Do we ever have Mobile WiMAX in India? I think it is reasonable to say that , by the end of 2010 we will have at least top 10 markets in India covered by Mobile WiMAX with minimum of 2 operators. This is really a big push for wimax community and broadband in country. The [...]

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By BP Tiwari , www.beyond4g.org Wireless community has stated numerous times about the importance of 700 MHz band which is considered “beachfront property”, implying that this band is very valuable. But why is it valuable? The simple rationale most often cited is that the 700 MHz band has better propagation characteristics. Smaller cells at 2.6GHz [...]

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By BP Tiwari I was reading an article by Andrew Mitchell in which I found KDDI president and chairman, Tadashi Onodera in MWC, “explained to the audience that the economics of mobile broadband and flat rate pricing are “a big headache for operators.” The panel also reviewed the challenge operator’s face in finding ways to [...]

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Managing data networks

On February 17, 2010 By BP Tiwari

BY BP TIWARI I was reading the newest report from Cisco VNI studies and it is worthy to note some of the following data trends which were captured in collaboration with 20 leading Internet service providers. Cisco published “The growth of data centric devices is humongous and mobile data will roughly double each year from [...]

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LTE! WiMAX adversary or ally

On February 15, 2010 By BP Tiwari

By : BP Tiwari I was reading a recent article from beccem semiconductors who apparently has biggest market share in wimax chipset about their intent to launch a new chipset which will support LTE. Beceem vice president of business development Lars Johnsson clarified that “Beceem isn’t taking the much bigger LTE chipset market head on—at [...]

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Uplink MIMO in WIMAX Networks

On February 11, 2010 By BP Tiwari

BY : BP Tiwari The majority of the terminals that we have in current mobile wimax networks are 1 Tx in uplink and 2Rx in Downlink. The advantage of having two receive antennas in downlink allows use of advanced antenna configuration like STBC(space time block codes) and SM (spatial multiplexing ) to achieve higher spectral [...]

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By : BP Tiwari I have been observing emergence of new 4G technologies for last couple of years and one of the most talked multi antenna concepts is beamforming. BF is one of the much awaited technologies that helps operators to increase capacity in network and also helps in overall network quality by reducing interference [...]

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By : BP Tiwari The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is expected this summer to provide final approval for the 802.16m standard, also known as “WiMAX 2.” Two operators who are bullish for 16m are clearwire and Yota. U.S. ISP Clearwire, currently the largest company to offer commercial WiMAX services in the United States, [...]

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LTE Tutorial

On February 6, 2010 By BP Tiwari

Lte Tutorial View more presentations from ppsong. More LTE Videos at 4GVideo.net

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New Report : Path to 4G

On February 5, 2010 By BP Tiwari

Source : 3G Americas Wireless data consumption is increasing faster now than ever before,” said Adrian Scrase, 3GPP Head of Mobile Competence Center. “Smartphone usage is experiencing higher volumes and the superior user experience offered by such devices is resulting in quickly rising demand and escalating use of wireless data applications. This is consequently driving [...]

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