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Articles tagged with: T Mobile and Lte
T-Mobile and Huawei Complete Testing on Self-Organizing LTE Network
Huawei says that it has successfully completed the world's first test for LTE self-organizing network (SON) with t-mobile in Innsbruck, Austria. Through the solution's ability to configure, optimize and recover automatically, Huawei said that the LTE SON will offer operators operational cost savings associated with network planning, network deployment and network optimization. more
Related Tags: huawei, son, self-organising-network, handover, broadband, testing, Austria
T-Mobile Carries out LTE Trials on Huawei Base Stations
t-mobile says that it has carried out the world's first test of multi-user broadband services with mobility on a Next Generation Mobile Network (NGMN) using LTE in the city of Innsbruck in West Austria. more
Related Tags: huawei, testing, radio, life, Austria
T-Mobile Demos "Coordinated Multi-Point Transmission" for LTE Networks
t-mobile, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, and the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) have demonstrated for the first time interference-free real-time downlink transmission simultaneously from two base stations to two mobile terminals in two overlapping mobile cells. The system used for this is known as Coordinated Multi-Point Transmission (CoMP) and is considered a key technology for LTE networks. more
Related Tags: comp, telekom, Germany
Vodafone Sees Loss of UK Market Share and Lower ARPUs
The UK added over 3m new mobile connections during 2008, to take the total base to 75.75m, equivalent to 124% penetration. The market is one of the most competitive in Europe, if not the world, with five established MNOs and several MVNOs, of which the most successful are Virgin and the increasingly ambitious Tesco. more
Related Tags: tesco, virgin-mobile, mvno, vodafone, orange, hutchison-3g-uk, iphone, o2, ict, eu, arpu, 3g, , tim, h3g, 3m, UK
Deutsche Telekom Issues Profits Warning - May Write Down T-Mobile Value
Deutsche Telekom has issued a profits warning, and now expects adjusted EBITDA in 2009 to be 2 to 4 percent below last year. The company is now expecting to post EBITDA in the range of EUR18.7 billion - EUR19.1 billionn (US$24.7 billionn) after an initial forecast of EUR19.5 billion. more
Related Tags: deutsche-telekom, ptc, 3g, pops, , prepay, eu, roaming, arpu, t-mobile-usa, ict, itu, tim, ovi, t-mobile-uk, sharp, ote, telekom, Germany
There is a Role for Challengers in the European Mobile Communications Market
The global economic downturn has taken its toll on industries across the globe, and the mobile and wireless communications industry is no exception. In the European market, which is highly saturated and competitive, mobile network operators (MNOs) are in a survival of the fittest battle to maintain and expand their market share. On the fringes of this battle are new entrants, challenging established MNOs to stay in the game. more
Related Tags: orange, sim, social-networking, eu, 3-uk, vodafone, mvno, o2, tim, wind, outsourcing, ovi, iden, telefonica, yoigo, 3, movistar, play, UK
Active RAN Sharing Could Save Operators $60 Billion
A new study from ABI Research finds that the worldwide combined OPEX and CAPEX savings from active infrastructure sharing could amount to as much as $60 billion over the next five year period. The study finds that operators could enjoy at least 40% cost savings in addition to those available from passive site sharing. more
Related Tags: 3g, base-station, eu, rural, vodafone, o2, abi-research, capex, telenor, 3, backhaul, tele2, infrastructure-sharing, opex
Future sharing opportunities for Mobile Network Operators
Opinion by Steven Hartley, senior analyst at Ovum
The notion of one network is not entirely far-fetched. After the savings of
passive sharing have been realised, where can future savngs come from? In our
forthcoming report 2020 vision for mobilewe predict that operators will seek
increasingly active forms of sharing. Sharing ever more of your infrastructure
might sound ridiculous today, but all forms of sharing sounded ridiculous ten
years ago.
more
Related Tags: sim, eu, ict, mvno, o2, driving, tim, wind, ericsson, ovum, one-network, backhaul, spice
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: rural, metropcs, leap-wireless, tim, verizon-wireless, verizon, alltel, USA
FMC and femtocell equipment markets poised to take off in face of downturn
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released a report on FMC and Femtocell Equipment, which forecasts that combined, sales of FMC network element equipment and femtocell equipment are expected to grow at a healthy rate through the economic downturn and really take off in 2011, reaching nearly $8 billion worldwide by 2013. more
Related Tags: orange, 3g, nokia, apple, driving, iden, vas, rogers-wireless, ran, infonetics-research, femtocell, fmc, rogers, radio-network-controller