LICENSING OF THIRD GENERATION (3G) MOBILE: BRIEFING PAPER1 1 This paper was prepared by Dr Patrick Xavier of the School of Business, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia (
[email protected]) ahead of the ITU Workshop on licensing 3G Mobile, to be held on 19-21 September 2001 in Geneva. The author wishes to thank Lara Srivastava, Dr Tim Kelly and Audrey Selian of the ITU and John Bahtsevanoglou of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission for significant contributions relating to the preparation of this paper. The views expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the ITU or its membership. 3G Briefing Paper TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction................................................................................................................................................ 5 1.1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 5 1.2 Structure of the paper ....................................................................................................................... 6 2 Technical issues in the evolution to third-generation networks................................................................. 6 2.1 Standardization issues ...................................................................................................................... 7 2.2 The migration path from 2G to 3G..................................................................................................