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The Mobile Communications industry is currently developing standards and solutions for the next steps in the evolution of mobile networks. This introduction looks at the fundamental radio and network technologies being introduced in these steps, and how this is aligned into the future Fixed Mobile convergence (FMC) of the Next Generation Networks.

Commercial radio technology has reached an inflection point, similar to the transition from analog to digital, when we invented a whole range of digital technology; now we’re moving from single carrier technologies, where we transmit one digital symbol at a time, to a new paradigm, where we’re potentially transmitting hundreds of symbols simultaneously.