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Umts and wireless lan are different, Gsm/gprs/umts – Siemens IEEE802.11 User Manual

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UMTS and Wireless LAN are different.

GSM/GPRS/UMTS

n

anytime / everywhere

n

voice, realtime messaging

n

QoS

n

precious bandwidth

n

carrier grade

n

operator driven

n

huge customer base

n

high revenues

WLAN IEEE802.11

n

sometimes / somewhere

n

standard web applications

n

best effort

n

cheap bandwidth

n

corporate technology

n

market driven

n

casual users

n

low revenues