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Future Directions for Mobile Communications Business, Technology and Research

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This paper presents a picture of the mobile communications market and expected further development of systems and technologies. This is done with evaluating the market needs and reflecting these to available technology as well as technological opportunities. Despite of apparently advanced state of the technology and business, both market and technical solutions are concluded to likely experience further radical changes. The need for wireless capacity is two orders of magnitude more than what combined 2G and 3G would provide. A meaningful research objective to achieve is not in any single topic but will emerge from combining the needs of market and society with the opportunities offered by plurality of technologies. This opportunity starts form explorations aiming to a deeper understanding of the spatial propagation effects and ways to deploy them.

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Rapeli, J. Future Directions for Mobile Communications Business, Technology and Research. Wireless Personal Communications 17, 155–173 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011244800491

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