Beyond 4G

Source: fiercewireless Mobile broadband is clearly exploding. Verizon Wireless, in the midst of deploying its LTE network, is running to catch up with Clearwire, which is pushing mobile WiMAX into more markets while at the same time working to fund the rest of its buildout (to the benefit of Sprint Nextel). Meanwhile, AT&T Mobility is accelerating its own LTE plans while at the same time building out a HSPA 7.2 upgrade. And T-Mobile USA, long the laggard in 3G, may actually eek out a lead with an upgrade to HSPA+ sometime next year Read full article... .

Source: gigaom Huawei Technologies said today it’s brought on telecom industry veteran Matt Bross as its chief technology officer, a position that up until now he’d held at British Telecom. With this move, it’s even more clear that Huawei wants to shed its image as an upstart Chinese maker of cheap telecom equipment rip-offs. And that’s not good news for Western equipment suppliers — everyone from Alcatel-Lucent to Ciena Corp. should be worried. Read full article...

Source: nojitter The Verizon LTE truck was in town last week giving a road show on their 4G plans and seeking enterprise input for future applications. While they are still about a year away from having LTE running in 25-30 large metro areas, now is the right time to start planning for the next generation of cellular applications. What Verizon will be able to offer with their LTE network is: * 5 Mbps-12 Mbps download, 2 Mbps-5 Mbps upload, with a latency of <30ms. Great for real-time, high bandwidth, interactive applications such as video conferencing and gaming. * Nationwide licensed coverage with great in-building penetration thanks to their purchase of the 700Mhz spectrum and using LTE technology. Alaska appears to be the exception Read full article... Verizon LTE Innovation center

As 2010 and the first launches of Long-Term Evolution (LTE) networks approach, the global mobile industry is understandably buzzing with speculation about the potential impact of the first entirely new radio technology to be deployed in a decade. With LTE set to become a short-term reality, rather than a long-term vision, it is easy to overlook the extraordinary impact of another young technology – HSPA. Now a standard feature in smartphones, netbooks and many laptops, HSPA is spreading mobile broadband services across the world and, in tandem with HSPA+, could ultimately emulate the longevity and widespread usage of GSM. Read full article...

Source:Telecom Paper Telefonica has inked agreements with six technology providers to launch LTE trials in six different countries. Via these trials, Telefonica aims to roll out 4G networks in the different regions where it operates. Telefonica has selected Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Huawei, NEC, Nokia Siemens Networks and ZTE to deploy the equipment necessary for testing the technology during the coming months. Scheduled for development over the next six months, the project consist of field tests and the installation of e-node Bs. Telefonica plans to use the LTE technology to provide peak speeds of up to 340 Mbps in ideal conditions and increase its networks' capacity to offer broadband mobile services. The countries selected for testing are Spain, the UK, Germany and the Czech Republic in Europe, along with Brazil and Argentina in Latin America. Full Article...

Source : Telecommunications Review , Korea This month's issue of Telecommunications Review (from SK Telecom) features papers on LTE-Advanced and IEEE 802.16m Mobile WIMAX and its evolution towards IMT Advanced Network Architecture for 3G LTE & WIMAX LTE IPR Demystifying

LTE Mobile Broadband Ecosystem: the Global Opportunity by UMTS Forum Source: 3GPP press release The UMTS Forum have made their latest Report - LTE Mobile Broadband Ecosystem: the Global Opportunity available for free download. The study is based on over 30 interviews by Ovum with operators, vendors, regulators and standards bodies, plus end user research with 550 respondents in the US, Korea, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, the UK and Spain. It considers both consumer and enterprise market segments, as well as vertical markets that will benefit from the deployment of LTE. A fairly comprehensive up-to-date market study report provided by UMTS Forum. The report itself can be downloaded from here. - BP

