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Articles tagged with: Long Term Evolution
Research In Motion Accuses Nortel of Blocking Bids for its Wireless Assets
BlackBerry manufacturer, Research In Motion ("RIM") has lashed out at Nortel Networks, accusing it of deliberately blocking attempts to buy assets from the bankrupt telecoms vendor. RIM says that it sought to be qualified as a qualified bidder in Nortel's auction bidding process for the Wireless Business, but was told it could be qualified only if it promised not to submit offers for other Nortel assets for a period of one year. In seeking to impose this condition, Nortel and its advisors were allegedly aware of RIM's desire to purchase other Nortel assets. more
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Mobile broadband via laptop users to reach 418m worldwide in 2017
Newly released forecasts show that portable laptop and netbook users accessing the internet via mobile broadband will produce US$48bn in operator revenues in 2017, will number 418m worldwide, and will generate and consume an immense 1.8 exabytes of traffic per month - a forty fold increase over 2009. more
Related Tags: mobile-broadband, lte, laptop, play
Alcatel-Lucent Wins Japanese Backhaul Contract
Alcatel-Lucent has been selected by Japan's NTT DoCoMo to build the mobile backhaul network for its Long Term Evolution (LTE) network. Alcatel-Lucent's packet optical solution will provide DoCoMo with Ethernet-based aggregation and transport from the base stations to the core network. more
Related Tags: alcatel-lucent, backhaul, ethernet, lte, Japan
72% Share of Market for GSM Technologies in Western Hemisphere
Wireless industry trade association, 3G Americas has announced that GSM-HSPA has captured 72% of the entire cellular market in the Western Hemisphere. With nearly 555 million subscriptions in the Americas at the end of the first quarter of 2009, GSM achieved an annual growth of 25%, adding 110 million new connections in 12 months. more
Related Tags: 3g-americas, gsm, hsdpa
LTE to Reach 100 Million Subscriptions Faster Than Any Previous Mobile Standard
The number of Long Term Evolution (LTE) subscriptions worldwide will grow at a CAGR of 404 percent from 2010 to 2014, a pace faster than any previous mobile standard including 3G, according to a new report from Pyramid Research. more
Motorola Develops Self-Organising LTE Network
Motorola has announced the launch of its Long Term Evolution (LTE) self-organizing network (SON), which automates previously manual steps involved in planning, deploying, optimizing and operating the network. In addition to lowering the cost of planning and deploying LTE, Motorola says that the algorithms and features of the LTE SON solution will help the operator dynamically optimize its network for best performance and make it simpler and easier to manage. more
Related Tags: lte, motorola, backhaul, son
Evolving Landscape of Mobile Broadband in Asia
Asia's mobile subscriber total is expected to surpass 2 billion subscribers by 2012 when 63 percent of the regions' residents are expected to own a mobile phone. However, the fact remains that in 2008 only 8 percent of the region's subscriber base was using 3G and launches in several Asian markets have left much to be desired in terms of subscriber and revenue uptake. more
Related Tags: asia-pacific, 3g, mobile-tv, tim, lte, mobile-payments, ovi, iden, mobile-broadband, location-based-services, mobile-advertising, 3g-modem, ringtones, modem
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
Related Tags: base-station, eu, lte, hspa, ericsson, mobile-broadband, backhaul
Nokia Siemens Networks Increases Investment in TD-LTE
Nokia Siemens Networks says that it is gearing up for the launch of next generation Time Division Duplex Long Term Evolution (TD-LTE) technology in China. Following successful lab demonstrations conducted with operators in Germany last year, the company has now expanded its team in Hangzhou, China, to support the commercial roll out of TD-LTE. more
Related Tags: nokia, eu, itu, lte, mobile-broadband, siemens, td-lte, China
3G Americas Reiterates Need for Industry to Move Towards IPv6 Addressing
Industry trade body, 3G Americas has published a white paper which is outlining the needs in the Americas region to plan a transition to the internet addressing system, IPv6. The explosive growth in the wireless industry has created a requirement for always-available IP addresses. IPv4 addresses are rapidly diminishing and are likely to exhaust by 2012. more
Related Tags: 3g, voip, lte, mobile-broadband, 3gpp, 3g-americas, ip-multimedia-subsystem