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			    <title>3G, HSPA+ &amp; LTE  | TelecomYou! NewsCenter</title> 
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			<title>True first to punch with LTE in Thailand - TelecomAsia.net</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[As AIS hard-launches its 2.1-GHz HSPA networkread more]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 03:10:02 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Telecom NZ to launch 4G in Auckland in October - PC Advisor - Google News</title>
			<link>http://www.telecomyou.com/newscenter/news/telecom-nz-to-launch-4g-in-auckland-in-october-pc-advisor</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Times of IndiaTelecom NZ to launch 4G in Auckland in OctoberPC AdvisorAs part of an investment program, Telecom New Zealand has installed dual carrier HSPA+ on more than half of its mobile sites. It is also rolling out optical transport network technology to its network core. &quot;We&#039;re co-locating on all of the government&#039;s ...Telecom New Zealand to Begin Rollout of 4G Network in OctoberFox BusinessHuawei to build Telecom&#039;s 4G networkRadio New ZealandTelecom NZ 4G network targets October launch, chooses Huawei buildZDNetNew Zealand Herald -TVNZ -South China Morning Postall 23 news articles »]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 07:00:02 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Global macrocell mobile backhaul equipment market reaches $8bn - telecoms.com</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The global macrocell mobile backhaul equipment market rose seven per cent year on year to reach over $8bn in 2012
The global macrocell mobile backhaul equipment market rose seven per cent year on year to reach over $8bn in 2012, according to research firm Infonetics Research.
According to the firm, Ericsson is the mobile backhaul microwave equipment market leader. Meanwhile China’s Huawei and French-headquartered Alcatel-Lucent are neck and neck, jointly leading the ethernet access device/gateway and ethernet router revenue markets.
“While its revenue growth rate is slowing, macrocell mobile backhaul equipment remains a huge market, with annual spending up in the $8bn to $9bn range over the next years. Just a few years ago in 2009, the market was worth under $5 billion,” said Michael Howard, principal analyst for carrier networks and co-founder of Infonetics Research.
“When we add to the picture small cell backhaul equipment, which we believe will total a cumulative $5bn over five years it becomes clear that the backhaul market is massive. The key drivers are the ongoing HSPA/HSPA+ onslaught across the 3GPP world and growing LTE deployments by 3GPP2 players. If you don’t have packet backhaul, there’s no way to handle HSPA and HSPA+. Ethernet and microwave backhaul spending are fueling the whole market.”]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 08:20:01 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Nokia Siemens to deploy 3G network for BH Telecom in Bosnia and Herzegovina - TelecomTiger - Google News</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[TelecomTigerNokia Siemens to deploy 3G network for BH Telecom in Bosnia and HerzegovinaTelecomTigerNokia Siemens Networks will provide the 3G HSPA+ radio access network and related services for BH Telecom subscribers in northern and eastern parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Subscribers of BH Telecom will enjoy an overall improved communications ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:15:01 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>LG launches Optimus LTE III on SK Telecom network - Telecompaper (subscription) - Google News</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[LG launches Optimus LTE III on SK Telecom networkTelecompaper (subscription)LG Electronics has released the Optimus LTE III on SK Telecom&#039;s network in South Korea. The successor to the Optimus LTE II is supports LTE and HSPA+ networks and is NFC capable. The phone is powered by a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor, comes with 2 ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:35:01 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Trailblazing US operators coming close to using up available spectrum - telecoms.com</title>
			<link>http://www.telecomyou.com/newscenter/news/trailblazing-us-operators-coming-close-to-using-up-available-spectrum</link>
			<description><![CDATA[US operators see that within a few years, they could be in trouble with regards to spectrum
Much has been made of the perceived spectrum shortage in the US. While operators will arguably never be satisfied with the amount of spectrum they possess and will always welcome more, in terms of MHz available per subscriber in the market, the US does look as though it is lacking in comparison to other major markets.
“US operators see that within a few years, they could be in trouble with regards to spectrum if they don’t act now,” warns Mike Roberts, principal analyst and head of Americas at Informa Telecoms &amp; Media.
Help is on hand though, as US regulator the FCC has ambitious plans to make more spectrum available to the market. The regulator aims to make 500MHz of additional spectrum available within ten years, predominantly through freeing up spectrum used by television broadcasters in the country. While the plans have gained approval, they will take time, and operators will seek out short term solutions in the meanwhile .
Each carrier is going about boosting their spectrum portfolios in different ways, using different bands, strategies and even different technologies to deploy 4G services. “Advanced Wireless Spectrum (AWS) is one of the big bands here, for sure,” says Roberts. “Another big band is the 700MHz band, which is being deployed with LTE.” Verizon is leading the race to reach full nationwide LTE coverage, deploying it in the lower band of 700MHz spectrum that it recently acquired. At the end of 2012, Verizon’s LTE network covered 260 million people, and there are around 300 million people in the country.
