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Articles tagged with: Indoor Coverage
LTE Migration Could Cost Mobile Operators up to $1.78 Billion in CAPEX
Network planning and optimization consultancy, Aircom International says that the migration cost to LTE could be as much as US$1.78 billion for a tier-one U.S. operator in the first year. more
Related Tags: aircom-international, lte, radio
Mobile VoIP Could Transform Mobile Landscape
Mobile VoIP is moving beyond its initial function as a new mechanism to get inexpensive international calls, reports In-Stat. While Mobile VoIP still poses a direct threat to operator voice revenue, it also represents a dynamic new capability that promises numerous applications. In-Stat projects that by 2013 Mobile VoIP applications will generate annual revenues of $32.2 billion, driven by over 278 million registered users worldwide. more
Related Tags: voip
Cellular Specialties Offers Low-Cost Indoor Coverage Improvement Service
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Related Tags: cellular-specialties, USA
Vodacom Taps Andrew for Wireless Coverage In South African World Cup Stadiums
Andrew Solutions says that it has won a contract from South Africa's Vodacom to deploy indoor coverage in five of the 10 South African stadiums to be used for the 2010 World Cup. Andrew's multi-operator ION-M optical distributed antenna system supports current GSM 900/1800 and UMTS frequency bands as well as next generation LTE and WiMAX networks. The systems' basic architecture involves fiber optic and coaxial cables, master and remote units, and other subsystem products that receive and transmit signals from dedicated operator base stations to customer handhelds throughout the facility. more
Related Tags: andrew-solutions, vodacom, umts, andrew, three, fiber-optic, South Africa
Mobile Number Portability More Attractive to India's Postpaid Users
The introduction of Mobile Number Portability is considered good news for consumers, but presents a looming threat for mobile operators since it presents consumers with the choice of retaining their current mobile phone numbers even if they change their operator. And according to a recently conducted Mobile Consumer Insights study conducted by The Nielsen Company to gauge consumer attitudes and behavior towards mobile operators in India, it seems that close to one in five (18%) Indian mobile phone subscribers would change their mobile operator if Mobile Number Portability is introduced into the market. more
Related Tags: mobile-number-portability, mnp, west-bengal, tamil-nadu, India
UMTS900 Operator Case Study Shows Cost and Coverage Benefits
The Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) has published a new UMTS900 operator case study on Optus in Australia, which shows significant cost and coverage benefits of deploying 3G mobile broadband services with UMTS900. The case study examines the business drivers and practical experiences of Optus, who launched UMTS900 in May 2008. It confirms the findings from GSA's earlier UMTS900 case study on Elisa Corporation in Finland, and also provides additional insights. more
Related Tags: optus, umts900, 3g, gsa, gsm, opex, andrew, Australia
Close to 10 million shipped Femtocell units expected by 2013
The global Femtocell market is expected to generate € 875 million in revenues for Service Providers by 2013 for 9.7 million shipped units, reports iDate - a French research firm. iDate says that the market is not as promising as expected since the added value a Femtocell solution offers is too low in the eyes of endusers. more
Related Tags: femtocell, idate
Wise broadband policies can create a win-win situation in developing countries
In the last few years, the subject of the global digital divide has received a lot of attention from the telecoms industry. Much of this interest has focused on the role that mobile networks are playing to narrow the divide, as mobile penetration rates in developing markets have been growing strongly, while those in mature markets have saturated. However, at the same time, there has been mass-market adoption of broadband in an increasing number of countries in the developed world, while take-up of broadband in many countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America has been negligible, causing the broadband access gap to widen considerably. more
Related Tags: wimax,, wireless-broadband, uunet-kenya
Femtocells Deliver 5-Times Speed of Macro Network in Operator Trials
Femtocell developer, Airvana has published results of performance tests of the company's HubBub CDMA femtocell which it says demonstrated dramatic improvements for indoor 3G coverage and performance when compared with using the existing macro-cellular network alone. Based on the results of side-by-side testing, a typical HubBub user can expect to achieve broadband data rates throughout their house of approximately five times that of the existing wireless macro network. more
Related Tags: 3g, sim, mobile-data, rural, cdma, iden, mobile-broadband, femtocell, femtocells, ctia, testing, airvana
ST-NXP Wireless Brings 3G/UMA to Mass Market
ST-NXP Wireless says the world's first 3G unlicensed mobile access (UMA) chipset platform is now in mass production, paving the way for a new range of converged fixed and mobile phones with enhanced multimedia capabilities. more
Related Tags: wi-fi, social-networking, edge, mts, fixed-mobile-convergence, umts, handover