Yota contracts Samsung for network deployment in Russia
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Samsung has been contracted by Russian WiMAX specialist Yota for the provision and deployment of a nationwide mobile broadband network. More than 5,000 mobile WiMAX base stations and Access Control Routers (ACR) will be supplied by Samsung to Yota under the contract from March 2010.
Both the companies aim to initially expand the company’s network coverage from three to 15 cities in 2010, before expanding the network to 180 cities nationwide over the next few years. Apart from Russia, Yota is also actively extending its mobile WiMAX services with Samsung in other markets around the globe.
According to Mr. Dennis Sverdlov, CEO of Yota, the company can maximize the time-to-market advantage by reducing deployment time with Samsung, while guaranteeing the same high quality mobile broadband service to customers across the world
Next G price overhauled by Telstra
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: In a bid to keep its arch rivals, Optus and Vodafone Hutchison Australia at bay, the pricing structure of the Next G mobile broadband service of Telstra has been overhauled. The new pricing will be implemented on January 18.
The monthly data allowance of A$29.95 ($27.83) per month entry-level Next G plan to 400MB has been doubled by Australia’s largest mobile operator. A$20 a month off its A$59.95 a month plan offering 1GB of data as also been shaved by the company besides abolishing charges for excess data usage.
Even after the overhaul, the standalone packages of Next G’s will still not be as attractive as those of its rivals. For instance, 2GB of data for A$25 with a 12 month contract is offered by Optus.
According to Ovum’s Australian mobile analyst, Nathan Burley, Telstra has introduced bundled discounts where a customer gets A$10 off their mobile broadband service if they have one other service with Telstra. The discount increases to A$20 if the subscriber has two other services with Telstra.
Besides, the company also has coverage and speed compared with its two mobile broadband rivals.
150Mbps Download Speed achieved by Telefónica, O2 by Huawei’s LTE Network
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Huawei became the first of Telefonica’s trial LTE vendors to have successfully implemented a live trial LTE network performed in the Slough area, the headquarters of O2 in the UK. Cell peak downlink rate of 150Mbps was achieved during the trial.
Recently, Telef³nica, O2 announced the commencement of 4G LTE/SAE (System Architecture Evolution) technology trails. According to Derek McManus, CTO of O2 UK, the successful trials will allow the company to better understand this emerging technology besides helping them to offer mobile broadband services to its next generation customers.
Samuel Sun, Managing Director of Huawei UK feels that the trials will give an excellent reference to Telef³nica O2 for the evaluation of LTE technology.
Alcatel-Lucent will conduct LTE trial for Bouygues Telecom
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Alcatel-Lucent’s LTE equipment has been selected by French fixed and mobile operator Bouygues Telecom for the trial of its mobile broadband services. The field trial programme due to start at various sites in western France in 2010 will witness Alcatel-Lucent as the sole supplier and network integrator.
Through the trials, the operator can evaluate opportunities to introduce new multimedia applications and services. The end-to-end LTE solution supplied by Alcatel-Lucent will comprise base stations (eNodeBs), Evolved Packet Core (EPC) and its associated management system.
As the nineteenth customer to undergo trials by Alcatel-Lucent, Bouygues Telecom will be provided with professional services like project management and planning, installation, commissioning, integrat
ion and test plan execution services.
GSM lobby agrees to Rs 2,000 cr entry fee for 3G spectrum
NEW DELHI: The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) today agreed an entry fee of Rs 2000 crore for 3G services among operators.The GSM lobby has finally agreed on the entry fee, which would be shared by all the national operators. Each operator will have to shell out around Rs 400 crore as entry fee for 3G spectrum.
3G services, a high-end valued added service, will allow operators to offer mobile broadband services like high speed internet, video, video streaming, audio among others.
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Friday in a meeting with the cellular operators had presented the option of charging the spectrum on per Mega Hertz basis. The regulator expressed that the European model could be adopted by India through which Rs 85 crore could be charged per 1 Mhz per operator per service area (PSA).
According to the telecom regulation an operator is allocated a minimum of 5 MHz of spectrum to start its operations. According to TRAI’s proposed model each operator will have to shell out Rs 425 crore PSA, which received stiff opposition from the operators.
With the GSM operators agreeing on the entry fee, it seems that the debate on the pricing would lead to an understanding soon. However, Nripendra Misra, TRAI chief had said that they would submit the recommendations on the 3G policy by September 30.
Source- http://www.ciol.com
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