Articles tagged with: Ict and Hspa
Cost of Supporting Mobile Broadband is Eroding Subscriber Profitability
..s a laptop. You have to contend with hardware performance and conflicts, driver incompatibility and buggy software. Diagnosis and fault resolution therefore becomes more complex, negatively impacting support times. Add to this the fact that man more
Related Tags: wdsglobal, 3g, usb-modem, customer-care, ovi, tim, arpu, sim, mobile-broadband, laptop, modem, ev-do, security
Brazil Leads Lat-Am in Deployments, Connections and Demand for WiMAX and 3G Services
..then consumption on demand. This means that the market is still at a restricted access stage that prevents network saturation, to be able to offer an acceptable Internet navigation experience, allowing a differential to be charged for the servi more
Related Tags: wimax, 3g, signals-telecom-consulting, mobile-number-portability, wi-fi, rcom, mts, ovi, iden, virgin-mobile, mvno, rural, itu, telefonica, number-portability, Brazil
Study Finds Large Cost Savings for Migrating Heavy Data Users to Femtocells
..lustrate the flexibility of the femtocell business case. The picture that emerges is one of a low risk investment, requiring a modest financial outlay to get started and costs which can be easily paid back based on conservative assumptions abou more
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Smartphone sales buck the recession
..hones 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 more
Related Tags: android, nokia, iphone, smartphone, samsung, wimax, motorola, eu, w-cdma, smartphones, tim, cdma, ericsson, lg, infonetics-research, symbian, open-source, wimax,, gsm, operating-system
Austria Gets Europe's First HSPA+ Mobile Data Network
..a 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. Transmission speeds of up to 28.8 Mbps will be reached in t more
Related Tags: mobile-data, eu, mts, ericsson, hsupa, mobile-broadband, telekom-austria, hspa+, hotspots, telekom, Austria
New iPhone Rumours Emerge from Canada
..while he didn't indicate his sources, his prediction of software upgrades for the existing iPhones has come true. He also noted that upgraded hardware variants of the iPhone should be expected, with increased screen resolution and support for more
Related Tags: 3g, sim, iphone, apple, o2, rogers-wireless, rogers, o2-uk, apple-iphone, Canada
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: sim, analytics, wimax, rural, lte, strategy-analytics, villages
InterDigital Unveils SlimChip Embedded HSPA Modules for NetBook Markets
..s estimates that the MID market will double annually through 2014, and ABI Research predicts a market of close to 70 million MIDs shipped by 2012. "The MID market is in rapid evolution, from some initial devices by market leaders to what we an more
Related Tags: android, windows-mobile, texas-instruments, analytics, smartphone, smartphones, wind, abi-research, strategy-analytics, texas, mobile-internet, windows, linux
GSMA Urges Latin American Regulators to Relax radio Spectrum Limits
.. 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 more
Related Tags: t-mobile, t-mobile-usa, itu, driving, lte, verizon-wireless, verizon, mobile-broadband, eu, digital-dividend, analog, gsma, aws, 700mhz
Global Mobile Phone Subscribers to Reach 4.5 Billion by 2012
According to MIC (Market Intelligence Center), an ict industry research institute based in Taipei, global mobile phone subscribers hit 3.1 billion in 2007, thanks mainly to the continuing increase of prepaid subscribers with double SIM cards and corporate clients in the US and European markets. With the global mobile phone penetration rate reaching approximately half of the global population, growth momentum of global subscribers is expected to slow down after 2008. more
Related Tags: sim-card, roaming, wcdma, gsm-association, qualcomm, docomo, verizon-wireless, verizon, lte, telstra, cdma2000-1x, mic, hutchison, cdma2000, analog, ev-do
