Tag: 3g

  • Infonetics Research:  LTE Leadership in Wireless Infrastructure, IMS, VoLTE, and CAPEX

    Infonetics Research: LTE Leadership in Wireless Infrastructure, IMS, VoLTE, and CAPEX

    LTE and Wireless Infrastructure: Infonetics Research reports that LTE spending is up 128% from the year-ago first quarter, and the number of mobile operators committing to LTE continues to increase rapidly. The prestigious market research firm forecasts the LTE equipment market to grow to $17.5 billion in 2016.   In its 2G, 3G, 4G (LTE and WiMAX) Infrastructure and…

  • Sprint to use Clearwire’s TDD-LTE to augment its own LTE network

    Sprint to use Clearwire’s TDD-LTE to augment its own LTE network

    The squabbles, break ups and make ups between Sprint and Clearwire have become worthy of a prime time soap opera.  Sprint has been reselling Clearwire’s mobile WiMAX network (CLEAR) and offering its own branded “4G” smart phones along with a Samsung tablet that works on CLEAR and Sprint’s 3G network.  But earlier this month, Sprint announced it wouldn’t be supporting…

  • Emerging Devices and M2M Team Up for Explosive Growth- Part 2

    Emerging Devices and M2M Team Up for Explosive Growth- Part 2

    Editors Note: This is the 2nd of 3 articles that explore new telco markets and opportunities. Much of the information gathered for these articles comes from the 2011 Connections conference in Santa Clara, CA. The 1st article, New Telco Services Enable the Connected Home, described different versions of a “connected home,” including consumer electronics for…

  • ITU-R Progresses LTE Advanced and WiMax 2.0 as 4G RAN standards

    Introduction: Did you think the version of LTE being deployed this year and next (3GPP Release-8) and Mobile WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e-2005) were 4G technologies?  They're actually both 3G technologies which are included in ITU-R M.1457-9 Detailed specifications of the terrestrial radio interfaces of International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 (IMT-2000). In reality, it's the ITU-R's IMT Advanced family of recommendations that…

  • Will the iPad be a revenue driver or bandwidth killer for mobile operators?

    Disclaimer: This author has no business relationship with Pyramid Research or parent company Light Reading. Introduction: Mobile operators will be among the biggest beneficiaries of the Apple iPad's success, thanks to the iPad's use of mobile data services to access applications and digital content, according to a new report from Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com), the telecom…

  • India’s 3G Auctions Finally Begin; BWA for TD-LTE or WiMAX?

    After many months of delay, India's 3G spectrum auction began today (April 9th) with major telecom operators, including Bharti, Vodafone, RCom and Tata competing to acquire the radio waves that could fetch the government up to Rs 35,000 crore. [Definition:  A crore (often abbreviated cr) is a unit in the Indian numbering system equal to ten million…