This document provides an overview of the Mobile Communications course being offered in Winter 2011. It discusses various topics related to signal propagation including transmission ranges, effects on signal propagation like fading and shadowing, propagation modes like ground-wave, sky-wave and line-of-sight. It also summarizes different types of fading, fading models and techniques for dealing with fading channels. The course is taught by Suprakash Datta and more details on the course can be found on the provided website.