 mind the real engineering masterpiece will be to create superior quality-of- experience for the end user. Consumers are not interested at all in three- or four-letter abbreviations, let alone in understanding how they work. Consumers want ease-of-use and superior quality - anytime and anywhere. The ultimate engineering challenge is to understand the desired experience and implement the technical ecosystem from the user interface and the operating system of the mobile device through the radio network and the air interface, passing through the application middleware and connecting to the Internet, the voice network or the corporate environment. Mobile networks enable an uninterrupted phone conversation to be enjoyed while driving on German motorways with no speed limits at speeds of 200 km/h with handovers every 50-60; or allow businessmen to check their emails while riding elevators in some of the highest buildings in the world in Shanghai or Forewords Hong Kong. However, do they know about the technology behind it, the radio propagation, the cell design, the handover optimisation or the latency management? Imagine what technical understanding is needed to plan, design, implement and optimise the service and the network, end-to-end. Broadband, real-time services like video calls are just being added as an additional dimension to the already complex equation. Both the service providers and operators need to have a detailed understanding of what is required to create a quality network for mobile users in order to provide them with a quality experience. This is where this book Advanced Cellular Network Planning and Optimisation comes in handy. Covering the aspects that are required to design and optimise various types of networks ranging from GSM to EGPRS to UMTS and across all domains, radio, transmission and core, this book will definitely help people in the cellular industry to get their networks to a level where the subscribers will have a quality experience. Also, with an introduction to fourth generation techn