Two of the fastest growing sectors of communications today are mobile and Internet, both of which have had a profound effect on people's lives. The convergence between these two sectors not only presents great opportunities for the future of 'unplugged' telecommunications, but also great challenges in understanding the relative position of different technologies in this future. This book reviews the contribution of different wireless access technologies to that future and looks at the opportunities of opening up access to telecommunications systems, via application programming interfaces (APIs). The economic and regulatory issues associated with wireless communications are also discussed, with a look at the history and potential future of mobility from a user perspective.

Also available:

Internet and Wireless Security - ISBN 0852961979
Telecommunications Network Modelling, Planning and Design - ISBN 0863413234

The Institution of Engineering and Technology is one of the world's leading professional societies for the engineering and technology community. The IET publishes more than 100 new titles every year; a rich mix of books, journals and magazines with a back catalogue of more than 350 books in 18 different subject areas including:

-Power & Energy
-Renewable Energy
-Radar, Sonar & Navigation
-Electromagnetics
-Electrical Measurement
-History of Technology
-Technology Management

Peter Smyth leads the mobility and wireless research program at BT Exact, generating novel technologies and applications for BT's future. He'Â’s an expert in both mobility and wireless - skills he combined with earlier experience in optical communications. In 2003, he won the NPV Brightstar award for Corporate Entrepreneurship.