W-CDMA: Mobile Communications System

The remarkable progress in information technology (IT) since the late 1990s continues to facilitate faster communications, broadband access and lower communication costs in the information and communications sector. Consequently, communications has penetrated not only the business scene but also every aspect in personal life, to the extent of dramatically changing people’s lifestyles. The widespread use of the Internet, which appeared in the 1990s, is also contributing to the advent of a wide range of multimedia services that undermine the barriers of time and place.