The operator is reaching remote rural areas by partnering with regional providers, as part of its Rural America programme. In November last year, Verizon announced that it had entered into an agreement with regional carrier Cellular One. Under the agreement, Verizon Wireless is leasing its 700MHz upper C block wireless spectrum in parts of Texas.
Using the spectrum, Cellular One will construct and operate an LTE network serving its own customers, Verizon Wireless customers, and customers of other LTE networks that are Rural America participants. Cellular One customers will also have access to Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE network throughout the United States.
In January 2013, Verizon also signed a deal with rival AT&amp;T to sell its excess 700MHz spectrum licenses for $1.9bn in cash plus AWS licences in several states. The 700MHz licenses cover 42 million people in 18 US states including California, Florida, New York, Texas and Washington.
According to AT&amp;T the acquisition complements its existing holdings in the 700MHz B band and will allow the operator to quickly expand its 4G LTE services to meet demand. The company announced that it plans to reach 300 million people in the US with its 4G LTE network by the end of 2014.
AT&amp;T has been aggressively pursuing more spectrum after its bid to take over T-Mobile USA failed last year. Not only was the transaction blocked by authorities, AT&amp;T had to pay its rival $4bn as a consequence. In response, AT&amp;T has looked to acquire smaller firms for more spectrum, such as the retail wireless operations of Atlantic Tele-Network, which operates under the Alltel brand, which it bought for $780m in cash.
Under terms of the agreement, AT&amp;T acquired wireless properties, including licenses, network assets, retail stores and approximately 585,000 subscribers. The move took AT&amp;T’s subscriber base to just over 107 million, putting it about seven million customers behind market leader Verizon.
The operator does not plan to stop there though, and in November, AT&amp;T announced plans to expand its LTE network over the next three years in an initiative dubbed Project Velocity IP, or VIP. It will spend $14bn over the course of the project, with $8bn going on wireless connectivity and $6bn on wireline. It said the aim was to enhance its network to support the growth of mobile applications and cloud services.
Meanwhile, Sprint has also expanded its LTE service in the country, as it continues to develop its Network Vision project. The operator introduced its 4G LTE network in July 2012 and in late January 2013 it extended its coverage to include Austin and Bryan/College Station in Texas; Columbia, Tennessee; Emporia in Kansas; Fort Wayne, Indiana; Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and Framingham and Boston in Massachusetts.
The operator has also significantly improved its 3G service in Puerto Rico and expanded 4G LTE to reach more regions in the country, including Aguadilla, Isabela, Cabo Rojo and Mayagüez.
Sprint also looked close to sealing an acquisition of Wimax player Clearwire; after it gained ownership of a 50 per cent stake in the firm and made a bid of $2.2bn for the remaining shares. However, the deal is now up in the air after US satellite player Dish Network Corporation made a competing bid at a higher price than Sprint’s offer.
T-Mobile USA, the last of the four major national carriers, announced in January 2013 that it would switch on its LTE network in Las Vegas very soon. But the carrier will not officially offer any LTE enabled devices at launch.
“There will be a period when networks are up but we don’t have devices yet,” T-Mobile’s CTO Neville Ray admits. The firm has been making do without LTE thanks to a widespread HSPA+ network offering up to 42Mbps downloads, which is faster than LTE in some areas. However, the operator said it hopes to cover a population of 100 million with LTE by summer 2013.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 06:40:07 CST</pubDate>
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			<title>Real world LTE test puts Japan in slow lane - telecoms.com</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Japanese LTE services are comparatively sedate, according to OpenSignal
With over 60 countries having launched commercial LTE networks, it’s no surprise that data speeds are not globally uniform. What might come as a surprise though is the claim that Japan, with one of the most advanced mobile markets in the world, has the slowest LTE experience at 7.1Mbps download. While Sweden, home of the first commercial LTE network, has maintained a crown with the fastest experience at 22.1Mbps on average.
The data comes from OpenSignal, a crowd-sourced coverage mapping startup funded by Qualcomm Ventures, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures &amp; Passion Capital. With three million users worldwide, the company uses an Android app to track signal strength and coverage of mobile networks in Europe and the US.

To give some idea of the difference between the Swedish and Japanese experiences, OpenSignal found that 10.4 Mbps is the average LTE download speed globally. But the company said that it is important to remember that the actual speeds experienced by users on LTE can be markedly different, not simply between countries but also across carriers. It’s interesting to note that the countries where the fastest average speeds were recorded tend to be ones where the population is heavily concentrated in a small number of urban centres. Countries with a population that is more evenly spread seem to perform slightly worse, perhaps due to the difficulty of rolling-out LTE over a larger geographic area, OpenSignal said.
