of e-mail and cellular devices for UMTS TDD, 382 landline services, 219 Time-Division Multiplexing. See TDM Teleport, acquisition by AT&T, 113 Time-Division Synchronous CDMA (TD- telepresence, 92, 238 SCDMA), 325 television Time Warner, 282, 284 analog and digital, 311 Time Warner Cable, 109, 201, 282 connecting computers to, 266 TIM (Telecom Italia Mobile) Brasil, 404 on the Internet, 16 TLS (Transport Layer Security), 233 Internet-enabled, 266 T-Mobile USA, 135, 376 streaming video from Internet to, 281 canceled merger with AT&T, 137 transporting in core networks, 186-187 proposed sale to AT&T by Deutsche Telekom, viewing via devices connected to Internet, 280 Telkom Kenya, 409 tokens, 233 Telmex, 401 toll switches, 179 Telstra (in Australia), 172 topologies, 173, 250 terabits per second (Tbps), 19, 268 consideration on private lines, 252 Terremark Worldwide, Inc., 35 touchscreen technology, mobile phones, 357 terrestrial microwave, 248 towers, 324 text, compression, 14 town e-mail lists, 291 texting, 306 TracFone Wireless, Inc., 138 text messaging, 134 tracking files on browsers, 278 in Asia, 393 training, availability of, and digital divide, 297 Thailand, 393 transceivers, 204 third generation (3G) cellular networks, 306, 316, transition to reforms (FCC regulations), 122 324, 381, 390 transmitters, 44 3.5 technologies and WCDMA evolution, 327 transoceanic network systems, 169-171 air interfaces, 324 strategies to increase capacity of existing architecture in WCDMA networks, 329 routes, 170 Index technological advancements, 170 United Arab Emirate, 393 using mesh configuration to back up services, United States broadband subscribers, 218 Transport Layer (OSI), 49 largest cellular companies, 136 Transport Layer Security (TLS), 233 universal mobile telecommunications system transport networks (UMTS), 325, 382. See also WCDMA fourth generation (4G) mobile networks, 344 universal queues, 96 mobile networks' dependence on, 330 universal service, 123 transport services, 211 Universal Service Fund. See USF travel ind