Articles tagged with: Hspa and Sim

Cost of Supporting Mobile Broadband is Eroding Subscriber Profitability

Mobile broadband services are more expensive to support than any other wireless service and are endangering subscriber profitability for many mobile network operators concludes a new study from WDSGlobal. The study found that the cost to support mobile broadband products and services is up to 200% greater than the cost to support traditional wireless products such as mobile phones. This means that despite revenue uplift from increased data usage, actual subscriber profitability often remains unchanged and sometimes even worsens. more

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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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New iPhone Rumours Emerge from Canada

Following on from recent rumours that O2 UK was trying to run down stocks of the Apple iPhone in preparation for a new model, come stories that Canadian operator Fido is also carrying out a similar operation. more

Related Tags: 3g, iphone, apple, ict, o2, rogers-wireless, rogers, o2-uk, apple-iphone, fido, Canada

BSNL Launches 3G Services in 11 Cities

Ericsson has issued an update on its Sept 2007 contract win from India's BSNL - and says it achieved the country's biggest simultaneous launch of 3G services to date, across 11 major cities. As part of its roll-out strategy, BSNL plans to launch 3G services using WCDMA/hspa technology across more than 700 cities in the first phase. more

iPhone in China: China Mobile or China Unicom?

Opinion by Sherrie Huang, analyst at Ovum

The iPhone distribution negotiations between Apple and China Mobile were first reported in 2007. While many expected to see the two shake hands, no deal has yet been announced and it is now rumoured that Apple will partner with China Unicom instead. What is interesting is how the competitive environment will influence any cooperation. more

Huawei Launches World's First Unified LTE Solution

Huawei has demonstrated the world's first unified frequency-division duplex and time-division duplex (FDD/TDD) long-term evolution (LTE) solution. Huawei says that the new unified FDD/TDD LTE solution enables more efficient utilization of spectrum resources and helps operators deliver mobile broadband networks at a significantly reduced cost. more

Qualcomm Chipset Supports Simultaneous Voice and Data Usage

Qualcomm has introduced the industry's first chipset solution for Smartphones supporting CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Rev. B and Simultaneous Voice-Data Operation (SV-DO), as well as multi-carrier hspa+ and LTE. The MSM8960 chipset is scheduled to sample in mid-2010. more

WiMAX Leaps Digital Divide in Developing Asia

Strategy Analytics predicts that consumer WiMAX subscriptions in the developing countries of Asia will grow from a few thousand now to almost 27 million by 2013. "Broadband Beyond the Cities," a report from the Emerging Markets Communications Strategies (EMCS) service, predicts that the strongest growth will come outside the major cities of Asia. more

Related Tags: analytics, wimax, ict, rural, lte, strategy-analytics, villages

Sierra Wireless Launches HSPA+ USB Modems

Sierra Wireless has launched its first mobile broadband USB modems for hspa+ networks. The new modems nearly triple the speed of other mobile broadband devices, with peak download speeds of 21Mbps. The Sierra Wireless USB 306 and USB 307 modems are expected to ship within the first half of this year. more

Ericsson to Demo 42Mbps Mobile Data Downloads

Ericsson says that it will perform the first-ever demonstration of the new hspa multi-carrier technology for peak downlink data rates of 42Mbps at the Mobile World Congress next week. Multi-carrier technology is the next step in the evolution of hspa and enables consumers to receive data simultaneously on two frequency channels. This doubles the user data rate in the coverage area of an hspa network and on the cell edge, where consumers normally experience lower data rates. more

Related Tags: edge, lte, ericsson, mobile-broadband, telstra, mimo, fixed-wireless, downlink

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