Coordinated broadband mobile telephone system

The philosophy and broad outline of a coordinated broadband mobile telephone system are discussed. This system would be able to provide mobile telephone service of better quality than at present to many times the present number of customers. This could be made possible by means of an integrated switching and transmission design based upon a broad block of frequencies. All mobile units would be controlled over a data channel from a digital common control system at central. The research, development, and production programs required to bring such a system into being would take a number of years, possibly as many as ten. Technical feasibility seems reasonably certain. To achieve economic feasibility might require a substantial effort. Realization of the system would have to be gradual and would require the cooperation of radio manufacturers, airplane and automobile manufacturers, and telephone companies.