Articles tagged with: 2g and True

Chinese Smartphone Shipments Continue to Rise

Shipments of smartphones for sale in China are set to soar by a record 53 percent this year, according to new research from the IHS iSuppli China Electronics Supply Chain service, from information and analysis provider IHS. more

Related Tags: zte, huawei, cagr, ihs, China

CAT Telecom Approves 3G Plans by Two Private Networks

Thailand's state-owned CAT Telecom says that it has agreed - in principle - the plans by two other mobile networks to use their existing networks to offer 3G services. The two networks, TAC and True Move plan to offer 3G services in the 850Mhz band following the collapse of the country's planned 3G license auction in September. more

Related Tags: cat-telecom, truemove, 3g, telecom, cat, 850mhz, Thailand

Switching to 3G Modules Lowers Cost of Machine-to-Machine Communications

The telecoms trade association, the GSMA has published research that reveals 3G embedded modules have a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than modules based on 2g technology. The report, conducted by Analysys Mason, specifically compels operators to deploy 3G embedded technology so that they can reap the benefits of Mobile Broadband, such as higher data throughput, enhanced capacity and richer mobile services. more

Related Tags: machine-to-machine, m2m, gmsa, wireless

Indian Auditor Claims Flawed Spectrum Auctions Lost $396 Million

India's chief auditor has formally indicted the Communications Minister A Raja for allegedly causing a loss of up to Rs177,000 crore (US$396 million) after selling 2g radio spectrum below the rates recommended by other government departments. more

Related Tags: raja, radio-spectrum, telecom, court, parliament, India

Over 230,000 New Base Stations to Be Added Next Year in the Four Largest Emerging Markets

While many sectors of the economy are languishing in the global recession, wireless infrastructure is relatively healthy. This also holds true in the world's major "emerging markets." Base station deployment continues in many countries, and the four largest markets - Brazil, Russia, India, and China, known collectively as the "BRIC" group - are expected to see more than 230,000 of them being deployed during 2010. more

Related Tags: base-station, abi-research, bric, wimax,, africa, Brazil

HSPA Drives Mobile Infrastructure Market Growth in 2008

According to a recently published report by Dell'Oro Group, the worldwide total mobile infrastructure market revenue grew 5 percent in 2008, driven by the nearly doubling and quadrupling of revenue of the WCDMA and WiMAX markets, respectively. more

Related Tags: 3g, base-station, smartphone, wimax, wcdma, smartphones, driving, lte, cdma, hspa, mobile-broadband, dell, gsm

Telstra Launches 21Mbps Download Service

Australian network, Telstra has commercially launched the world's fastest mobile broadband service. The service will offer a 21Mbps peak download rate and the peak network speeds will increase to 42Mbps later this year. more

Will LTE be to mobile operators what NGNs are to fixed?

Opinion by Steven Hartley, senior analyst at Ovum

With all the excitement surrounding LTE, it is easy to overlook how the practicalities of migration will impact mobile operators. Migration to LTE will need to be approached in the same way that fixed telcos have viewed next-generation network (NGN) deployments - long term and holistically. more

Related Tags: intel, lte, ovum, crm, backhaul, billing, managed-services, option, 3g-coverage, seamless

A Receding Economic Tide Lowers Expectations for Crucial System-Level Chips

Revenue from global shipments of core silicon Integrated Circuits (ICs) - i.e., Application Specific Standard Products (ASSPs), Application Specific ICs (ASICs) and Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs) - is set to suffer a weak finish to 2008, and decline by nearly a double-digit percentage in 2009, according to iSuppli. more

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