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Nokia Siemens Networks Wins LTE Contract From Rural USA Network

­Nokia Siemens Networks says that it has won an LTE supply contract from USA based rural mobile network operator, Mosaic Telecom covering its existing 700 MHz and 1700/2100 MHz bands. Mosaic will also improve indoor coverage for its 3G customers by deploying Nokia Siemens Networks' femto base stations.  more

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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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Tele2 and Telenor to Jointly Build LTE Network in Sweden

..e access to mobile internet at speeds of up to 80 Mbit/s in rural areas and up to 150 Mbit/s in urban areas. The roll-out includes an extension of the GSM network by 30-50 percent, resulting in better indoor and outdoor coverage on mobile voi 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

Related Tags: t-mobile, 3g, base-station, eu, vodafone, o2, abi-research, capex, telenor, 3, backhaul, tele2, infrastructure-sharing, opex, tower, antenna, telia, network-sharing


USA Saw Lowest Ever Annual Subscriber Growth in 2008

Although the American market did not suffer quite so badly as the Canadian market in the fourth quarter, it did see a disappointing figure for net additions. The quarterly gain of 4.15m represented the lowest increase since 2002, and it was 58% lower than the 6.55m recorded in Q4 07. The total market reached 271m customers, equivalent to a penetration rate of 88.8%. Meanwhile, the inexorable decline in annual growth continued: 2008 saw an uplift of just 6.1%, the lowest figure ever recorded in the market in more than 25 years of service.  more

Related Tags: t-mobile, metropcs, leap-wireless, tim, verizon-wireless, verizon, alltel,


Dialog Telekom to Deploy Solar and Wind-Powered Base Stations in Sri Lanka

..ial for operators wanting to provide a broad range of mobile coverage, over vast rural areas, far beyond the reach of national electricity grids," said Michael O'Hara, chief marketing officer for the GSMA. "Dialog Telekom, as part of  more

Related Tags: base-station, wind, byd, base-stations, dialog-telekom, telekom, renewable-energy, solar, Sri Lanka


Using Mobile Phones to Boost Health Care Provision

.. ways, such as accelerating the collection and storage of patient data, training rural professionals and personalizing the way patients receive medical treatment." The formation of the Alliance resulted from a July 2008 Rockefeller Foun more

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WiMAX Leaps Digital Divide in Developing Asia

..er year, three times the rate of major cities. Government policies aimed at closing the rural-urban "digital divide" are one reason for this rapid growth, but historic lack of broadband alternatives is at least as strong a factor. "Big cities  more

Related Tags: sim, analytics, wimax, ict, strategy-analytics, hspa, villages


Verizon Profits Rise as Wireless Growth Starts to Slow

US based Verizon Communications has reported a rise in its fourth-quarter profits, although growth in its wireless subscriber base slowed even as landline subscribers continued to shut-down their accounts. The firm recorded a quarterly profit of US$1.2 billion compared to US$1.1 billion a year ago - on sales of US$24.6 billion (compared to US$23.8 billion a year ago).  more

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Crucial decisions on spectrum needed to secure Ireland's wireless future

..for these three key areas. "The 2G spectrum at 900MHz is ideally suited to rural broadband, as is the extra spectrum from the digital dividend - though technical standards in the latter are currently less well defined," explains Kidney. "2.6 GHz more

Related Tags: wimax, mobile-broadband, eu, 900mhz, analysys-mason, digital-dividend, comreg, 2.6ghz, 2g, Ireland


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