Tag: lte
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Pyramid Research: Middle East Will Surpass Europe in LTE Early Adoption
Introduction Despite the early LTE lead of Telia-Sonera in Sweden, Pyramid Research predicts that the Persian Gulf countries of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and UAE will pioneer Long Term Evolution (LTE) adoption and surpass European LTE deployments. The LTE penetration rate for those countries is expected to reach 11.8 percent, which is more than the projected…
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Clearwire and Sprint ask 3GPP for TDD-LTE U.S. std in 2.6GHz band
Introduction Clearwire and Sprint are part of a group of operators and vendors that have asked the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standards body to start work on specs that would allow TD-LTE to be deployed in the US in the 2.6GHz spectrum — which is now used for mobile WiMAX in the U.S. The actual 3GPP…
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Viodi View – 03/31/10
Sponsorship Opportunities Available for.. ViodiTV at IP Possibilities Sponsor highlighted in IP Possibilities Daily Sponsor highlighted in Viodi View & ViodiTV Custom video highlight of sponsor. Video available for website. The passage of the health care bill along with all of the political wrangling of the past couple of months greatly overshadowed the FCC’s…
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AT&T Upgrades 3G Network while VZW On Track with LTE Buildout; IDC’s Market Forecast
Introduction On the eve of the CTIA WIRELESS 2010® show in Las Vegas this week, the two biggest U.S. wireless carriers are pursuing different paths to eliminate current 3G bandwidth congestion, provide higher speeds to users and achieve lower cost per bit transmitted. These initiatives are extremely important for the health of the wireless industry,…
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Intel to battle Qualcomm for mobile computing leadership
Update from Intel Development Forum in S.F. and Qualcomm open house in Santa Clara, CA last week. Introduction For those interested in mobile computing and mobile WiMAX, there were several important take-aways from last week’s Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco. CA. Most importantly, Intel made it clear that they intend to dominate the…
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What will extend 3G networks- topology tricks or price and policy controls?
We’ve previously written that "the pump is primed for mobile broadband, " but investments in next-generation networks will be needed to deliver on the true promise of the mobile internet experience. While we still believe that, we now offer an alternate hypotesis. That the 4G mobile Internet is many years away. After some investigation and a…