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Summary: Clear and informative
Review: At last! A UMTS text you can read and understand. This book gave me enough detail to understand the standards and where they are going. The book has many diagrams and a list of all the features The features also have an explanantion of them in a language I could understand. If you want a 'quick starter' so that on Friday you open the book and on Monday you can 'speak' UMTS then this is the book you want.
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Summary: Useful compilation of standards, if you need them
Review: If you like to read standards or have to in the course of your work, this book offers a useful and succinct compilation. Other than that, there is nothing to recommend this book as it does not help improve your understanding. Then again, this is not the kind of book which people who do not have to work with standards will want to read.There is a short chapter on cdma2000 at the end.
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Summary: Informative but not lucid
Review: Its a good book for starters and people getting to know the subject of wcdma and umts. But, the language is very bland and looks more of an ieee paper. Recommended for people who are indireclty associated with umts or similar products.
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Summary: Read "a different" book before this one.
Review: Otherwise it might be somehow confusing. This book is a must for professionals as another reviewer stated but it is not very suitable as the first book on UMTS technologies. This book serves best as supplementary reading. For example new-beginner readers might get confused talkink about SIP at the first chapter before explaining W-CDMA and core-network layout. Anyway, this book contains wealth of information on UMTS technologies and warmly recommended for serious readers.
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Summary: Not for newbies, must for pros
Review: This book delivers exactly what it promises: a profound, compact and clear description of WCDMA for UMTS. The reader is expected to understand quite advanced concepts of mobile communications, hence it is not a good book for managers who want to know what 3G is all about nor for undergraduate students who want to learn cellular system basics. It is an excellent book for experienced network planners, protocol designers or research engineers, for example, who want to move from 2G to 3G. Simple test: if you don't know what are Erlang-B, orthogonal codes or layered protocol architecture, you want to study them first from another book.
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Summary: A Full Picture of UMTS
Review: This book is the only one available now about UMTS, which based on 3GPP standard and show you some simulation results of research. It is no doubt this book gives a full picture for a technical person who is interested in UMTS system. It is worth to start from this book and keep one as a reference, no mater how many books about UMTS will be published later.
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Summary: Good starting point to understand WCDMA
Review: This book provides a good introduction to 3GPP Release '99 and helps you navigate the standard. The main focus is on the DS-CDMA radio interface. The book is useful for people with a knowledge of GSM wanting to know about WCDMA. If there is any weakness in the book it is the lack of coverage of Services & Applications.
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Summary: A good investment
Review: This book provides essential information on WCDMA.
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Summary: Tech made Easy
Review: This is the review of the book released earlier in 2000. The authors are well versed with the ongoing tech trends as Nokia is the world's leader in developing WCDMA 3G equipments.
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Summary: umts
Review: With UMTS you must read what you can get - unfortunately what you can get is not aleays what you want - so with this book. Although the authors seem well informed, they are not god communicators - their explanations are alternatively trivial or incomprehensible, their diagrams, in most cases copied slavishly from the specifications, explain nothing. Perhaps this book is useful as a reference after the subject is comprehended. Comprehension does not lie here.
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