Saturday, 31 October 2009 Source: 3G4G Wireless I keep on hearing about OTT apps everywhere I go nowadays. I know roughly what they mean but I couldnt find a proper definition anywhere. Here is my attampt to write a bit about what OTT means. Traditionally lots of services like Voice and Television for example is [...]

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Published on Monday, October 26 2009 2:59 pm by saeba The ultra-light, power-saving X-Slim Series X340 and X600 models are the first Taiwan-based brand to receive WiMAX Forum Certification. On October 26, MSI will participate in Broadband Taiwan. At the international WiMAX product & application area, portability & the latest generation of mobile communications technology [...]

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Source: Telecoms.com Taiwanese Mobile WiMAX operator VMax Telecom teamed up with Korean equipment manufacturer Samsung on Monday to demonstrate what they claim is the industry’s first Mobile WiMAX roaming service. At the Broadband Taiwan conference, Samsung and VMax demonstrated a Mobile Internet Device called Mondi registered on the Clearwire network in the US, roaming on [...]

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Source: Telecoms.com The rise of the smartphone since Apple launched its genre-defining iPhone has been credited with many things. High on the list is the long-awaited arrival of meaningful progress in the sphere of location enabled services. And it wasn’t the conception of a particular service that gave LES this fillip, rather it was the [...]

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by telecoms.com editorial An extensive measurement campaign was carried out between June and August 2009 to assess the effect of mobile broadband optimisation on Internet access through notebook/netbook computers. Measurements were performed in and around London on all UK mobile networks offering mobile broadband products and conducted so that the results were comparable, regardless of [...]

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Source: Telecoms.com As communication service providers voice revenues decline, data has become the driver of revenue growth. However future revenues from data are threatened, by the explosion of non-revenue generating traffic, from over-the-top applications and Web 2.0 services. Efficient ‘bit’ delivery will not be enough. Operators need the means to innovate, to use their key [...]

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The Ultra Mobile Device (UMD) market – that is, the shipments of UMPCs (Ultra Mobile PCs), netbooks, MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices) and mobile consumer electronics devices combined – is expected to achieve a 385 million unit size in 2014. The diversity of form factors and device types we see today will likely continue as vendors [...]

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Source : Cellular News Huawei says that it has successfully completed the world’s first test for LTE self-organizing network (SON) with T-Mobile in Innsbruck, Austria. Through the solution’s ability to configure, optimize and recover automatically, Huawei said that the LTE SON will offer operators operational cost savings associated with network planning, network deployment and network [...]

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Although mobile network operators and technology suppliers are firmly committed to LTE as the cornerstone for 4G networks, major disagreements about the importance of including voice service as part of early LTE deployments could lead to the kind of industry fragmentation that adversely affected 3G rollouts, according to the latest report from Unstrung Insider. “Nearly [...]

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Source: ZD net Motorola is back in a big way. Motorola’s Droid made a big splash two weeks ago when it debuted in a Verizon teaser ad during prime-time across the country and slammed America’s favorite smartphone, the Apple iPhone. Now that it’s finally been fully revealed, it’s clear that the Droid has become the [...]

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