Cellular Standards Worldwide 585
• App. E Chronological List of EC Legislation and Communications 587
• List of Acronyms 595
• About the Author 603
• Index