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Here's a forward-looking new book that realistically forecasts the changes in mobile communications over the next 20 years to help you make informed decisions and develop successful strategies that address the future challenges of this industry. You get specific recommendations on which technological areas organizations should concentrate on, along with insightful discussions on technology and the limits of efficiency, standardization, radio spectrum, economics, industry structure, user requirements, and other constraints and drivers.
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Table of contents
- Contents vii
- Preface xvii
- Part I: Why it is worthwhile 1
- 1 Why forecast the future? 3
- Part II: What drives the future 11
- 2 What might the end user want? 13
- 3 The pieces of the puzzle 25
- Part III: What limits the future 81
- 4 Overview of technology development 83
- 5 Nontechnical constraints on the future 103
- 6 Organizations and strategy 139
- Part IV: Views of the future 157
- 7 How a 20-year forecast might have looked in 1980 159
- 8 Forecasting the future: a technologist’s view 179
- 9 A bold view of the future 223
- 10 Realizing the mobile information society 233
- 11 Learning from the past 245
- 12 When my kids are in their twenties 271
- 13 Communications cocktail 283
- 14 Mapping the future of convergence and spectrum management 303
- 15 Summary of the views of the experts 317
- 16 A discussion of the key issues 327
- 17 A future road map 371
- List of acronyms 409
- About the authors 425
- Index 421
