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What caught our eye at CeBIT 2009
News HSPA+ is currently being trialled by operators such as Vodafone, as an interim measure before the long-term evolution (LTE) of 3G, or so-called '4G', becomes a reality. This year's CeBIT technology show was a more trimmed-down affair than the usual...
[March 6, 2009, 7:02]
EC proposes TV spectrum for WiMax
News Because this is a much lower frequency range than the 2.6GHz and 5.8GHz bands currently mooted for WiMax and 3G's long-term evolution (LTE), it offers the possibility of far larger cell sizes. UHF spectrum should be allocated to WiMax once Europe's...
[June 13, 2007, 11:30]
One small step...
Blog In a few hours, I shall be rested, fed and ready for Orange action, UMA, LTE, APIs, TV, Symbian.but all through the filter of what new services will work, what will make money, and how does a mobile operator deal with a commercial landscape where...
[December 15, 2008, 4:26]
Ericsson claims 500Mbps speeds over copper
News It also proves Ericsson's abilities to provide future mobile backhauling, which will enable quick and cost-effective introduction of long-term evolution (LTE) solutions. Ericsson has successfully demonstrated data-transfer speeds of more than...
[March 16, 2009, 16:01]
The Big Interview: William Webb
News The proponents of so-called 4G — and even the "long term evolution" (LTE) of 3G — claim they can provide both higher bandwidth and great range, but Webb does not think this plausible. Professor William Webb is a man walking something of a tightrope...
[December 12, 2006, 11:42]
WiMax to 'cover the UK' within two years
News The long-term evolution (LTE) of 3G, Patel said, was "at least two to three years out before it can happen", and would not be significantly cheaper than investment in WiMax because it would also require operators to "rip out and replace their...
[May 8, 2008, 14:07]
Next decade holds new twists for comms technology
News LTE and other post-3G technologies will lag behind on speed, but are likely to become more prevalent as netbooks and tablet PCs are adopted as primary computing devices. Predicting what will happen in the next decade of communications technology is...
[December 17, 2009, 14:53]
Next decade holds new twists for comms technology
Articles LTE and other post-3G technologies will lag behind on speed, but are likely to become more prevalent as netbooks and tablet PCs are adopted as primary computing devices. Predicting what will happen in the next decade of communications technology is...
[December 17, 2009, 14:53]
WiMax joins 3G family
News He also noted that the "long-term evolution" (LTE) of 3G should also use "the very latest radio access technologies and techniques for utilising spectrum". WiMax has effectively been folded into 3G's future development, after the International...
[October 19, 2007, 17:57]
Qualcomm exec offers glimpse of mobile future
News So you end up with all of these different technologies — GSM, WiMax, CDMA, HSPA+, LTE and so on and so forth — and none of them going away anytime soon… So the challenge is to incorporate all of those technologies.
[May 7, 2009, 16:41]
Freescale and ARM promise £140 netbooks
News The profusion of connectivity types (HSDPA, LTE and so on) requires too costly an investment and is likely to lead to industry consolidation, he said. Chipset manufacturer Freescale on Monday unveiled an ARM-based blueprint for cheap, low-cost...
[January 5, 2009, 16:16]
Mobile WiMAX's hidden problem
Blog Mobile WiMAX's closest future competitor, LTE, has decided not to use ODFM for the uplink for precisely these reasons. If you take the industry's word for it, mobile WiMAX -- 802.16e -- is serenely sailing on towards deployment.
[June 6, 2008, 14:33]
Mobile World Congress: The final analysis
News Once operators have become bit-pipe providers — as ISPs are now — and all handsets are just standardised terminals, perhaps the only hope for continued progress will be the introduction of competing technologies like mobile WiMax and the long-term...
[February 15, 2008, 14:46]