Source: Samsung Electronics,Kr Datak Telecom to introduce Iran’s first Mobile WiMAX Wave2 service with Samsung WiMAX solutions Seoul, Korea, September 13, 2009: Datak Telecom, one of the largest Broadband Internet Service Providers in Iran, has selected Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a leading provider of telecom systems and mobile phones, as its sole WiMAX equipment vendor to bring the first WiMAX Wave2 service to Iran. The Installation and deployment of Samsung’s WiMAX network equipment will begin in Tehran this month and the first commercial Mobile WiMAX service will be introduced in the second quarter of 2010. Samsung is providing a full range of Mobile WiMAX solutions,including base stations, access service network gateways, and all the related equipment and services “WiMAX service is perfect for the Iranian market where the population reaches 75 million but the internet penetration is still very low,” said Babak Arshad, CEO of Datak Telecom. “The cooperation with Samsung...

Russian operator Yota is selling worlds first HTC 4G handset ( WIMAX + GSM )at ~860 US$. This devices is especially designed for Yota by HTC. It has huge 3.8 inch glass screen with WWGA resolution ( 800*400 pixels) Supports WIMAX,Wi-Fi,Bluetooth , GSM, GPRS, EGDE.Built in GPS & 8 GB Memory . Yota offers 2 years of free music download with every new connection. It has impressive 50K online music tracks for users. This device has dozen’s of TV channel to choose from & supports photo blogging. Earlier Yota TV was nominated to GSMA TV services on MWC 2009. Yota TV: Features: 20+ channels Satellite TV quality TV Schedule (tomorrow / day after tomorrow) Two display modes (compact and fullscreen)

Source : CMOTECH Cmotech , The korean device manufacturer has unviled ‘Hotspot’ of WiMAX, HSUPA, and EV-DO Rev.A. HSUPA & EV-DO are currently popular in the world IT Market, and still have a lot of potentialities says Mr. Lee. CEO (CMOTECH). We are seeing attraction for WiMAX hotspot in recent times. Website : http://www.cmotech.com/eproduct3.htm Thanks

Poor countries have already benefited hugely from mobile phones. Now get ready for a second round, says Tom Standage ( Interview Here...) Download full Report here .... Thanks,BP BOUNCING a great-grandchild on her knee in her house in Bukaweka, a village in eastern Uganda, Mary Wokhwale gestures at her surroundings. “My mobile phone has been my livelihood,” she says. In 2003 Ms Wokhwale was one of the first 15 women in Uganda to become “village phone” operators. Thanks to a microfinance loan, she was able to buy a basic handset and a roof-mounted antenna to ensure a reliable signal. She went into business selling phone calls to other villagers, making a small profit on each call. This enabled her to pay back her loan and buy a second phone. The income from selling phone calls subsequently enabled her to set up a business selling beer, open a music and video shop and help members of her family pay their children’s school fees. Business has dropped off somewhat in the past cou...

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Source : Nytimes Sprint Nextel has taken to boasting that it offers “the first wireless 4G network.” What does that mean? Sprint’s advertisements do not say. The company assumes that most people, dizzy from the tornado of technobabble, will figure that whatever a G is, when it comes to mobile communications, four of them must certainly be better than three. In many ways, they are right. The fourth generation (the G) of cellphone technology can carry Internet data for smartphones and laptops as much as four times as fast as the current third-generation systems, and within a couple of years, most big carriers in the United States will offer some version of it. Full Article from ny times....

­The LTE/SAE Trial Initiative (LSTI) says that it has successfully completed and reached the objectives of the TD-LTE (LTE TDD) Proof of Concept Milestone 3 and Milestone 4 test phases: Demonstration that the basic LTE/SAE functionality and performance are achievable with pre-standards prototype equipment. Time-Division Duplex (TDD) is the application of time-division multiplexing that separates transmit and receive signals. Full Article ....

Source : WSJ Online Save possibly for Sprint, no one's pushing WiMAX harder in the US than Clearwire -- but the commitment doesn't run as deep as you might think. Investing billions in a 4G network that goes brashly against the popular LTE grain is a huge gamble since Clearwire and its partners won't be able to throw as much weight around with manufacturers or achieve the same economies of scale that LTE carriers will, but these guys were smart: CEO Bill Morrow claims that the company has unprecedented flexibility built into its infrastructure, and he's willing to switch gears if LTE or something else ends up burying WiMAX down the road... Full Article....

