Brave New Unwired World

ALEX LIGHTMAN is cofounder and CEO of Charmed Technology (www.charmed.com), an MIT Media Lab spin-off. He is also a producer of the company's Brave New Unwired World wireless technology fashion show taking place at Internet World trade shows across the globe. A pioneer in Internet entertainment, Lightman has produced more than fifty Internet-related projects for a variety of clients, including Paramount Pictures, CNN, CNET, CKS, and Silicon Graphics. In addition to overseeing operations at Charmed Technology, Lightman has been a contributing editor to Red Herring magazine and IntellectualCapital.com. In 1999, Lightman was named "Up-and-Comer" by Forbes magazine and was recognized by Chief Executive magazine as one of ten "CEOs of the Future." In addition, Animation magazine has crowned him a "cyberguru." Lightman is a 1983 graduate of MIT. WILLIAM ROJAS is a director and founder of William Benton & Associates, Ltd., a Hong Kong-based business development and industry research consulting firm assisting companies in constructing business strategies in the IT/telecoms/Internet sectors. Over the last five years, Rojas has provided strategic, business development, market research, and systems engineering consulting services for a number of world-class firms, including Ascend/Lucent, Cisco, British Telecom, Hong Kong Land, NEC, Omron, Mitsubishi Corporation, the Japan Import Export Bank, and the National Bank of Ukraine. He is also a contributing senior telecoms analyst for the Economist Intelligence Unit, specializing in the Japanese telecommunications industry. Rojas has worked for a number of large firms, including General Electric, IBM, Reuters, and Nomura Research Institute.

Preface. Acknowledgments. PART I: INTRODUCTION. The Path to 4G: Major Technology Trends to Watch. PART II: THE WIRELESS MARKET. A Brief History of the Cellular Industry--1975 to 2001. Radio Spectrum - Managing a Scarce Resource. Digital Signal Processors. 2.5 G Systems: An Interim Solution. The Wireless Internet Services. Third Generation Systems. PART III: PERVASIVE COMPUTING. The Incredible Shrinking Computer. The Power of Network. Molecular Scale Electronics and Quantum Computing. The Digital Big Bang, Quantum MEchanics, and the Cosmos. Wearable Computers and Wireless Ubiquitous Computers. The Planetary Computer. PART IV: A RECIPE FOR SOLUTIONS. 4G Network. Choosing Computer Technologies for 4G. Solution of the Air-Interface for 4G. The 4G Personal Communicator: Star Trek Technology 400 Years Early. 4G Portals: Wireless AOLs. PART V: CASE STUDIES: FIXED WIRELESS, JAPAN, AND CHINA. Broadband Fixed Wireless Access. NTT DoCoMo--Crouching 4G Tiger; Sony--Hidden Dragon. Why China will Adopt 4G. Conclusion. Index.