Articles tagged with: Lte and Voip

Mobile VoIP Poses a Huge Challenge for Traditional Mobile Voice Providers

Mobile portal voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) offered by third-party application-based providers poses a huge and direct challenge to the US$692.6 billion global mobile voice market, according to Gartner. The research firm predicts that over time traditional network-based mobile carriers face the real prospect of losing a major slice of their voice traffic and revenue to new non-infrastructure players that use VoIP. more

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Telefonica Conducts 1st Tests of LTE Network in Spain

Spain's Telefónica has conducted its first tests on a live lte network, installed at its Demonstrations Centre in Madrid. These initial real demonstrations or tests consisted of a VoIP call, and a videocall using an lte mini-network installed by Ericsson; a video conference, and data and images downloads at speeds in excess of 140 Mbps, around 10 times those possible with current 3G networks using HSPA technology. more

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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

Nokia Siemens Networks gives voice to LTE

With a simple upgrade to their circuit switched core network, over 220 of Nokia Siemens Networks' customer operators can smoothly start offering Voice over lte much sooner than they thought. Nokia Siemens Networks says that they have developed a smart approach for providing voice service over lte networks that operators can implement with simple and cost-effective software and hardware upgrades to their existing 3GPP circuit-switch core network. more

Japan's Telecom Market to Show Modest Growth Through 2013

Japan's telecommunications services market will grow by 1.1 percent each year over the next five years, with revenue growth from IPTV, VoIP, and mobile data services making up for declines in legacy service offerings, according to a report from Pyramid Research. more

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Spending On Managed Services Increasing Despite Recession

..s will find that purchasing managed services from third-party providers is a cost-effective alternative to increasing internal staffing. The study predicts that revenues associated with the managed services market will grow from nearly $30 bil more

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Over 2.5 Million Mobile WiMAX Users in South Korea by 2011

According to the latest ROA Group report, the number of mobile WiMAX users in South Korea will increase to more than 2.5 million by 2011. The market revenues are also expected to increase to KRW65 billion (US$627 million) by 2011. more

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Motorola Demos First CDMA/EV-DO Rev-A to LTE Network Handoffs

..ch as the CDMA/EV-DO Rev-A to LTE handoff demonstration done by Motorola gives Alltel confidence that LTE is progressing in the right direction," said Chris Smith, executive vice president, Network Services, Alltel. "It is going to be more

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3G LTE and SIP Capability to Dominate Mobile Markets

UMTS Long Term Evolution (lte) will dominate the world's mobile infrastructure markets after 2011, according to a recent study from ABI Research. While lte will encounter competition from other mobile broadband technologies, its supporters point to its flat architecture, low latency, and IP NGN (Next-Generation Network) capability to provide a range of SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) services. more

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Almost 1.2 Billion SIP Users by 2012

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) services will become the norm after 2010 and will rapidly begin to dominate the world's telecom markets. By 2012 almost half of all telecom users will be using at least one SIP-based service, but more than likely will have many services from multiple devices able to communicate with other users and services across the Web and between enterprise and public networks. This will generate over $150 billion in service revenue annually with cumulative infrastructure capital expenditure of over $10 billion by that date. more

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