Articles tagged with: Hspa and 3Gpp

You've Heard of VoLTE; How About Voice over HSPA?

The trade association, 4G Americas has published white paper that describes the technological features that are being developed to make Voice over hspa (Vohspa) a reality. more

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Worldwide UMTS-HSPA Subscriptions Surpass Three Quarters of a Billion

In 2Q 2011, Latin America saw remarkable uptake of mobile broadband with an annual growth rate of more than 90 percent, close to double the number of mobile broadband subscriptions, for UMTS-hspa, reports 4G Americas, based on subscription data from Informa Telecoms & Media. more

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3GPP Mobile Broadband Subscriptions Now Exceed 100 Million in Western Hemisphere

4G Americas - a wireless industry trade association - has announced that more than 100 million mobile broadband customers in the Americas region are using 3GPP technology. With an annualized growth rate of 77 percent for the Western Hemisphere, including 158 percent annual growth in Latin America and 55 percent in the U.S. and Canada, the regional growth for 3GPP mobile broadband far exceeds the 40 percent growth of 3GPP mobile broadband worldwide at the 12 months ending September 2010 (subscriber data according to Informa Telecoms & Media WCIS). more

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3GPP Mobile Broadband Technologies Achieve 73% of New Connections in the Americas

3GPP mobile broadband technology (UMTS-hspa) grew by 11.9 million new subscriptions, of the total (net) 16.3 million mobile subscriptions added in the second quarter 2010 throughout the Americas, reports 3G Americas. The explosion of 3GPP mobile broadband subscriptions earmarks the increasing interest of mobile users in advanced 3G technology services and applications, and the growing proliferation of smartphones, and represents 73 percent of the total (net) new connections in the mobile industry in North, Central and South America in the second quarter. more

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3GPP Mobile Broadband Sees 81% Annual Growth in Western Hemisphere

The 3GPP mobile broadband technology (UMTS-hspa) realized growth of 81 percent throughout the Americas in the year ending March 2010, reports 3G Americas, a wireless industry trade association. Propelled by an increase in 3G network deployments, upgrades to hspa networks, mobile broadband subscriptions, netbooks and smartphones, operators are reporting significant growth in revenue from data services. more

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Industry predicts 21 Mbps to be next mobile broadband baseline

Mobile broadband is continuing to grow at a fast pace due to the ever increasing introduction of new technologies, new networks, new devices and competitive innovation in the market. In July, the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) announced that 7.2 Mbps had become the new baseline for mobile broadband globally, since at that time half of the hspa networks in commercial service globally were capable of supporting a peak downlink data speed of 7.2 Mbps or higher, supported by almost 600 user devices capable of 7.2 Mbps or higher which had been launched in the market. Some hspa systems support a peak downlink data speed up to 14.4 Mbps. more

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GSA confirms 7.2 Mbps as new baseline for HSPA

Half of the hspa networks in commercial service globally are capable of peak downlink data speeds of 7.2 Mbps or higher, according to research just published by the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA). more

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Nortel Completes LTE-TDD Wireless Demo in China

Nortel says that it has successfully completed the first end-to-end video streaming session using a Time Division Duplex (TDD)-based LTE network, working with commercial grade LTE Base Station and device prototypes in China. This is an important milestone in the development of next generation wireless services for TD-SCDMA mobile network deployments in China, as well as advancing the deployment of LTE for service providers using TDD spectrum. more

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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

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Mobile WiMAX to Encounter Significant Hurdles on its way to Mediocrity

Although proponents of mobile WiMAX are positioning it as the best choice for a next generation network technology, IMS Research believes that it will struggle to gain traction with operators, and will ultimately remain a niche mobile technology. more