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Evolution Of Mobile Network Essay

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THE GRADUAL EVOLUTION OF MOBILE NETWORKS FROM FIRST GENERATION TO THE FIFTH GENERATION
ABSTRACT
Mobile networks have made a remarkable growth in the last 20 years. In our time 4G is the main network used to ensure IP connectivity for real time and non-real time services. It will be wrong not to mention that in most 3rd world countries 3G and 2G networks are still of great importance in the field of communication due to poor connectivity issues preventing them to utilize the services of 4G services. This paper will mainly talk about the growth of mobile networks from say 3G to 4G and also mention in details what we expect from 5G network. It will also mention some of the positive and negative impacts to our Kenyan society and ways to ensure that we benefit fully from the services. The proposal in this paper is fundamental shift in the mobile networking philosophy compared to existing 3G and near-soon 4G mobile technologies, and this concept is called here - the 5G.
GENERAL TERMS
EDGE-ENHANED DATA FOR GSM EVOLUTION
GSM-GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION
GPRS-GENERAL PACKET FOR RADIO TRANSMISSION
CDMA-CODED DIVISION FOR MULTIPLE ACCESS

KEY WORDS
Networking, 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G
INTRODUCTION
Since the invention of 1G (first generation) mobile network there has been a series of inventions to better the reception, bandwidth and latency of communication. It all started by the shift from analog to digital (discrete) kind of communication. I will take you through sands of time

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