Transmission Performance Objectives for Terrestrial Digital Wireless Systems Using Portable Terminals to Access the PSTN - General Characteristics of International Telephone Connections and International Telephone Circuits (Study Group 12) 17 pp
This Recommendation provides transmission performance objectives for terrestrial digital wireless systems that use portable terminals to access the PSTN (or the PSTN network interface).While satellite access to a base station is not within the scope of this Recommendation, interconnection with the PSTN, which may involve satellite access, or a satellite link within the PSTN, is not excluded. In this Recommendation, these portable terminals are generically referred to as wireless personal communication systems; however, there is no intent that the objectives herein necessarily apply to any specific wireless personal communication system. The objectives provided here have been derived with the explicit assumption that the switching and transmission systems used in the PSTN, above and including the local exchanges, are digital, with subscriber lines being either analogue or digital. This assumption allows for more pertinent guidance for the time frame in which these future wireless systems are expected to be deployed. Such wireless systems are not expected to introduce, during stable operation, any significant transmission quality degradation relative to PSTN links covered by the G.100-Series of Recommendations.Currently, Recommendation G.173 exists for established mobile technologies that may not comply with this Recommendation for economic reasons.