Offering a practical and up-to-date treatment of the latest technologies, system design implementations and plans, this book describes the emerging personal communications network (PCN) and personal communications services (PCS) as they exist today - and as they are envisioned for the future. 
 The first half of this book covers the theory of wireless communications, presenting the historical background of wireless telephony and the evolution of wireless technologies in the U.S. and Europe. The second half of the book presents the analog and digital (cellular and PCS) systems used in the U.S., Europe, and Japan.