Articles tagged with: Hspa and Eu

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

Study Finds Large Cost Savings for Migrating Heavy Data Users to Femtocells

Signals Research Group has completed a whitepaper on the business case for femtocells as part of its ongoing femtocell business modeling initiative with the trade group, the Femto Forum. The study found, across a wide variety of scenarios considering different regions of the world, the business case for femtocells is strong---often doubling the customer lifetime value---and does not depend on any one critical factor or assumption in order to generate a favorable outcome. Further to this, the research demonstrated that femtocells can dramatically reduce the growing financial costs made by heavy mobile broadband data users on the mobile network. more

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Smartphone sales buck the recession

A report by Infonetics Research is forecasting an 8% drop in the total number of mobile phones sold in 2009, to 1.1 billion worldwide (down from 1.2 billion in 2008), in line with predictions from Nokia, among others. Smartphones were the best-performing segment of the mobile phones market in 2008 and the only segment to show unit and revenue growth in the second half of the year as the world economy entered recession. more

EU Moves Closer to Approving 3G at 900Mhz

The decision by the European Parliament to accept the amendment of the GSM Directive to allow UMTS (WCDMA-hspa) technology to be deployed in the 900 MHz band has been welcomed by the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA). more

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Austria Gets Europe's First HSPA+ Mobile Data Network

Telekom Austria's mobile subsidiary, mobilkom austria, has become the first operator in Europe to launch hspa+ services - offering a potential mobile data download speed of 21 Mbps. In a first step, hspa+ will be rolled-out in Vienna's 10th district, with further hotspots following throughout the country by the second quarter of 2009. more

Ericsson achieves 0.5Gbps data rate with VDSL2-based broadband

Ericsson has performed the world's first live demonstration of a VDSL2-based technology achieving data transfer rates of more than 0.5Gbps. This will allow operators to offer low-cost, high-performance connectivity to an increased range of mobile backhaul customers, enterprise users and residential customers. more

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, lte, mts, hsupa, gsm, hspa+, umts

Q4 Mobile Base Station Contracts Surge With Nokia Siemens Networks on Top

EJL Wireless Research has published its fourth quarter 2008 base station contract analysis results. Despite the global financial crisis that has engulfed the wireless telecom industry, fourth quarter base station contracts totaled 182, increasing from 112 in Q3. more

GSMA Urges Latin American Regulators to Relax radio Spectrum Limits

Tight spectrum caps in some Latin American countries are artificially curbing uptake and usage of broadband in the region, according to a study by consultancy Arthur D Little (ADL) for the GSMA, the global trade group for the mobile industry. The study found that rigid restrictions on the amount of spectrum available to mobile operators are undermining their ability to provide mobile broadband services that would enable millions of people to access the Internet, email and other online services via computers and handsets at high speeds in areas lacking DSL or cable broadband connections. more