By now it’s no secret that the rise of smartphones and dongles is driving wireless broadband usage to epic proportions. And it’s not going to slow down anytime soon – Cisco Systems’ Visual Networking Index estimates that mobile data is growing at a rate of 108% annually, and by many cellco accounts, most of that is being generated by just a fraction of their user base.
If cellcos are desperately in need of offload strategies to deal with the coming mobile data avalanche, it’s their own fault for trying to trying to cram voice and data onto a single network.
Net neutrality is one of the most crucial issues facing the future development of the telecoms industry in general. You can tell from the way that the debate has drifted way off course into hysterical conspiracy-theory territory in the US in recent months.
Ever since the International Telecommunication Union created its IMT-2000 family of 3G technologies ten years ago, 3G has come in two basic forms: FDD and TDD. FDD offered separate spectrum bands for uplink and downlink traffic, while TDD offered upstream and downstream traffic on the same band.
Does anyone remember what the "M" in Wimax stands for? Right, it stands for "microwave" (as in Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access). When the Wimax Forum was established in 2001, nobody expected that this young organization would be challenging the powerful mobile telephony industry in less than a few years.
Most current map applications for smartphones and other devices providing location-based services (LBS) are based on two-dimensional maps.
One of the hot topics at this year’s Mobile World Congress was apps. The good news: consumers want them and will even pay money for them. The bad news: they’re locked into mobile OS platforms that are fragmenting the market for developers – a situation that the mobile industry had been laboring to avoid via organizations like the Open Mobile Alliance.
After eleven days of negotiations, delegates at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December produced a non-legally binding agreement which essenti
The issue of mobile broadband profitability in developed markets today has arisen frequently in discussions with operators and vendors during the last year. Although ensuring profitability is a challenge, there will be ample opportunities over the coming five years for operators to avoid a cataclysm.
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Wireless Asia: After your launch a bit over a year ago, how is uptake of Wimax services?