The document discusses speech codecs and wireless local loop (WLL) systems. It explains that speech codecs aim to reduce bit rates while maintaining quality in order to accommodate more speech channels within the same transmission bandwidth. This is possible due to redundancies in human speech and the perceptual limits of the human ear. Lower bit rate codecs are more complex, introduce more delay but are also cheaper. Codec performance is evaluated based on metrics like bit rate, quality and complexity. WLL systems use cells and sectors to serve subscribers via base stations within a given bandwidth. Codecs play a key role in improving the capacity of these systems.