The company’s application measures how the network is experienced and is considerably affected by device variance. Still it does claim to show how the LTE networks actually perform for the people that use them.
“This goes some way towards explaining why Metro PCS registers such slow LTE speeds, its users are generally on lower spec devices. That being said, we still record MetroPCS as being the slowest LTE network on high end devices as well, this is likely explained by the fact that Metro PCS is using a 5MHz channel while most US carriers are using 20MHz channels that have the ability to deliver much higher speeds,” the report found.

It’s true that a good number of carriers worldwide are investing in HSPA+ in order to sweat their existing assets before upgrading to LTE, but OpenSignal’s observations raise some interesting comparisons between LTE and wifi, which is now acknowledged as a cellular offload technology.
The full report is available here
Even though LTE is not ‘true 4G’ according to the standards bodies, OpenSignal still records it at around seven times faster on average than 3G, but it’s also considerably faster than wifi. However, when comparing the speed of LTE to wifi it is important to remember that the 3.2Mbps figure is a global average and therefore contains within it a vast spread of infrastructures and technologies.
That’s not to say that LTE is definitely faster than wifi, the firm said, adding: “This does point towards exciting possibilities for countries that are bypassing fixed-line internet service provision. Countries like India, which consumes primarily cellular data, will be able to use LTE technology to provide broadband speeds without the enormous infrastructure costs associated with laying cable to the home.”
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			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:00:01 CST</pubDate>
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			<title>3UK to offer LTE without price premium - telecoms.com</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[3UK will add LTE later this year
The UK arm of Hutchison’s 3 has announced that it will not price LTE services at a premium to its existing offers. 3UK is currently bidding for spectrum in the UK LTE auction and said in a statement on Monday that the technology will be added to its network “later this year”.
But it will not be any more expensive than the firm’s current offering. “Unlike some other UK mobile operators, [LTE] will be available across all existing and new price plans without customers needing to pay a premium fee to ‘upgrade’,” the firm said.
Its comment about “other operators” was directed at Everything Everywhere, which stole a march on the rest of the UK mobile operator community by launching LTE in refarmed 1800MHz spectrum towards the end of 2012. EE has priced LTE higher than its 3G/HSPA services, although it cut its prices in January, leading some people to conclude that uptake had been disappointing.
EE is also well aware that its first-mover advantage is shortly to expire and is clearly trying to attract as many users onto long contracts as possible.
But EE’s price cuts and 3UK’s announcement on Monday reflect the fact that users are not widely inclined to up their spend for faster network access.
“If the price of a service is well above a consumer’s income or disposable spending levels then they are simply not going to buy it,” says Jaco Fourie, senior BSS expert at Ericsson. “If you have more than 100 per cent penetration in a market then you might get a bump from the early adopters when you first launch [a new technology] but when you get to the mass market you will grow at GDP—end of story.”
3UK CEO Dave Dyson said: “As we add the next wave of technology to our Ultrafast network, we’ve listened to our customers and thought long and hard about the right way to do it. We don’t want to limit Ultrafast services to a select few based on a premium price and we’ve decided our customers will get this service as standard.”]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:10:01 CST</pubDate>
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			<title>French MVNO Joe Mobile launches HSPA+ plan with international bundle - PrepaidMVNO</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[SFR&#039;s MVNO Joe Mobile has launched a dual-carrier HSPA+ service, for € 20 a month for unlimited calls, SMS and MMS and 3 GB of data a month]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:15:02 CST</pubDate>
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			<title>MTN Uganda announces LTE roll-out plans - telecoms.com</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The roll out of LTE in Africa continues apace as MTN announces that it will be launching a network in Uganda in 2013. The subsidiary of the South African network has announced plans to upgrade its network to offer speeds of up to 100Mbps and said it would be investing $70m in network infrastructure during 2013, following on from the $80m it said it spent in 2012.
MTN Uganda said that over the past two year it has introduce HSPA+, enhanced its core network and extended its fibre network by laying more than 2,800km of optical fibre, while builing regional switching centres across the country. The company said that this has brought internet to one million of its citizens for the first time.
“The continuous CAPEX investment by MTN is aimed at providing our customers with the best possible user experience across the country. We would like to ensure consistently reliable network quality for all existing customers and also to enable many more new subscribers to enjoy the mobile technology.” said Rami Farah, MTN Uganda’s CTO, in a statement.
As far as a launch date is concerned the company is keeping its options open and said that the network would arrive in the, “coming months”.
Parent company MTN has recently launched LTE in South Africa in three cities, Johannesburg, Durban and Pretoria.
The LTE Africa conference is taking place on the 16th-17th July 2013 in Cape Town, South Africa. Click here to download the flyer for the event.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:00:01 CST</pubDate>
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