Articles tagged with: Rural and 3G

Brazil Leads Lat-Am in Deployments, Connections and Demand for WiMAX and 3G Services

..olve to be converted into a complement of cabled accesses and WiFi Hot Spots; in rural areas they will be transformed into the principal telecommunications backbone, positioning themselves as the primary networks for telephony and Internet acce more

Hutchison 3G Ireland Awards Satellite Based Broadband Contract

..e to Avanti of EUR 5.3 million over 3 years. Avanti will be concentrating on serving the rural areas where ADSL and Mobile broadband will not reach. The contract will cover an anticipated 5,000 - 6,000 homes and businesses in its initial phase more

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Caribbean & Latin America - CDMA Enters its "Sunset" Phase

.. the remaining users disconnected, leaving a rump of not much more than 60k, mainly in rural and remote areas of the continent. CDMA networks experienced the largest drop in absolute terms. It is only two years since Vivo began selling GSM hand more

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Active RAN Sharing Could Save Operators $60 Billion

..see very great potential in emerging markets like India where rural expansion and 3G could drive active sharing." more

EU Moves Closer to Approving 3G at 900Mhz

..900 MHz is an ideal band for extending the benefits of broadband connectivity to rural and semi-urban areas, thus helping to bridge the digital divide, and is a perfect complement to 2100 MHz systems, which ensure the capacity layer. Alan Hadd more

Femtocells Deliver 5-Times Speed of Macro Network in Operator Trials

..ariety of single family homes, townhouses, and apartments in urban, suburban and rural settings, to simulate the full-range of subscriber dwellings. Testing was run three times in each location to compare pure macro coverage, pure femtocell cov more

148 Million Mobile Data Roaming Subscribers This Year

.. for users in major business and tourism centers driving down prices compared to rural regions. Indeed, prices for data roaming have been falling in Europe and roaming data usage has been growing. However, notes Beccue, "Revenue growth for data more

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India welcomes MVNOs

..competition with the Indian MNOs, which are all aiming to capture new customers via aggressive expansion into the rural regions. Secondly, many new entrants are likely to find it tough to compete and survive on such low margins, particularly wh more

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Telecom Operators in Emerging Markets to Benefit from Technology Transfer in 2009

..e are in the process of developing programmes in areas of green technologies for rural access and connectivity, spectrum management and harmonisation, competition policy and market development to ensure greater penetration of basic services suc more

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China's 3G Buildout to Drive a Telecom Capex Increase in Asia/Pacific

..com, and China Unicom - are not only extending their 2G infrastructure to rural areas but also earmarking tens of billions of dollars for their new 3G networks. These trends play to the advantage of Chinese vendors such as Huawei and ZTE." more