How much is a byte?: a survey of costs for mobile data transmission
Thomas Mundt · 2004
UMTS telecom providers promise the availability of broadband multi media information everywhere within the covered area of their networks. This papers surveys what the actual costs for data trans-missions over UMTS (3rd generation) and other wireless technologies, such as GSM (2nd generation) GPRS, HSCSD, and EDGE (transitional generation) are, and compares those results with traditional data transmission via ISDN, LAN, and newer technologies such as WLAN and Bluetooth. To reach this, the paper tries to combine as many sources as possible. But, we do not look at the case from the economic point of view. We analyze the technical conditions. 1