Posted by Sabah Hussain
August 27th, 2008
So far we have seen some of the biggest operators throw thir weight behind LTE and many expect others to follow the likes of NTT DoCoMo, Verizon and France Telecom. But what about the smaller operators? With WiMAX being chosen by many small operators who especially in emerging markets and TDD licences being much chpeaer […]
Posted in News
Posted by Sabah Hussain
May 12th, 2008
Which will be the technology of choice for operators over the next two years or so? With Mobilkom in Austria, demonstrating the worlds fastest I-HSPA/HSPA+ call with Nokia, LTE will have to wait its turn and a WiMAX deployment seems unlikely. But what are other operators likely to do? Is HSPA+ having a negative affect […]
Posted in News
Posted by Sabah Hussain
April 22nd, 2008
With the industry giants Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, NEC, NextWave Wireless, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks and Sony Ericsson coming to a mutual agreement on keeping IPR patent royalties below 10%, what will this mean for other vendors? Many innovative manufacturing companies and innovative start ups thar rely on selling IPR may become marginalised. Is such an agreement […]
Posted in News
Posted by Sabah Hussain
April 14th, 2008
Earlier today I was talking with Yves Bellago of France Telecom about spectrum availability and whether 20MHz channels are possible. It was interesting to hear that he thought that 20MHz channels might be available in the 21GHz band and possibly the 1800MHz band but also believed that operators could get the benefits of LTE with […]
Posted in News
