Software Radio Receivers

From the experiences made one can easily extrapolate that the foreseeable mobile communications market as well as the communications devices will allow for heterogeneous plurality, i.e. there will be no common standard. At least today’s standards will continue as new standards are introduced. Different operators will deploy different standards in different areas of the world, always in order to try to exploit the forces of market to their own profit. We cannot expect a unification of the mobile communications market organized by the network operators. On the other hand there is a demand for unification of the mobile communications market from the equipment manufacturer’s and user’s point-of-view. In the future few users of mobile communications services will accept to carry dedicated terminals for different services in different networks. Moreover, the equipment manufacturers can reduce the cost of their products by unifying the hardware platform.