Articles tagged with: Hspa and Capex

Next-Generation Mobile Broadband Technologies to Close the Gap With Fixed Broadband

Mobile operators are expected to fully maximise their high-speed packet access (hspa) deployments before eventually deploying 3G long-term evolution (LTE). Many operators will leapfrog from hspa to 3G LTE, as the window of opportunity for hspa Evolved is insignificant when compared to 3G LTE.  more

Related Tags: , 3g, base-station, mobile-data, smartphone, wimax, mobile-wimax, eu, smartphones, tim, wind, lte, ovi, mobile-broadband, backhaul, wimax,, planning, network-planning


Combining Multiple Backhaul Routes into Single Virtual Pipes

Mobile backhaul vendor, Celtro says that it has developed a platform which blends multiple transport links into a single virtual backhaul pipe. The announcement of Virtual Bonding's availability follows the completion of trials at two (unnamed) Tier-1 European mobile operators, where the firm says it dramatically improved hspa service delivery.  more

Related Tags: ethernet, mobile-data, edge, rcom, backhaul, bandwidth


Russia's MTS Profits Down on Currency Losses - Delays Network Upgrades

Russia's Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has reported a 21% drop in 3rd quarter net profits to US$515.6 million, which the company put down to currency losses on its US dollar debt. Consolidated revenues were up 27% y-o-y to US$2.8 billion due to subscriber additions, rising voice traffic and VAS adoption throughout the Group  more

Related Tags: edge, mts, vas, moscow, mobile-telesystems, Russia


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, rural, elisa, mts, mobile-broadband, 900mhz, umts900, opex, indoor-coverage, indoor, global-mobile, gsm900, Finland


Mobile Capex Finally Shifts to 3G Technologies

Mobile network operators are finally shifting their infrastructure capital spending away from GSM/EDGE technologies and toward W-CDMA and hspa, with carriers in Western Europe leading the 3G charge, according to a new report from Heavy Reading.  more

Related Tags: mobile-wimax, w-cdma, huawei, nortel, lte, motorola, 3gpp, era


Network costs threaten mobile broadband growth

The cost of network equipment is a serious threat to the continued growth of an otherwise promising mobile broadband market. According to mobile strategy consultants Omnitele of Finland, mobile operators could pay up to several hundred EUR per broadband subscriber in network CAPEX alone - more than ten times the benchmark CAPEX per voice subscriber.  more

Related Tags: driving, omnitele


Anadigics Offers Power Amp for 3G Phones in the GSM900 Bands

Anadigics has announced its new AWT6281 HELP3 WCDMA Linear Power Amplifier (PA) engineered specifically for use in 3G handsets operating in the GSM900 bands. The company said that the new power amplifier extends the operating time of 3G handsets and data cards, which is critical for successful operation using today's High Speed Packet Access (hspa) networks. AWT6281 has been specified by leading chipset manufacturers for selected reference designs.  more

Related Tags: wcdma, gsm-association, mts, power-amplifiers, ovum, anadigics, umts900, umts, chipset, high-speed-packet-access, power-amplifier, gsm900


HSPA to Dominate Mobile Broadband while WiMax goes Niche

With over 93 commercial networks in operation, hspa is likely to account for the majority of investment in global mobile broadband networks over the next five years, finds a new study by Arthur D. Little. By comparison mobile WiMax will be a niche technology within the overall global mobile broadband wireless access market, likely to account for at most 15% of this network equipment market and perhaps 10% of mobile broadband wireless subscribers by 2011-2012. more

Related Tags: mobile-wimax, arthur-d.-little, hsupa, lte, radio-access-network, wimax,, broadband-wireless-access, global-mobile, ofdma


Subscribe to our free daily newsletter

Search the website  
Top items on cellular-news

Field Maintenance Manager (Middle East / West Asia)

Senior Telecom Project Manager (Middle East / West Asia)

RF Network Optimization Engineer (Norway)

RF Engineer (2G/3G Huawei /ericsson Experience) (South-eastern Asia)

Field Maintenance Manager (Middle East / West Asia)

Top jobs in your area

Lte/ Umts RF Optimization/ Performance Engineer
USA - Nationwide

NSN Umts Optimization Engineer
USA - Nationwide

RF Engineers
USA - Nationwide

Multiple job Openings Across USA
USA - Nationwide

Field Technician 11
USA - Nationwide

Search the website