IEEE ComSoc Seminar: IMT-2000 (3rd-generation cellular)

Ed Casas (edc@ece.ubc.ca) Mon, 8 Mar 1999 16:05:44 -0800 

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 16:05:44 -0800
From: Ed Casas <edc@ece.ubc.ca>
Subject: IEEE ComSoc Seminar: IMT-2000 (3rd-generation cellular)




	       IEEE Communications Society Seminar

		  Tuesday, March 30 at 7:30 PM

    International Mobile Telecommunications - 2000 (IMT-2000)

		      Michael H. Callendar
	      Chairman, ITU Task Group 8/1 (TG8/1)


The exponential rate of increase of both mobile and internet
services in recent years is dramatically changing the global
telecommunications scene. Customers expect instant access to
information, in multimedia form, anywhere - anytime.

Current mobile systems were designed primarily for voice
communications in a limited range of radio operating environments
and are thus designated as cellular, cordless, private, fixed,
mobile data or satellite systems. IMT-2000 is designed to roll
all these disparate systems, which usually operate in different
frequency bands, into one global standard offering higher bit
rate multimedia capabilities.

With around 500 million mobile users predicted by the year 2000
it is likely that wireless access will exceed wired access before
2010. Wireless access also provides a promising way to reduce the
"Telecommunications Gap" between developed and developing
countries so that a cost effective way can be found to provide
communications to the over 4 billion people who do not presently
have a phone, or in most cases even access to a public phone.

The talk describes the current standards work in the
International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations
body responsible for global telecommunications regulation and
standards, aimed at providing multimedia mobile services early in
the next century.

				
Speaker:

Michael H. Callendar received a B.Sc. from London University,
England, in 1959 is a Chartered Engineer and a Member of the
Institution of Electrical Engineers.

He has worked in the communications field in a number of
countries before settling in British Columbia, Canada in 1974.
He was in charge of automation of the extensive B.C. Telephone
radiotelephone network, which involves both rural and urban
components, in the "good old days" before cellular.

He moved into Corporate Development and later became a Senior
Member of the Technical Staff of MPR Teltech Ltd., the Research
and Development arm of the BCTel Group of Companies, to create
strategies for optimum utilization of the emerging new wireless
access technologies.

He has been Chairman of Task Group 8/1 (TG8/1), in the
International Telecommunication Union - Radiocommunication Sector
(ITU-R), since the group was formed in late 1985 to study the
requirements for Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunication
Systems (FPLMTS), now known as International Mobile
Telecommunications - 2000 (IMT-2000).

Since his retirement from BCTel in 1994 he is continuing his role
as the chairman of TG8/1, as a representative of Nortel Networks
(Canada).

The talk will be held at the BCIT North-West 1 Boardroom, 3700
Willingdon St, Burnaby.  You can also meet the speaker at a
no-host dinner before the talk at 6:00 PM at Earl's, 4361
Kingsway.  All are welcome, no notice required.  For more
information contact Ed Casas, UBC Electrical and Computer
Engineering, at 822-2592 or e-mail Engineering, at 822-2592 or e-mail edc@ece.ubc.ca.

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