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Articles tagged with: GSM and 3G Network
O2 Starts Migrating UK iPhone 4 Users to 900Mhz Spectrum
UK based mobile network operator, O2 has doubled its planned network investment to £2 million (US$3.2 million) per day following approval from the telecoms regulator to start refarming some of its gsm900 spectrum for 3G services. more
Related Tags: o2, apple-iphone, 3g, 900mhz, gsm900, congestion, UK
AIS Suspends 3G Expansion Pending License Auction
Thailand's Advanced Info Service (AIS) has suspended the expansion of its trial 3G network running over the 900Mhz band, citing concerns about congestion for its existing gsm subscribers. The conpany will now wait for the long delayed 3G auction to release radio spectrum in the more conventional 2100 Mhz bands. more
Related Tags: advanced-info-service, ais, 3g-license, 900mhz, siemens, tot, 3g-licenses, nokia-siemens, congestion, auction, Thailand
3G Rollouts in China Drive Big Growth in WCDMA and CDMA Base Station Deployments
In a recently published report by Dell'Oro Group the worldwide mobile infrastructure market revenue contracted 9 percent year-over-year in the first quarter of 2009 despite a record number of 3G base station shipments. The gsm market experienced its largest year-over-year decline as Chinese mobile operators focused on 3G network deployments. more
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TIM Brasil Subscriber Numbers Fall – For the First Time Ever
Depending upon your point of view, Q1 09 could be either the quarter in which TIM began to reverse the relative declines of recent years, or a further lurch downwards. The company lost customers in the quarter, ending with a base of 36.1m, against 36.4m at the end of Q4 08, but up on the 32.5m of one year earlier. This, for the record, is the first time the company has seen a reduction in the size of its base. TIM says in its Q1 report that the number was struck after disconnecting about one million inactive customers, implying a like for like gain of about 700k. It also tells us that it took 29% of March's new connections which in turn, implies a figure of about 380k in that month alone. more
Related Tags: tim-brasil, vivo, Brazil
New Technology Could Double 3G Network Voice Call Capacity
Finnish operator Elisa and Nokia Siemens Networks have demonstrated a new technology that allows operators to increase voice capacity of their 3G networks, potentially up to double the baseline capacity. The trial call was conducted in Elisa's live 3G network using R&D prototype devices supplied by Nokia. In technical terms the demonstration was of the world's first circuit switched call over a high speed packet access network (CSoHSPA). more
Related Tags: elisa, nokia-siemens-networks, 3g, csohspa, 3gpp-release-7, hspa-evolution, i-hspa, 3gpp, battery, hspa+, siemens, nokia-siemens, high-speed-packet-access, continuous-packet-connectivity, Finland
North Korean 3G Network Signs Up 20,000 Subscribers
It has been reported that the 3G network launched late last year in North Korea has already signed up some 20,000 subscribers. The Japan based, pro-North Korea newspaper, Choson Sinbo reported the figures noting that the customers include foreigners allowed to work in the country. more
Related Tags: 3g, orascom-telecom, pyongyang, orascom, Korea
Optimising the Interoperation of UMTS and GSM at 900 MHZ
Wireless operators can recover as much as 50 percent of the spectrum lost to transition zones when deploying UMTS at 900 MHz with legacy gsm networks, according to Sean Cordone, PhD, Vice President of Engineering at ISCO International. Dr. Cordone is the author of a whitepaper released today. more
Related Tags: 3g, wimax, eu, lte, mts, hspa, hsupa, hspa+, umts, prague, 2g
China Unicom Confirms in Talks with Apple of iPhone Sales
China Unicom's chairman Chang Xiaobing has confirmed that the company is in talks with Apple over an option to sell the iPhone handset in the country. He did not elaborate on the talks, citing confidentiality agreements. more
Related Tags: 3g, iphone, china-unicom, wcdma, apple, china-mobile, td-scdma, cdma, in-stat, unicom, option, China
Huawei Wins Ghana Contract from Vodafone
It has been reported by local media that Ghana Telecom - now 70% owned by Vodafone - has signed a US$120 million network upgrade contract with Huawei. The contract will involve the upgrading of the existing gsm network and the preparation for a future 3G network launch. more
Related Tags: huawei, vodafone, mtn, ghana-telecom, tigo, globalcom, david-venn, Ghana
Third of Asia-Pacific 3G Subscribers Expected to Use PC Dongles
Asia-Pacific was home to some 121 million 3G subscribers in 2007 and an estimated 158.4 million in 2008. By 2013, the region's 3G subscriber base is expected to top 564 million, accounting for about 18.2 percent of all mobile users. With 3G subscriber net additions in record numbers year-on-year, mobile operators are eager to monetize 3G external broadband devices, namely dongles and datacards, to complement their mobile broadband offerings. more
Related Tags: arpu, driving, lte, hspa, mobile-broadband, dongles, dongle, laptop
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