Analyst: 3.5G Laptops May Choke Mobile Networks
News Berg predicts laptops with HSPA/LTE (high-speed packet access/long-term evolution) mobile broadband connectivity will grow from 8.4 million in 2007 to 49 million in 2013 — a compound annual growth rate of just over a third.
[June 23, 2008, 9:43]
2007: The Year In Communications
News WiMax is also available — on a limited scale — as a commercial service in the UK, but testing of LTE has yielded even more impressive speeds. Having already paid billions to provide 3G services, mobile operators have been understandably keen to see...
[December 21, 2007, 15:15]
Femtocells May Usher In Next-gen Mobile Networks
News Simon Saunders, chairman of the Femto Forum, explained: "As early adopters find LTE interesting or WiMax interesting they can be provided with both a terminal — a user device, say a next-generation mobile data card or a USB dongle or whatever...
[July 1, 2008, 10:47]
Photos: Mobile Mania At 3GSM
News Even Vodafone's Arun Sarin is starting to sound worried, warning that members of the GSM Association "need to make sure that LTE [the long-term evolution of 3G] is not still at the standards stage when WiMax is a commercial reality".
[February 16, 2007, 13:46]
Mobile-broadband Push May Be Slow To Bear Fruit
News WiMax, which operates on Wi-Fi hotspots, and cellular-based technologies HSPA and LTE (the long-term evolution of 3G) are seen as competing platforms. Such devices today are predominantly connected by USB modems, or dongles, he added.
[October 3, 2008, 8:16]
WiMax Gathers Steam
News As next-generation cellular technologies — including those of the Long Term Evolution (LTE) project, whose mission is to guide the evolution of GSM cellular networks — have trouble getting off the ground, the industry has been turning its...
[March 27, 2007, 10:57]
