Articles tagged with: Wimax and GSM

LTE Infrastructure Spending Overtook WiMAX in Second Quarter

LTE equipment spending passed wimax for the first time in 2Q11, with the global LTE market at about US$600 million and wimax at US$500 million, according to market research firm, Infonetics Research. more

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Jordan Announces Delayed 3G License Tender

Jordan's telecoms regulator, the TRC has published the tender document for its 3G licenses. The regulator has set a reserve price of JOD25 million (US$35.5 million) per block of 5+5 Mhz spectrum. Bidders will also be able to bid for an optional block of GSM spectrum, enabling any new entrant to provide both 2G and 3G services. more

Related Tags: orange, 3g, 3g-license, tim, ovi, zain, trc, 2g, Jordan

Smartphone sales buck the recession

A report by Infonetics Research is forecasting an 8% drop in the total number of mobile phones sold in 2009, to 1.1 billion worldwide (down from 1.2 billion in 2008), in line with predictions from Nokia, among others. Smartphones were the best-performing segment of the mobile phones market in 2008 and the only segment to show unit and revenue growth in the second half of the year as the world economy entered recession. more

Comsys Mobile Offers WiMAX-GSM Handset Reference Platform

Fabless semiconductor vendor, Comsys Mobile has announced the launch of their latest ComMAX reference design platform, the CM1125RD - an optimized multimode mobile wimax/GSM-EDGE smartphone reference design platform. Based on the ComMAX CM1125 baseband processor and integrating solutions from Comsys Mobile's partners, it incorporates all the features and functionalities required of smartphones, from antennae up to application processor. more

Related Tags: m1, 3g, semiconductor, smartphone, mobile-wimax, voip, edge, smartphones, gps, wimax-forum, ovi, battery, ims, life, fm-radio

Hong Kong Undreground Railway Extension Gets Mobile Phone Coverage

A major extension to Hong Kong's mass transit railway will feature another wireless communications network from wireless confined-coverage system solutions provider, Radio Frequency Engineering (RFE). Enlisted by mobile network operator, SmarTone-Vodafone, RFE will design, supply, install and commission a turnkey commercial wireless communications solution for the MTR's new LOHAS Park Station and tunnel extension. more

Orange Launches a GSM Network in Uganda

France Telecom, through its Orange brand has launched a new network in Uganda. Last October, France Telecom took over the national GSM license held by Hits Telecom Uganda after buying a 53% stake in the firm. more

Related Tags: orange, 3g, sim, lte, mtn, zain, customer-care, france-telecom, gsm-license, utl, Uganda

HSPA Drives Mobile Infrastructure Market Growth in 2008

According to a recently published report by Dell'Oro Group, the worldwide total mobile infrastructure market revenue grew 5 percent in 2008, driven by the nearly doubling and quadrupling of revenue of the WCDMA and wimax markets, respectively. more

Related Tags: 3g, base-station, smartphone, wcdma, smartphones, driving, lte, cdma, hspa, mobile-broadband, dell, true, 2g

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, eu, lte, mts, hspa, hsupa, hspa+, umts, prague, 3g-network, 2g

Nokia Siemens Networks Wins Chinese Contracts Worth $1.1 Billion

China Mobile and China Unicom have separately signed agreements to purchase 2G and 3G mobile equipments and services from Nokia Siemens Networks during 2009. Under the framework agreements Nokia Siemens Networks will roll out WCDMA networks for China Unicom in 11 provinces across China. In addition, it will provide China Mobile with TD-SCDMA and GSM networks. more

Global Mobile Market to Exceed US$900 Billion in 2008

A report from IDATE says that the world telecom services market is estimated at US$1,365 billion in 2008 - a 4.2% increase over the year before - and is expected to be worth over US$1,416 billion in 2009. With a total turnover estimated at US$742.2 billion in 2008, mobile services account for 54% of the telecom services market and single handedly deliver all of the sector's growth. But the annual growth rate has dropped from more than 12% in 2007 to 8% in 2008. more