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Starting from a sizeable investment in European R&D, always with a subsidiarity and consensus building perspective, resulting directly in crucial contributions to standardization both at the European (ETSI) and global (ITU) level, we build the case for the critical importance of the regulatory issues that make or brake a market (availability of spectrum, licensing, pan-European services, etc — and obviously the “single standard” versus “multiple standards” issue). Given the mobile explosion all over the world, and particularly in Europe, and the evolution towards mobile/wireless multimedia applications, we also analyze, in the context of ITU and WRC 2000, the anticipated need for additional spectrum for Third Generation in the medium to long term.
Directorate-General XIII, Information Society: Telecommunications, Markets, Technologies — Innovation and Exploitation of Research
Directorate-General XIII, Directorate F — Essential Information Society Technologies and Infrastructures, Unit F4 — Mobile and personal communications and systems, including satellite systems and services.
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Verrue, R., Pereira, J. (2002). Ensuring the Success of Third Generation. In: Ganesh, R., Pahlavan, K., Zvonar, Z. (eds) Wireless Multimedia Network Technologies. The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 524. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47330-5_1
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