T-Mobile USA begins to offer 42Mbps download speed
T-Mobile USA has announced that it has upgraded its HSPA network in selected areas to support a peak-rate download speed of up to 42Mbps. T-Mobile customers in Las Vegas, New York and Orlando, will be the first in the country to experience the increased speed, followed closely by Chicago and further expansion of the New York network.
By mid-year, T-Mobile expects 140 million Americans in 25 markets to have access to increased mobile download speeds.
According to Neville Ray, Chief Technology Officer, T-Mobile USA, as T-Mobile continues the aggressive expansion of America’s largest 4G network, they are doubling their maximum speed in more than two dozen markets, starting with three important cities today. They will continue to build on their 4G network advantage this year, providing customers with an industry-leading mobile data experience.
As T-Mobile’s 4G network continues to expand and become faster, the company’s portfolio of 4G products is also growing. T-Mobile has announced plans to deliver 25 HSPA+ capable devices this year and this spring will introduce seven new 4G-capable devices.
According to Cole Brodman, Chief Marketing Officer, T-Mobile USA, access to mobile content is central to the experience on a vast and growing number of consumer devices, exponentially increasing the demand for fast 4G mobile broadband connections. In fact, data traffic on T-Mobile’s network is quadrupled year over year.
Verizon doubts running new Nokia phones (USA)
Verizon expects that there will be three dominant smartphone operating systems but worryingly for Nokia, Microsoft won’t be one of the suppliers.
Verizon Communications, Chief Technology Officer, Tony Melone confirmed that he wanted a strong third player in the smartphone OS market, as it gives the carriers more flexibility and balances the interests of all the parties.
Despite the concerns about Windows Phone 7, the company will still release models running that OS later this year, although that happens before Nokia is expected to get its own models into the market.
Nokia has traditionally been weak in the US market, partly due to its lack of CDMA handsets for the Verizon and Sprint networks. The carriers themselves were generally wary of offering Nokia handsets due to its – since resolved – CDMA patent battle with Qualcomm, which they could have been dragged into.
Melone added that even if Nokia starts building CDMA devices again, it would be very difficult for the company to get its handsets into Verizon shops in the near future.
He stated that Verizon’s device pipeline for 2011 shows strong relationships with LG, Samsung, Motorola, HTC, and now Apple.
T-Mobile Austria lifts Mobile data download speed
T-Mobile Austria has upgraded its mobile network to support mobile broadband download speeds of up to 21Mbps. Nokia Siemens Networks has provided the improvement with its HSPA+ network software.
The upgrade shortens voice and data call set-up and response times (known as latency) while increasing data speeds and improving smartphone battery life.
According to R¼diger K¶ster, Chief Technology Officer, with people wanting to be connected round the clock, there’s a growing demand for mobile broadband, resulting in an increase in data traffic. The HSPA+ upgrade from Nokia Siemens Networks delivers better voice telephony and data services for their customers.
T-Mobile Austria aims to boost mobile data speeds to 42 Mbps.
Nokia Siemens Networks previously helped T-Mobile Austria modernize its 3G network in 2009.
Mobile Networks may reach 650Mbps Data download speed (USA)
Nokia Siemens Networks believes that operators would be able to achieve peak data rates of more than 650Mbps, owing to a HSPA standard being driven by itself and T-Mobile USA. Long Term HSPA Evolution would improve mobile broadband with speeds matching those promised by LTE Advanced.
According to Nokia Siemens Networks, the technology‘s standardization is aiming to make it available for commercial deployment by 2013. The proposed key features of Long Term HSPA Evolution were accepted during the plenary meeting of 3GPP RAN held on 7-10 December, 2010.
According to Neville Ray, chief technology officer, T-Mobile USA, the company strongly believes in continued HSPA evolution in parallel to the further development of LTE and LTE Advanced. Long Term HSPA Evolution will allow us to enhance their 4G mobile broadband network beyond its current and planned near term capabilities, and provide room for considerable growth and speed enhancements. As customer demand for wireless data increases, they are well positioned to compete based on the speed, breadth and evolution path of their mobile broadband service.
Nokia Siemens Networks’ Single Radio Access Network (RAN) platform is already prepared for Long Term HSPA Evolution. Operators would have a smooth evolution path to handle increased network traffic along with controlling costs with the introduction of the new technology.
In addition, all Long Term HSPA Evolution features are backwards compatible and can be used together with existing WCDMA and HSPA mobiles on the same carriers.
Ex-BT CTO joins HUAWEI
Huawei, a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, today announced that Matt Bross, the former BT Group Chief Technology Officer and CEO of BT innovate, has joined Huawei as its Chief Technology Officer, with effect from October 1.
In this role, Mr. Matt Bross will focus on identifying global telecommunications industry and network architecture trends that will guide Huawei’ s continuous customer-centric innovation of products and solutions. He will also support the company’ s efforts in delivering the latest products and solutions for North American customers.
“We warmly welcome Matt Bross to Huawei,” said Mr. Ken Hu, Executive Vice President of Huawei. “Mr. Bross is a communications technology visionary with a wealth of industry experience. He is also a business leader with a strong spirit of innovation and will help Huawei better understand customer requirements to create more business value.”
