AT&T surpassing Verizon Wireless to become second largest wireless operators only after China Mobile in Q1, 2010. AT&T delivered strong wireless growth in the first and second quarter, led by continued growth for mobile broadband services, significant demand for iPhone 4 and iPad 3G and rapid adoption of connected devices such as eReaders, global positioning systems, alarm monitoring systems and a host of other emerging products.
Figure : Quarterly Wireless Revenues (1 Jan 2010 to 31 March 2010)
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The unprecedented levels of the recent India 3G & BWA spectrum auctions will keep broadband access out of the reach of many India’s population while putting significant financial strain on service providers ability to deliver services. It is not my intention to reprimand the whole 3G and BWA auction that took place after repeated delays and embarrassments in India. However the high price of spectrum will make people of India the real defeaters. I am not surprised to read Mr. Mittal’s view in financial express where he commented “The bidding which is happening for broadband wireless access is wrong and the same was the case with regard to the 3G auctions which preceded it. The government may be in a celebratory mood with high revenues, but having bid so high, one thing is ensured: Tariffs for 3G services will remain high and unaffordable for large sections of people.” Mittal added that one year down the line, everyone would come to know who all are able to consolidate 3G services, having bid so high for just 5 MHz spectrum. Read more…
By BP Tiwari
The industry around 4G FDD is clearly evolving towards LTE as major operators committed their plans or intentions to move into LTE. However, the 4G TDD path for LTE is not going to be an easy ride owing to the competition from WiMAX. Most of the current WiMAX deployments are in TDD and operators would certainly like to recover their investments before migrating to any other evolving technologies in near future.
Operators have also realized that the investments made in building network based on WiMAX TDD cannot be turned in to LTE-TDD overnight even if they like to. Clearwire for instance acquired more than 300k subscriber last quarter marking its entry to 1 Million mobile broadband clubs. If they choose to migrate to LTE, what will happen to those 1M wimax devices? By the time TDD LTE matures clearwire will acquire anywhere between 3 to 5 Million subscribers and upgrading a 5 Million serving WiMAX network to a new TDD LTE RAN might just not be a practical case. I am sure Yota , UQ, Atheeb, Taiwanese WiMAX operators and new WiMAX deployments expected in India would also face with similar dilemma. Read more…
By BP Tiwari
Mangos are my favorite summer fruit. I buy most of my mangoes in Mumbai at a nearby local shop. Back in my hometown we buy most of the mangos from local mango market; otherwise it comes from our mango farms. I am on vacations these days and visiting my parents in my hometown. Yesterday , in a cheerful mood my mother said, why don’t you sell those excess mangos to market? I was all excited to experience the selling session of mangos in the local mango market. Fortunately our mangos are of good quality and I was eager to make a good impression of skilled mango seller in front of my parents. Read more…
By Guest Contributor – Richa Singh
When Albert Einstien was asked on what got him to introduce the theory of relativity to the world he said “It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.”
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. Its said there’s a boundary line to music. But with the collaboration of Pandora and Facebook , the boundary is indefinite. Pandora is the perfect destination for anyone who wants to listen to Internet radio catered to their interests and their particular mood at the time. Read more…
By Guest Contributor: Richa Singh
One of the most well enjoyed human endeavors these days is social networking. It is mainly because we get to communicate with anyone from any part of the worldwide web by texting, chatting and VOIP or voice over internet phone. There are both great opportunities and huge risks in social networking, similarly to what has occurred with other extremely useful capabilities and technologies that have emerged and gained popularity in society. Using social networks have gained the opportunity and ability to influence many more people than before.
“On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” (Steiner, 1993), suggests that identities are so hidden online that opportunities would be widely open to all, regardless of background characteristics that may have traditionally disadvantaged some people compared to others. Read more…
Executive Summary
It’s been a dream run for voice in India. India positions itself as number two nation in new world order. However the broadband leadership is dominated by Southkorea, Japan, Hongkong, Sweden, Switzerland, Netherlands, Singapore, Luxemburg, Denmark and Norway.
India ranked 62 in global broadband leadership scale, with average download and upload speeds recorded way below than the needs of current internet applications. The current internet visual applications require consistent 2Mbps downlink and 1 Mbps uplink data rates. Read more…
It’s been an enthralling opening week for iPad . Over 500,000 iPads were sold during its first week, and we found apple mentioning “demand is far higher than we predicted and will likely continue to exceed our supply over the next several weeks as more people see and touch an iPad™. We have also taken a large number of pre-orders for iPad 3G models for delivery by the end of April.”
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Location based services is a fundamental enabler of new services in wireless data access systems. A number of location based innovations are transforming the way we experience places, interact with other people, communicate and shop- virtually in aspects of our daily lives. A major difference between mobile broadband networks and fixed networks is that the former can be subject to location changes. This provides a huge opportunity for location based services (LBS) which have very broad potential to integrate with high performance mobile services. General LBS include the updating of maps, provision of information on the location of shops, service points, etc., depending on the location of the user. Read more…
I think QUALCOMM and Ericson are making a lot of effort to accelerate the market of TD-LTE in Indian BWA spectrum. I have high regards to their outlook and also respect their companies view and strategy; however I also have some facts to report which might give you data points to form a practical opinion.
Fortunately, I had the opportunity to meet executives from Qualcomm, Ericson and Nokia as the spectrum auctions are approaching. We discussed range of interesting topics especially their intentions for pushing TD-LTE and maturity of TDD-LTE for a commercial deployment in a very price sensitive market.
Data Point 1 : China Mobile is shifting from their current plans of 2.3 GHz to 2.5 GHz as 2.3 GHz is extensively used by military of China and hence suppliers claim that CMCC will provide enough ecosystem development opportunity for India to achieve economics of scale is not very rosy. This is a fresh development and will have impact on TD-LTE products in 2.3 GHz frequency. Immediately, CMCC, Clearwire and other TDD proponent submitted new work item in 3GPP group to prioritize the development of TD-LTE in 2.5 GHz. Read more…
