This comprehensive overview brings the reader up-to-date on new technologies for low-speed data, speech and broadband communications, competing standards, adjacent technologies, new generation networks and future developments. It covers all EU countries, Norway, Switzerland, the USA and Japan. The text includes up-to-date discussions on standards such as TETRA/Tetrapol, POGSAC/ERMES/FLEX and W-CDMA, several adjacent technologies such as VSAT, (d-)GSP and DAB broadcasting, and US and Japanese standards such as IS-95, CDMA, D-AMPS, FLEX/ReFlex and PDC.