As per the latest information from industry resources the scuffle for BWA spectrum in India will likely get intense and exchequer is expected to gain some much needed resources for easing their debt situation. India is one of the fastest growing emerging markets in Asia which is also world number two in wireless subscription but [...]

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WIMAX MID’s

On March 15, 2010 By BP Tiwari

VMAX launched internet in taxis to enable their travelers to surf the Internet, watch Web TV, play online games and more in 1000 taxis that have been equipped with Mobile WiMax wireless broadband service. Vmax Telecom, a WiMax network operator in Taipei, has put mobile Internet devices (MIDs) inside 1000 cabs from the M-Taxi company [...]

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The mobile wireless industry is facing unprecedented challenges in meeting the data demands of their subscribers with their desire for fast, mobile Internet. Wireless technologies are often compared on theoretical peak data rates, but it’s actual capacity or spectral efficiency – the average realized data throughputs – is the real metric that wireless technologies should [...]

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The growth of data centric devices is humongous and mobile data will roughly double each year from 2008 to 2013″[1]. According to Cisco average broadband connection generates 11.4 gigabytes of Internet traffic per month, or 375 megabytes per day. Reports from the early 4G mobile WiMAX based broadband networks from Russian and US has some [...]

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By BP Tiwari Intel continues its commitment to worldwide Mobile WiMAX business, with plethora of new chipsets covering all the segments to empower internet based devices. Intel is currently shipping kilmer peak based chipsets which houses 2×2 11n/g and 16e WiMAX in bands of 2.3,2,5 and 3.5 GHz in pinetrail platforms. The other segment fastest [...]

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By BP Tiwari Mobile WiMAX is one of the promising technologies, and it promotes low-cost deployment and service models as well as Internet friendly architectures and protocols. This paper briefly overviews the current version of  mobile WiMAX, mobile WiMAX Release 1.0, which is based on IEEE 802.16e-2005, and expands on the upgraded version, mobile WiMAX [...]

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I am tracking NTT DoCoMo magnum LTE deployment plans in which the operator plans to have 50% of the geography covered with LTE by 2014 and deploying nearly 20,000 macro base stations  [1]. If you recall what UQ President Mr. Takashi Tanakaspan said “We emwill have 50% of the geography covered with WiMAX by 2010 [...]

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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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