Articles tagged with: Wifi and Bandwidth

Nearly 44 Million HSPA Connections in APEJ by Year-End

High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) technology, in both handsets and dongle form factors, has experienced strong growth in Asia/Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) in the past 18 months, with IDC forecasting 43.6 million HSPA connections in the region at the end of 2009.  more

Related Tags: high-speed-packet-access, hspa, lte, 4g, broadband, ev-do, union, 802.16m, video, ofdma, imt-2000, 2g


Wi-Fi Usage by Smartphones Impacting Mobile Content Revenues

Mobile billing service provider, Bango has warned that over 20% of people visiting web sites to purchase content using their mobile phones are now connecting via Wi-Fi. The firm says that this presents a major challenge to both content providers and operators as these mobile visitors are unrecognized by the networks, making it difficult to sell and market mobile services to them and hence impacting mobile content revenues.  more

Related Tags: bango, analytics, wi-fi, smartphone, chipsets, windows, billing, mobile-billing, mobile-content, google-android, nokia,, connect, mobile-analytics


Averting radio spectrum saturation, opportunistically

Mobile users want better video calls, streaming television and faster downloads, placing more demands on the limited radio spectrum available to operators. Could handsets that intelligently sense their radio environment and opportunistically grab free bandwidth be a solution?  more

Related Tags: rfid, 3g, base-station, oracle, intel, eu, ict, tim, rcom, mts, ovi, radio-spectrum, one-network, base-stations, network-management, uplink, military, television


Embedded 3G laptops over-hyped: Will account for just 30% of Mobile Broadband subscribers by 2011

The near-term importance of new embedded-3G and embedded-WiMAX notebooks has been significantly over-estimated, according to a new research report published by Disruptive Analysis. Even in three year's time, laptops with built-in wireless access will only be used by 30% of total, active mobile broadband subscribers globally. External USB modems (or "dongles") will account for 58% - almost twice as many.  more

Related Tags: prepay, iphone, sms, smartphone, wimax, apple, apple, smartphones, hspa, usb-modem, mobile-broadband, netbooks, lte, dongle, usb-modems, hotspot, notebook, 3m, wwan, target, usb, congestion, modems


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