Articles tagged with: Mts and Umts

3G Subscriptions in the Honduras Market to Surge by 30% by 2014

3G subscriptions in the Honduras telecommunications market will surge to 30 percent by 2014, up from 2 percent today, according to a new report from Pyramid Research. With a total revenue of US$863 million in 2008, the telecommunications market in Honduras ranks 14th in Latin America and fourth in Central America. However, the market will expand at a CAGR of 4.6 percent over the next five years, the fourth highest expansion rate in the region, notes Jose Magana, analyst at Pyramid Research and co-author of the report. more

Related Tags: , 3g, iphone, pyramid-research, tigo, latin-america, cagr, 3g-coverage, Honduras

World's First Femtocell Standard Published by 3GPP

Three trade bodies, The Femto Forum, 3GPP and the Broadband Forum have jointly announced that the world's first femtocell standard has been officially published by 3GPP, paving the way for interoperability between different vendors' access points and femto gateways. The new standard, which forms part of 3GPP's Release 8, and interdependent with Broadband Forum extensions to its Technical Report-069 (TR-069), has been completed in just 12 months following cooperation between the three groups. more

Related Tags: 3g, sim, privacy, edge, lte, core-network, ovi, femtocell, 3gpp, femto-forum, femtocells, interoperability

MTS Uzbekistan Orders Interconnect Billing Platform

Polystar OSIX, a supplier of OSS/BSS solutions, has announced that mts Uzbekistan has placed an order with it for Interconnect, Network and Service Performance Management. Under the terms of the agreement, mts Uzbekistan will deploy Polystar Interconnect Peering Assurance, Network and Service Assurance solutions to cover legacy, as well as GPRS, VoIP and Umts technologies. more

Related Tags: voip, Uzbekistan

EU Moves Closer to Approving 3G at 900Mhz

The decision by the European Parliament to accept the amendment of the GSM Directive to allow Umts (WCDMA-HSPA) technology to be deployed in the 900 MHz band has been welcomed by the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA). more

Radcom to Expand Service Assurance Solution in Asian 3G Operator

Radcom has announced that an unnamed Asian mobile network operator will be offering its corporate clients its QLocate LBS (location-based system) application for localized promotional purposes. This cellular services operator bought Radcom's Omni-Q service assurance solution, a network testing, monitoring and performance quality management system, to monitor its Umts cellular network end-to-end. more

Related Tags: roaming, ovi, iden, lbs, gsm

Mobilkom Austria Orders Starent Networks' 3G and LTE Solutions

Starent Networks says that it has won a contract from the mobilkom austria group for its multimedia core solution for deployment in its mobile operator member companies across Europe for Umts and LTE mobile broadband services. Starent is working with Kapsch CarrierCom, Austria for the solution deployment. more

Huawei delivers China Unicom' s first 3G network in Zhengzhou

Huawei says that it has deployed China' s first WCDMA commercial network for China Unicom in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China. In China Unicom' s Phase One Umts tender, Huawei was awarded the largest market share of over 30 percent based on number of transceiver to be deployed. more

Related Tags: china-unicom, wcdma, huawei, cdma, hspa, iden, in-stat, shanghai, unicom, henan, video-call, china-unicom., China

ZTE, Other 3G Device Providers Play Active Role in Deploying 3G Networks in China

CCID, a research firm in China disclosed recently in an industry report which predicted that the rapid deployment of 3G networks in China will eventually result in the creation of about 660,000 3G subscriber lines by Q3 this year. This will make China the country with the largest 3G network construction in the world. more

Optimising the Interoperation of UMTS and GSM at 900 MHZ

Wireless operators can recover as much as 50 percent of the spectrum lost to transition zones when deploying Umts at 900 MHz with legacy GSM networks, according to Sean Cordone, PhD, Vice President of Engineering at ISCO International. Dr. Cordone is the author of a whitepaper released today. more

Related Tags: 3g, wimax, eu, lte, hspa, hsupa, gsm, hspa+, prague, 3g-network, 2g

Arieso Releases Updated Network Planning Tool

Network optimisation vendor, Arieso has announced the release of version 4.5 of its Automatic Cell Planning solution, ariesoACP. Amongst a number of new features, the ariesoACP 4.5 release includes a pilot pollution KPI. Pilot pollution is one of the biggest problems in Umts and cdma2000 networks. Explicitly considering the pilot pollution KPI in the automatic optimisation process will allow operators to produce network plans that address head-on its impact on network quality and the subscriber experience. more

Related Tags: itu, capex, cdma, cdma2000, arieso, handover, target