Telekom launches DSL, UMTS broadband in Bavaria

On 03.23.11, In Mobile, By Editor

Telekom Deutschland has announced that people can now enjoy the availability of DSL broadband services, with speeds up to 16 Mbps, in Engelthal in the county of Nuernberger Land, Bavaria.

Services to over 40 households in the district of Sendelbach are available with immediate effect. Moreover, as a part of its continued roll-out of broadband services in rural areas, the operator has launched UMTS mobile internet services in the communities of Aresing and Geltendorf, allowing customers to get online with data speeds of up to 21.6 Mbps.

 

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Telekom upgrades network in Geisenhausen (Germany)

On 03.08.11, In Mobile, By Editor

Telekom Deutschland has upgraded its UMTS network with HSPA+ technology in Geisenhausen (Bavaria).

Following the upgrade, all households in the municipality will now be able to access internet with maximum download speed of 21.6 Mbps.

The upgrade is a part of Telekom’s strategy to upgrade/expand its DSL and mobile network to offer broadband in rural areas, where currently no broadband services are available.

 

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O2 Germany plans to launch LTE on July 1

On 03.04.11, In Mobile, By Editor

Telefonica O2 Germany is planning to launch commercial LTE services on July 1. The news emerged this week, although the operator has made conservative estimates about the speed of its new network.

According to report, O2 Germany did not provide pricing details during a press conference at CeBIT in Hanover, but stated that its new network will offer connection speeds in line with an average DSL connection. By comparison rival operator Vodafone, which launched LTE in Germany in December 2010, offers connection speeds ranging from 7.2 Mbps up to 50 Mbps.

As per German telecoms regulator Bundesnetzagentur’s last report, broadband speeds typically fall between 2 Mbps and 10 Mbps. The watchdog didn’t break down connection speeds by access technology, but in terms of penetration DSL accounted for just below 90% of Germany’s 25 million broadband connections at the end of 2009.

 

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Dovado to offer 4G/LTE ready residential router

On 02.09.11, In Mobile, By Editor

­Dovado, a supplier of mobile broadband routers, has upgraded its product portfolio to support LTE USB modems, beginning with the Huawei E398 which is already being offered by LTE operators in Europe.

The company’s upgraded models 4GR and 3GN are currently being trialed by multinational mobile operators for immediate mass deployment. Both models contain four Ethernet LAN ports, a WAN port for DSL fail-over and the latest 802.11n WLAN standard.

According to Erik Arthur, CEO of Dovado, the emergence of 4G/LTE means that, for the first time ever, mobile operators can rapidly deliver a superior broadband experience at a lower cost than the bulk of fixed broadband alternatives. To suit the consumer needs of sharing these new Internet speeds, they have designed a firmware update which will allow their existing Dovado 4GR and 3GN router owners to migrate onto the 4G/LTE network. With a rapidly growing base of mobile broadband subscribers in the world, a technology such as 4G/LTE will be boosted tremendously, thanks to residential routers, just as DSL experienced nearly a decade ago. Subscribers want an always-on Internet connection which the entire household can benefit from.

Dovado currently supplies cellular enabled residential routers to mobile operators such as Hutchison (3) in Denmark and Sweden.

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Mobile broadband increases in Sweden

On 01.17.11, In Mobile, By Editor

The statistics office has revealed that the percentage of Swedes having mobile broadband connections at home has increased sharply over the last two years. In 2008 every tenth person had access to mobile broadband in the home, while in 2010 more than every fourth person had access.

The most common form of Internet connection in Swedish homes is still via fixed broadband connection through the telephone network, DSL. However, DSL connections are decreasing and instead, connections via 3G or 4G as well as fixed connections via cable TV and fibre is increasing.

About half of Swedish individuals aged 16 ? 74 have DSL as connection form to the Internet in the home.  Roughly one fourth have connections via 3G/4G and nearly one third via other fast connections such as cable TV or fibre.

Since 2005 DSL has been the most common connection form in Swedish homes and the proportion was increasing steadily up until 2009. 2010 is the first year that the proportion with DSL connections is decreasing.

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Telstra’s BogPond starts naked DSL services (Australia)

On 06.04.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The broadband subsidiary of Australian fixed line incumbent Telstra, the BigPond has started a four- to six-week trial of naked DSL services with a view to assessing customer demand. Two different naked DSL products have been tested by Telstra including an enhanced version, offered under the ‘Pure DSL’ banner, which allows customers to receive incoming calls and make outbound emergency calls.

Traditional naked DSL with no dial tone is also offered by Telstra and there would be no additional cost for the version allowing limited call access in order to ascertain the importance of the extra feature. Telstra will offer only one tariff as a part of the trails i.e. downlink speeds of up to 20Mbps with a 25GB data usage limit for AUD59.95 (USD50.11) per month on a 24-month contract.

According to Telstra spokesperson Craig Middleton, initially the offer will only be available to ‘a few thousand’, and responding to queries about whether Telstra would offer the service to wholesale customers in the future and that would be assessed at the end of the pilot programme.

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Vodafone Spain tests HSPA as a DSL alternative

On 02.22.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: With a view to assess HSPA as an alternative to DSL, Vodafone Spain has been conducting tests in the town of San Quirze del Valles, near Barcelona.

Exploding usage of broadband connections has made the operator to conduct this test which otherwise ran fixed and mobile services over a single cellular network. However, additional spectrum is required by WiMAX along with huge investments while the carrier is already struggling to see real ROI from 3G.

Vodafone is now hopeful that the latest upgrades to HSPA will make it more viable as a fixed technology and will be used as the backhaul for a Wi-Fi router.  100 households will be provided with HSPA modems and Wi-Fi access points, in a six-month pilot.

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