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Articles tagged with: 3G Americas
GSM Based Networks to Pass 4 Billionth Subscriber in September
The trade body, 3G Americas is predicting that the GSM-HSPA subscriber base is expected to reach 4 billion mobile connections worldwide sometime next month. more
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3G Americas Recommends Plan to Maximize Broadband Spectrum
Trade body, 3G Americas has published key recommendations for utilizing non-standard spectrum bands in a white paper that discusses the emerging challenges for spectrum stakeholders involving how to permit wider spectrum usage by operators using various broadband technologies and current spectrum allocations. These challenges are especially poignant in "fragmented" spectrum bands (which depart from globally or regionally harmonized bands), such as the AWS III band in the U.S., and in the potential for country specific allocations of the 2.6 GHz IMT band and "Digital Dividend" spectrum outside of the U.S. more
Related Tags: radio-spectrum, aws, imt, radio
3G Americas Publishes Report on Smart Antennas
The trade association, 3G Americas has announced the publication of an educational report on the topic of smart antenna systems - also known as multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology. Smart antenna, or MIMO, technology is commonly defined as, the use of two or more unique radio signals, in the same radio channel, where each signal carries different digital information, or two or more radio signals that use beam forming, receive combining and spatial multiplexing (SM). Relative to a traditional 1x1 antenna system, a 2x2 MIMO system is expected to deliver significant cell throughput gain. more
Related Tags: mimo, smart-antennas, lte, hspa+, smart
72% Share of Market for GSM Technologies in Western Hemisphere
Wireless industry trade association, 3G Americas has announced that GSM-HSPA has captured 72% of the entire cellular market in the Western Hemisphere. With nearly 555 million subscriptions in the Americas at the end of the first quarter of 2009, GSM achieved an annual growth of 25%, adding 110 million new connections in 12 months. more
Related Tags: gsm, long-term-evolution, hsdpa
3G Americas Reiterates Need for Industry to Move Towards IPv6 Addressing
Industry trade body, 3G Americas has published a white paper which is outlining the needs in the Americas region to plan a transition to the internet addressing system, IPv6. The explosive growth in the wireless industry has created a requirement for always-available IP addresses. IPv4 addresses are rapidly diminishing and are likely to exhaust by 2012. more
Related Tags: 3g, voip, lte, mobile-broadband, 3gpp, long-term-evolution, ip-multimedia-subsystem
3G Americas and NGMN Alliance Initiate Cooperation on Next-Gen Networks
3G Americas, a wireless industry trade association representing the GSM family of technologies, and the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance have announced a cooperation agreement between the two associations in support of the development and commercialization of next generation mobile broadband technologies and services. more
Related Tags: 3g, lte, cdma, hspa, mobile-broadband, 3gpp, gsm, ctia
Mobile Phone Subscribers Pass 4 Billion Mark
GSM focused trade body, 3G Americas says that a historic milestone was achieved for the wireless industry in December 2008 with 4 billion connections to mobile devices worldwide. more
Related Tags: lte, core-network, mts, cdma, hspa, mobile-broadband, compete, telstra, gsm, hspa+, bandwidth
3G Americas Publishes Research Report on Trust and Security in Mobile Applications
3G Americas, a wireless industry trade association representing the GSM family of technologies has published a research report which uncovers the issues for consumers and application providers about attempts to compromise services and applications through such trust and security issues as identity theft, phishing and pharming. more
Related Tags: gemalto, sms, nfc, rsa, edge, hspa, uicc
Report Says that SMS is Not Ideal for Emergency Communications
US trade group, 3G Americas has published a research report focusing on restrictions on the use of SMS as an emergency alert service. The use of text messaging or SMS has become ubiquitous and commonplace for recreational and business purposes. According to CTIA -The Wireless Association, text messaging has set new records in the United States, with 75 billion messages reported in the month of June 2008 alone -- about 2.5 billion messages a day. Accordingly, SMS messaging is now viewed by many as a reliable method of communication when all other means appear unavailable, and some third party companies are offering emergency notification services based on SMS. more
Related Tags: sms, text-messaging, ctia, USA
Over One Million New GSM Subscriptions a Day Worldwide
3G Americas, a wireless industry trade association is reporting that in the year ending June 30, 2008, GSM/HSPA networks added over 115 million subscriptions in the Americas region with a market share of 67%. According to industry research firm, Informa Telecoms & Media, global GSM/HSPA wireless subscriptions as of June 30, 2008 totaled 3.2 billion adding more than a million new subscriptions for the GSM family of technologies per day worldwide. more
Related Tags: social-networking, mts, hspa, cdma, hsdpa