ABSTRACT
Wireless technology has been with us for many years; however, the application of this technology did not begin a very real advance until the mid-1990s. Much of the success of this technology can be traced to the rapid deployment of wireless technology in European countries. In these areas, the deployment of wireless local loop (WLL) systems made it possible to provide an alternative to the lack of a dependable copper infrastructure. In some countries where subscribers waited years for a telephone, the availability of wireless technology reduced the wait time to weeks. Later, as GSM networks began to proliferate, the concept of greater mobility (i.e., mobile handsets) enabled many more subscribers to move onto the public network without
the requirement for even a terminal in their homes, as was the case with the WLL systems.
