Articles tagged with: Elisa and Rural

Qualcomm Warns About Scarce 3G Spectrum in Asia Region

In an interview, Qualcomm's president for Southeast Asia and the Pacific region, John Stefanac warned that mobile operators face a regulatory regime which is not allocating sufficient radio spectrum for 3G services. Citing a recent example in Indonesia, he told the South China Morning Post that the networks were only granted 5-10Mhz of spectrum each, which is not sufficient to deploy viable 3G services.  more

Related Tags: m1, wcdma, qualcomm, advanced-info-service, capex, mts, radio-spectrum, 900mhz, umts

UMTS900 Operator Case Study Shows Significant Cost and Coverage Benefits

The Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) has published an operator case study on Finland's elisa network which it says shows significant cost and coverage benefits of deploying 3G services in the 900Mhz spectrum band.  more

Related Tags: asia-pacific, capex, mts, hspa, mobile-broadband, 900mhz, umts900, opex, indoor-coverage, Finland

Vodafone Starts Selling 3G PC Card for 900Mhz HSPA Networks

Option has started shipping a new wireless broadband ExpressCard to Vodafone - which also supports HSPA services at 900Mhz. Exclusively developed for the Vodafone Group and its Partner Networks, the new ExpressCard is designed to achieve peak HSDPA download speeds of 7.2 Mbps with HSUPA uploads at up to 5.76 Mbps - depending on the network availability.  more

Related Tags: qualcomm, hspa, hsupa, mobile-broadband, 900mhz, vodafone-group, wireless-broadband, hsdpa