Preface: What is a complete wireless professional? -- Format of this book -- Some interesting history -- Early history -- Some key milestones in mobile radio history -- Recent history -- Mobile radio systems -- The basics of mobile radio -- Basic principles of propagation -- Radio spectrum utilization -- Basic system design -- System overview -- Voice encoding -- Secure transmission -- Overcoming channel imperfections -- Frequency and phase modulation -- Clock recovery -- Carrier recovery -- Multiple access -- Packet and circuit transmission -- Theoretical capacity of mobile radio systems -- Cellular radio technologies -- The range of cellular systems -- GSM -- System architecture -- Locating a subscriber and starting calls -- Transmission within GSM -- cdmaOne -- Other systems -- Private mobile radio systems -- Simple private radio systems -- Tetra -- System operation -- Technical parameters -- Other systems -- Other mobile radio systems -- Cordless systems -- Overview of cordless telephony -- Digital enhanced cordless telephone -- Personal handiphone system -- Wireless local loop systems -- Introduction to wireless local loop -- Access technologies: radio and cable -- WLL and cellular: the differences -- Technologies for WLL and LMDS/MVDS -- Satellite systems for telephony -- Concept -- Economics of satellite systems -- TV, radio, and other systems -- Interfacing with fixed networks -- The need for fixed networks -- Fixed network architectures -- Fixed network protocols -- Fixed mobile convergence.