BEYOND 4G

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…

We are fortunate to watch the evolution of new generation base stations which are playing an ever increasing role in delivering affordable broadband to masses. Commonly referred as compact base stations, are the latest base station design which was recently introduced in to the market by all major suppliers like Motorola, Huawei, ALU, Ericson, ZTE, Samsung etc. They bring 4G operators flexibility and cost savings, while retaining the performance of macro BTSs.

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The industry around TD-LTE is gaining momentum and the appeal of TD-LTE has widened well beyond China. The recent announcement of Qualcomm to bid for TDD spectrum in India to support a TD-LTE deployment confirms the emergence of TD-LTE as global technology, likely to command a substantial market share.

First of all, China mobile is behind TDD LTE global adoption. The operator has announced that it will establish three experimental TD-LTE (time division-long term evolution) networks separately in three coastal cities – Qingdao, Xiamen and Zhuhai – beginning the third quarter of 2010, according to the China-based China Business News and it will migrate its TD-SCDMA based network to TD-LTE as their next evolution.

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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…

Kevin C Tofel wrote an interesting article in Gigaom about the killer combination in Netflix and apple’s new device iPad. Bollywood in India is massively popular and you will find traditional movie stores every corner in Mumbai. These traditional movie rental stores normally have collection of Indian movie titles and some popular Hollywood titles which can be rented at monthly fees of less than US$ 8. I talked to one of the local stores in my neighborhood to get an idea about the number of titles they have in their stores. The percentage was even less than two digits as compared to the number of online titles Netflix (12,000) has for streaming. A US$ 8.99 for unlimited access to enormous collection of titles is a convincing deal. I was apprehensive about my neighbored book and movie stores who nave not realized that “change is inevitable and growth is intentional” Read more…