3. Challenges

3.1 Voice, data and audiovisual convergence

With UMTS in Europe, and more generally with the IMT2000 project, three independent sectors of the communications world are set to converge:

the IT sector, with data transmission becoming a widely-used basic service, whereas GSM, until the arrival of GPRS, had relegated data services to the status of costly and relatively inconvenient access options;
the video sector, which is totally absent from second-generation networks;
the voice sector, the traditional vector for first- and second-generation network services.

One of the major challenges of UMTS is to get the players in these different...

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References

(1) - DUARTE (B.) - UMTS : Défis et perspectives. - Revue des Télécommunications Alcatel, 1 ^er trimestre 2001.
(2) - LESCUYER (P.) - UMTS : Les origines, l'architecture, la norme....

Standardization

GSM Release 99 Specifications (Release 99). - 3GPP TS 01.01 V8.1.0 - 2000-12
Principles of circuit telecommunication services supported by a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) (Release 99). - 3G TS 22.001 V3.2.0 - 2000-03
Circuit Bearer Services supported by a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) (Release 99). - 3G TS 22.002 V3.5.0 - 2000-10
Circuit Teleservices supported by a Public Land Mobile Network...

Regulations

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