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A Day at the Huawei Campus in Shen Zhen
My colleagues and I at Informa were invited to visit the Huawei campus in Shen Zhen last week, the day before the LTE Asia conference which took place in Hong Kong to discuss their plans for the future...
View ArticleMetroPCS Picks Ericsson for Its LTE Network
MetroPCS a regional carrier in the USA and a leading provider of unlimited, flat-rate, no contract service announced today that it has selected its infrastructure and initial handset vendors for its...
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CSL Crystal Clear About Their LTE Strategy
Tarek Robbiati, the CEO of CSL opening the LTE Asia conference in Hong Kong last week. The problem: 3G was always going to be disadvantaged against 2G spectrum bands of 900 and 1800 MHz. It set the...
View ArticleWill India Get LTE? (Part 2)
I blogged a few weeks ago about whether India would get LTE and I had the opportunity to meet with a few of the the indian regulators at the LTE Asia conference last week. They confirmed that that...
View ArticleFeedback from the LTE Customer Consultation Day
Taking part in the LTE customer consultation day, were some of the top vendors including Ericsson, Huawei, NSN, Motorola and others including picoChip, Freescale, Signalion and Rohde & Schwarz....
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Do Operators Want Net Neutrality?
The chairman of US communications authority the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has vocalised his support for net neutrality as a way of preserving the free and open internet. The (FCC)...
View ArticleWill LTE Be Reliable When it is First Launched?
“We can build all the bells and whistles and make lots of bold claims, but none of it will matter if the network - and all of the underlying infrastructure that supports the network - isn't...
View ArticleLTE World Series YouTube Channel!
Informa has just launched its YouTube channelfeaturing an archive of interviews that have been conducted over the space of a year at the LTE World Summit events!Interviewees have included the top tier...
View ArticleHas Telefonica Been Lagging a Little too far Behind with LTE?
Telefonica has become the latest global operator to LTE trials and has has selected six vendors to launch test projects in six different countries in preparation of rolling out LTE-based...
View ArticleCalculating the Cost of LTE, Can Operators Afford LTE in the Economic Downturn?
We have seen in the last 6 months or so that some tier 1 operators have been quietly delaying their plans for LTE, some by a few years. T-Mobile is a good example, having stated their plans to roll out...
View ArticleCisco Wants a Piece of the LTE Market
Cisco Systems announced today its second multibillion dollar deal this month: a definitive agreement to acquire Starent Networks for about $2.9 billion. The buyout comes on the heels of Cisco's roughly...
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TeliaSonera Offers a Single-Mode Modem Only for Its LTE Launch
TeliaSonera has signed a deal for LTE modems from Samsung for its launch in Sweden and Norway in the first half of 2010. The reason behind this single mode LTE only modem is simply because that's...
View ArticleOperators Don't Just Want to be a Dumb Pipe
The net neutraility argument continues. The FCC is due to vote on new net neutrality rules tomorrow whilst Verizon has warned the commission not to pass rules barring operators from favouring certain...
View ArticleDoCoMo LTE Launch Date Finalised
Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo will launch commercial LTE service in December of next year, skipping the interim upgrade to HSPA+ which many operators have decided to do and delay the launch of LTE to...
View ArticleIs Network Sharing and Joint Ventures the Best Model for LTE Deployment?
With the joint venture announced between Telenor and Tele2 in Sweden, is it just too expensive for operators to be building their own LTE networks?Operators such as Orange and T-Mobile in the UK are...
View ArticleIs the LTE Performance Gain Simply Due to Wider Frequency Bands?
There have been various LTE trials going ahead in 2009 and of course the surprise LTE network launch by TeliaSonera who have estimated LTE user data rates to be in the range of 20-80 Mbps. Similar...
View ArticleWhat Advanced Applications Will We See On The LTE Network?
Verizon Wireless announced that it is updating its specifications for LTE devices that will run on the network. These new specifications are aimed at helping developers to design products and services...
View ArticleLack of LTE Devices, Still a Worry?
At this years Mobile World Congress, vendors were announcing LTE devices of all shapes and sizes. Besides modems, vendors showed netbooks and portable Wi-Fi hotspots that are compatible with...
View ArticleCan a LTE-WiFi Business Model Work?
With most operators deciding to back LTE over WiMAX, the LTE versus WiMAX debate is over. WiMAX will have its place in the industry, but will not be the global mass market technology that it was touted...
View ArticleIs Skype the Future of Voice?
The industry has decided that IMS (or VoLTE) is definately the solution to providing voice over LTE, but recent announcements by the likes of Verizon Wireless who will be joining forces with Skype, was...
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