If it is Monday, it must be COTM! Scoot over to Carnival of the Mobilists at Andrew Grill’s London Calling to get the latest news and insights in the mobile industry. I found Chetan Sharma’s report on the 3G Americas Analyst Summit – especially his comments on LTE vis-a-vis HSPA interesting:
I think given the current [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘HSPA’
October 21, 2008
Carnival of the Mobilists #146
September 18, 2008
LTE – Loooong Term Evolution?
LTE (the GSMA-adopted roadmap to 4G for GSM/UMTS carriers) has been getting a lot of attention of late. Verizon Wireless plans to begin network deployment in 2009 (using their newly acquired 700MHz spectrum) with full network deployment in 2010 and beyond. AT&T has also announced LTE rollout plans in 2012. Vodafone is also making the [...]
September 9, 2008
Puzzled by Cox!
I have to admit that I am slightly puzzled by Cox’s decision to go the CDMA route for their wireless network in the 700MHz band. Apparently Huawei beat out both Alcatel-Lucent and Nortel to win the business. Cox spent more than US$304 million on 22 licenses during the 700MHz-spectrum auction that wrapped up in March. [...]
September 2, 2008
Deeper Dive into Mobile Broadband Growth in Austria
Austria shows that mobile broadband can be a significant threat to the old DSL-fixed line business. As shown in the Figure, the last three quarters for Mobilkom Austria have witnessed mobile broadband subscriptions exceed DSL subscriptions, thanks to a significant uptake in datacards / USB dongles and internet-enabled smart phones. The main driver for this [...]
August 26, 2008
HSPA subscriber numbers – Reality Overtakes Hype
The GSMA, the global trade group for the mobile industry, releases a quarterly report on the growth (or lack of growth) of GSM, GPRS/EDGE, W-CDMA and HSPA subscribers, terminals and operators. In the latest report (August 2008), it announced that the number of worldwide subscribers using Mobile Broadband (HSPA) networks has topped the 50 million [...]