“I am honored to join a dynamic company such as Huawei. The company’ s solutions, developed through customer-centric innovation, have won wide recognition among the world’ s top operators. I look forward to working closely with Huawei’ s technology and management teams in developing a world-leading solutions portfolio that fully meet customer requirements,” said Mr. Matt Bross, Chief Technology Officer for Huawei.
Mr. Bross has had a long and distinguished career in the telecommunications industry. Most recently, he was Group Chief Technology Officer of BT Group and CEO of BT innovate, responsible for technology strategy, vision and innovation across all BT divisions. Mr. Bross was a driving force behind BT’s 21st Century Network transformation program and led a global BT technology and research organization that spanned the Asia-Pacific, the U.S. and Europe. Previously, Mr. Bross held senior positions at ConTel, MasterCard,Critical technology a company he founded and Williams Communication.
TATA and BSNL enter Network Sharing deal (India)
Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL), India’s fastest-growing pan India telecom service provider, today announced the signing of a landmark ‘Master Services Agreement for Passive Infrastructure Sharing’ with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL).
Becoming the first Indian private telecom operator to enter into an agreement of this nature. The agreement which is valid for 15 years will be applicable to both Tata Teleservices Limited and Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited in all of India’s 22 telecom Circles.
This is a moment of pride for us, as we have become the first private telecom operator to enter into such a strategically important agreement with BSNL, one that will allow us to expand our telecom footprint across the country much more quickly,†Mr Madhav Joshi, President, Legal and Regulatory Affairs, Tata Teleservices Limited, said.
The agreement comes at a very strategic time for Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL) and Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited (TTML), as both companies have been aggressively expanding their network presence on the CDMA side with Tata Indicom, while also rolling out GSM services under the TATA DOCOMO brand name. In the short space of just three months, we have already rolled out our GSM services in nine Circles—Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Orissa, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Mumbai, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh and Haryana,†Mr AG Rao, Chief Technology Officer, Tata Teleservices Limited, said. This agreement has the potential to not just speed up our network expansion and rollout process, but would also have a substantial impact in terms of reduced costs,†he added.
Under the terms of the agreement, TTSL and TTML will have access to thousands of BSNL towers all across the country.
Mobile, global is aim of cell phone makers
JEJU, South Korea — Most mobile phones you buy in South Korea don’t work in Japan, while a phone bought in the United States may or may not work in Europe.
Consumers have long faced a perplexing alphabet soup of terminology involving disparate wireless technologies and radio frequencies when simply seeking to buy a phone to call business associates or loved ones from anywhere in the world.
The engineers of tomorrow’s mobile technology are hoping to change that.
At a forum last week sponsored by Samsung Electronics Co. on South Korea’s Jeju island, the architects of tomorrow’s wireless future — referred to as fourth-generation technology — discussed ways to help them meet the challenge of true worldwide mobile roaming.
Finding a common radio frequency that could be used anywhere in the world isn’t a simple task, given the current airwave clutter among cell phone, police radio, satellite and other wireless transmissions.
Studies are seeking to determine whether frequencies now in use by other technologies could be shared with new devices that would be able to sense when those channels are busy or free to transmit.
Another idea to free up frequencies would be to reallocate ones now given to obsolete technologies or those that don’t see heavy use.
Agreeing on a single global frequency would also be a key to allowing the new technology to work seamlessly worldwide.
“It’s essential this time that the fourth generation, whatever that means, is indeed a global technology,” said Alberto Ciarniello, a vice president at Telecom Italia SpA of Italy.
Consumers shouldn’t have to spend thousands of dollars for devices that can work with various competing technologies to be able to roam worldwide, said Ali Tabassi, a vice president from U.S.-based Sprint Nextel Corp.
But as is often the case with trailblazing technology, a potential format and frequency war is taking shape, along with a debate over how quickly the industry should move.
Some companies are supporting the technology known as Mobile WiMax, a burgeoning standard now coming into use that has been strongly backed by U.S. chip maker Intel Corp. It offers relatively fast connections over a long range, but not the kind of superfast speeds that are considered the realm of the fourth-generation future.
“We cannot wait for another three to four years for another technology platform to support the Internet-everywhere dream,” said Bin Shen, vice president for broadband at Sprint Nextel, which plans WiMax trials by late 2007 before launching the service in the United States in 2008. “We believe Internet is like air and oxygen in people’s lives in the future.”
There already are limited trials of Mobile WiMax under way in South Korea, with plans to cover the capital, Seoul, by early next year. However, in a sign of the difficulties in deploying a worldwide standard, the South Korean system uses a different frequency than the one planned for Sprint Nextel’s future network because of government restrictions.
Samsung has backed WiMax and is a partner in commercializing the technology in South Korea and the United States.
But at the same time, Samsung is using the forum to show off another potential next-generation technology. The South Korean company is one of several working to develop a standard for a lightning-speed data transmission that hasn’t yet been named and won’t be agreed upon until at least 2010, meaning it won’t be in consumers’ pockets for years.
Some say that’s too long to wait.
“Why can’t users today connect to the Internet everywhere they are?” asked Siavash Alamouti, chief technology officer for Intel’s mobile wireless division. “We’ve got to do it as fast as possible.”
Source- http://seattlepi.nwsource.com
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