mber of appendices are also given. These appendices contributed by the experts in the respective fields deal with aspects such as planning tools and hot topics such as multi- media planning and optimisation, location based services, E2E performance measurements The Erlang B tables given will come in handy to planning engineers in their day-to- day work. In conclusion, there are a list of carefully chosen books and papers given that I'm sure readers will find useful. Finally, all suggestions and comments for the improvement of this book are welcome Readers are requested to mail their comments to: FCNP@hotmail.com Acknowledgements I fall short of words to thank everyone who has helped in bringing this book to completion. My first thanks go to Matti Makkonen who encouraged me to go ahead with the idea of writing a book on network planning. My gratitude also goes to Veli-Pekka Somila for boosting my efforts and enquiring from time to time about the progress of the book. Big thanks go to Tomas Novosad, for guiding me and encouraging me to write. Thanks are due to the following colleagues and friends, for taking the time to read the manuscript and give valuable comments: Silvia Bertozzi, Sheyam Dhomeja, Ville Ruikka, Jussi Viero, Sonia Barriero, Maria Sanchez, Bogdan Cosmin, Farida Abbes, Guilherme Pizzato, Mika Sarkioja and S.K. Acharya. Thanks also go to Azizah Aziz for helping me during the last phases of writing. Many thanks to Anthony Crane and Klaus Goerke for donating their time and sharing with us their vision about the mobile industry in the foreword section of this book. I would also like to thank Olli Nousia, Asok Sit and Juha Sarkioja for their support and guidance in the past years. Ari Niininen, Christophe Landemaine, Carlos Crespo, Johanna Kahkonen, N. B. Kamat and Nezha Larhissi provided the materials in the appendices, at short notice, for which I am grateful. Thanks go to the team at John Wiley & Sons, with special mentions for Sophie Evans, Mark Hammond and Daniel Gill who gave me excellent support t