Russian WiMAX specialist Yota has announced that since its commercial launch it has added 60,000 net new subscribers to its wireless internet services, giving it a total of 100,000 active subscribers, including customers that bought into the service during its test phase. The company launched its services in Moscow and St Petersburg on 1 June [...]
Continue Reading →Korea’s leading electronics maker and the central government-financed research institute succeeded in demonstrating the newest and fastest version of wireless mobile Internet technology. Now, people can use faster high-speed Internet on their mobile phones and other digital devices. Due to the new technology’s enhanced data transmission speed, Korea is expected to gain an edge over [...]
Continue Reading →Mobile WiMAX Release-1 products based on the IEEE 802.16e-2005 Air Interface Standard are already field-proven with deployments having begun in 2008. Independent studies have predicted that there will be over 130 million WiMAX subscribers by the year 2013 The close cooperation between the WiMAX Forum Technical Working Group and the IEEE 802.16m standards team, has [...]
Continue Reading →LTE subscriptions will reach 100m in just over four years, faster than any previous mobile standard. LTE subscriptions will grow at a CAGR of 363% from 2010 to 2014, when there will be 137m subscriptions worldwide. Growth drivers include extensive vendor and operator support, aggressive equipment and network deployment targets, non-traditional embedded devices, a high [...]
Continue Reading →KDDI announced that it would start deploying LTE and is looking to complete the deploymenr by 2012. The contract was awarded to Motorola and NEC a few days ago.The deal includes base stations from Japan’s NEC and although the announcement gave no idea of the breakdown of the orders, but most analysts seem to think [...]
Continue Reading →Source: Heavy ReadingPacket Backhaul: Carrier Strategies & Real-World Deployments examines how much progress has been made in deploying packet backhaul at cell sites worldwide, using information from 50 highly detailed examples of live packet backhaul deployments submitted by nearly two dozen of the world’s leading backhaul equipment vendors. The report provides the first insight into [...]
Continue Reading →Source: Global mobile Suppliers Association press releaseA new survey by the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) just released confirms there are now 39 LTE network commitments worldwide. This is an increase of 50% compared to a similar survey undertaken by GSA in March 2009, and confirms the growing commitment and support for LTE as the [...]
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