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Source : Telephony online Could new rich communications services and core network support for new 4G wireless architectures like LTE be IMS’ silver bullet? As vendors and service providers prepare for next month’s SUPERCOMM show in Chicago, discussions on the topic of IP multimedia subsystem and next-generation networks are focused on steady growth, despite the downturn, as well as on leveraging the IP software architecture for more than just voice services. Early IMS deployments have been largely focused on supporting voice-over-IP (VoIP) services and duplicating existing voice network functionality. It’s for that reason, perhaps more than any other, that IMS uptake has been relatively slow. There just hasn’t been a sense of urgency, or the available capex, to move the network back to where it already started. Read more...

Source : Information week Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Wireless is planning to light up its Long-Term Evolution (LTE) nationwide network next year in one fell swoop rather than deploying it in a traditional market-by-market rollout, according to Tony Melone, the firm's senior vice president and chief technology officer. The rollout "will be as close to all-at-once as possible," Melone said in an interview in which he noted that the firm is right on schedule with its LTE wireless technology. "We want to give our customers a significant footprint," and won't "tease," them he said, with trial deployments. Readmore...

CHICAGO—Just after Kris Rinne finished touting AT&T’s ability to use HSPA to smooth the carrier’s transition to LTE, Ericsson’s Ulf Edwaldsson made the same argument yesterday at 4G World: HSPA is the smoothest way to get to LTE. “HSPA and LTE mobile broadband will do for the Internet what 2G did for voice,” said Edwaldsson, head of Ericsson’s Product Area Radio. He cited the network buildout of Australian operator Telstra. “[Telstra] is a tremendous example of technology, opportunity and… a new vision.” Read full article...

Source : Telecoms It’s been a busy summer for the LTE crowd, with the technology gaining some considerable traction among early adopters in Europe, Japan and the US, and all eyes on 2010 as the year Long Term Evolution goes commercial. Full Article

Source : Wireless Week Without a doubt, mobile broadband is today's growth engine for the telecom industry. Despite the current global economic slowdown, AT&T witnessed a 37.2 percent increase in wireless data revenue to $3.4 billion during the second quarter of 2009, adding more than 2.4 million iPhone customers. And even though Verizon Wireless didn't quite have the iPhone-centric sizzle, their wireless data revenues were still up 52.6 percent in the same quarter. Similarly, Intel reported solid second-quarter earnings due in part to strong sales of its Atom chips for netbooks and other mobile computers. The emerging picture is clear: Consumers want mobile broadband, and they want it now. View Full Post

Source:Nokia Siemens Network Press Release China Mobile Communications Corporation (China Mobile) and Nokia Siemens Networks have successfully demonstrated how to ensure excellent indoor coverage for future mobile broadband. The two companies have conducted the world’s first TD-LTE femtocell demonstration. Nokia Siemens Networks’ innovation aims to support future TD-LTE rollouts, a next generation mobile broadband technology. User habits indicate that the majority of mobile broadband capacity will be consumed inside homes and offices where coverage is typically lower than outdoor spaces,” said Huang Xiaoqing, General Manager of China Mobile Research Institute. “Miniature wireless base stations like Femtocells can improve the indoor service experience of our customers. Further more, TD-LTE Femtocells can fully leverage the advantages of TDD frequency, provide a fast and flexible indoor coverage solution and effectively manage network capacity and cost.” Nokia Siemens Networks’ Beijing r...

LTE has been announced by NTTDoCoMo as a part of wider strategy to deliver new era of advanced mobile services . This includes building high speed , low latency , large capacity network implementing LTE from 2010. NTT DoCoMo is planning to invest US$ 3.6 B for their LTE network & expects to complete its nationwide rollout by March, 2013.Japan alone is poised to contribute 7.5 M LTE subscriber by 2013 as per Informa. This comes in light of committed investment from KDDI ( US$5.5 B) & SoftBank( US$ 3.5 B) taking total investments in Japan alone to US$ 12.5 B. DoCoMo believes that LTE will enable a new era of advanced mobile applications. The characteristics of network (low latency, high speed & capacity) will optimize the allocation of functions between the handset & network. Devices & applications servers will therefore be more intimately linked. Trails have focused on live video , multi-user online gaming , user running simultaneously applications like HD-Video stre...

