The world of telecommunications is rapidly evolving, driven by the European success of GSM and a global phenomenon as Internet. The primary aim of third generation mobile communications systems, referred to in Europe as UMTS, is to achieve convergence between the mobile and the Internet environments by offering a broad range of high-quality and high-speed mobile multimedia services. 3G mobile systems will form an important building block in the construction of the Information Society by ensuring the convergence of communications, information and entertainment content, consumer electronics and computing.
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