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GSM, GPRS and EDGE Performance: Evolution Toward 3G/UMTS

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The book describes the technology evolution of GSM. It contains trial and simulation results that are very usefull for understanding the technology capabilitites. It is by far the best book about GSM and GPRS technologies I have seen. It is also highly recomendable for anybody working in the mobile telecommunication bussiness, due to its practical approach.

This book provides a comprehensive description of the GSM AMR, GPRS and EDGE technologies. Additionally it provides a deep analysis of the performance of each technology, providing usefull deployment and dimmensioning guidelines. Finally it compares these with other co-existing cellular technologies.
Definitely a must, specially for cellular operators requiring to deploy GSM, AMR, GPRS and EDGE and expecting to maximise the performance of their networks.
The reading is very easy and the book takes you through all the topics of interest through a nice thread.

I don't agree with the previous reviewer. It is a serious book with wealth of information and it is not a marketing info book. It covers GSM basics, detailed GPRS and EDGE information and an intro on 3G technologies. GPRS and EDGE chapters particularly good and contain a lot of simulation results also. Warmly recommended.

I cannot recommend this book enough. We have several copies in our company library, all of which are out. Permanently. Today, when requested to return a copy I had, I learned a new BCCH optimisation technique while reading a page in the elevator to the library....
Go get it!

All my CDMA Engineers really like this book

Not a very interesting book. Reading it is like reading pure marketing material from Nokia.