Qualcomm's time frame for delivering its first Long Term Evolution (LTE) silicon samples for data cards is slipping, which means initial LTE data cards might not come to market until the second half of 2010. While that's not an uncommon occurrence, it's not good news for Verizon Wireless, which has an aggressive LTE deployment schedule with the goal of launching up to 30 markets by the end of 2010. Qualcomm had originally planned to begin sampling of its MDM multi-radio series chipsets in the second quarter of 2009, but now says it is on target to provide engineering samples in the third quarter. ST-Ericsson, Qualcomm's main rival, is understood to be planning to ship an LTE chip in the same time frame. Source : http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/qualcomms-time-frame-lte-silicon-slips/2009-07-22#ixzz0RiMsP2Qn

Currently general internet services and applications such as email, information searching and general online browsing are the top of the user’s preference surpassing all other services by a significant amount. With introduction of mobile broadband technologies such as LTE , email, information searching and general online browsing are expected to stay at the top of the list. The major changes occur in the media group and users expect to make greater use of all media related services with online betting/gambling generate little interests. Expected growth of the major services like Mobile TV( which will primarily be internet delivered over the top streaming services rather than broadcast or multicast TV), Video call and video download have the highest growth rates . As noted earlier the type of video media accessed has implications for the broadcast industry, as internet –based TV and user generated content has the ability to reduce advertising incomes. Online shopping and mobile , bloggi...

Russian innovative wireless broadband service operator Yota is planning to expand its reach from current two cities to nationwide coverage. Greenfield Russian operator under the brand name Yota has earlier launched its commercial service in two Russian cities, Moscow & St. Petersburg in June. Since its commercial launch, WiMAX specialist has already acquired 100,000 active subscriber & adding 10,000 subscriber per month. The company is now planning to expand its WiMAX coverage nationwide. Estimations from independent infrastructure suppliers have shown encouraging figure which might be as high as in order of 20,000 Base Stations. Further Yota is already in process of procuring large quantities of in building base stations which are commonly known as Femto & Pico cell to expand in building coverage in Moscow & St. Petersburg. Operator is eying Femto/Pico deployments starting from November, 2009.

Tel Aviv, Israel, September 2, 2009 — Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world’s leading provider of WiMAX™ and wireless broadband solutions, today announced that its Board of Directors has named Eran Gorev to succeed Tzvika Friedman as president and Chief Executive Officer. The transition will take place during the fourth quarter, with Mr. Gorev assuming full day-to-day responsibility in December. “We are pleased to welcome this highly-regarded executive to the company,” said Anthony Maher, Chairman. “Eran Gorev brings an impressive track record of success in world-class organizations including NICE Systems, Amdocs, and Digital Equipment Corporation. His global experience, particularly in customer-facing roles with Tier 1 carriers, leading enterprises and governments, and strong corporate leadership skills are ideally suited to build on the achievements of Tzvika and the entire Alvarion team.”

US-based WiMAX specialist Clearwire has announced that it has contracted Chinese equipment supplier Huawei Technologies to provide wireless radio access network infrastructure for its planned nationwide WiMAX rollout. Huawei will provide several key infrastructure pieces, including base stations, element management system (EMS) components, and related network hardware and software. The company joins a number of other suppliers contracted to help with the network deployment as Clearwire plans to install 20,000 WiMAX base stations to achieve nationwide coverage. Clearwire’s chief technology officer, Dr John Saw, said: ‘Our new network is specifically designed to deliver an unmatched combination of 4G speeds, capacity, and mobility to meet the growing demand for wireless broadband services. As such, we have designed an all-IP network that is efficient, low-cost and scalable using standards-based technology from industry-leading providers. Our existing agreements with Motorola, Samsung, Ci...