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This week at Mobile World Congress Adrian Scrase, vice president of international partnerships at 3GPP threw some official light on the topic of what is 4G. "R10 is ‘4G’ in my opinion,” said Scrase, although he noted that the “academic” approach to standards is of little interest to marketeers who have seized on 4G as a new moniker for LTE and WiMAX.” (read the full Total Telecom Article ) This may come as a surprise to quite a few people who have heard 4G announcements from various parts of... -
This week I am writing my blog from the departures lounge of Bonn/Koln Airport – glad to be getting home on a Friday evening and with a feeling of accomplishment for a week’s work well done. The early part of the week was spent in Lisbon at Team Action Week. The location is fantastic, we were lucky with the weather and perhaps a lifting of the spirits seeing blue skies and sunshine after a dark and hard winter helps to focus minds afresh on the work at hand. We met with 3GPP SA5 leaders fresh, or... -
This is as much a question as blog entry. Does anyone know if much research or analysis as been done on the human operator impact of implementing SON? When I first ran across this topic several years ago it seemed to me the SON concept was going to turn the whole way we think about how the day to day management of network procedurally occurs. Taking control from the operators and allowing the nodes to organize and optimize themselves seems to require quite a bit trust from the operators as well as... -
Happy New Year Everyone! I must say I love new beginnings - like the new year, the new decade, even the sense of renewal you get when the new school year starts up and people appear back energised after the summer hiatus. I think these times can never be underestimated for the opportunity they give us to reflect on our priorities, our achievements, our goals. I see them as times of readjustment - sometimes I find I just tweak some small bits here and there, sometimes I take the opportunity to make... -
Last week I had a telephone sales call from my mobile operator. Now I dont get sales calls very often because I have ticked every possible box on every possible form to say no you can't call me, ever. I am also a mean and nasty person and I can't stop myself from having a bit of fun with the poor guy on the other end of the phone. Especially when its someone in the telecoms industry and I often know more about what they are trying to sell me than they do. So when he asked me "was I happy... -
Ever wonder what goes on behind closed doors at Operator meetings? Well last week I got to see for myself as I attended a meeting in Dusseldorf between two rivals in the German market – Vodafone and T-Mobile – who came together to work on a commonly agreed set of top 10 requirements for management of next generation mobile networks. It was an interesting meeting. The technical content in itself is engaging but that is not the topic of my blog today. When the document is finalised and published I... -
Last week 3GPP SA5 met in Shanghai. Among their topics for discussion were two proposals from our group . The first proposal, looks to co-operate with 3GPP to extend the Information Framework (SID) to model wireless networks and their resources. Incorporating the wireless resource model into the Information Framework (SID) will provide the industry’s first model which incorporates both wireless and wireline capability and is an important step for the industry. The second proposal is to study how... -
Here are the 5 things I hope that the next wave of communications technology will make possible for me: I want a data package that I can use at home or away without wondering if I have used my mobile allowance and I am paying per kilobyte from now on and should I wait until I go home before downloading that particular document? I want the same “phone number” wherever I am. No more of this try my landline first, if you don’t get me look for me on skype and if I am not there well try my mobile then... -
At the 4G world conference in September Bruce Brda SVP and GM, Wireless Networks Business, Motorola gave his take on the WiMAX/LTE race and concluded that LTE and WiMax will co-exist in competition. Brda saw the market dividing with traditional mobile carriers going with LTE while greenfields are choosing WiMAX. This Wednesday there was an interesting announcement of a 4G rollout in Ireland from Imagine . Interesting on a number of levels. Firstly Imagine is a landline provider and not a mobile service... -
Thanks to Leen Mak for pointing me in the direction of the UMTS Forum Report 42 "LTE Mobile Broadband Ecosystem -The Global Opportunity". It’s a weighty tome but a highly recommended read for anyone interested in the 4G space. The report goes into a lot of detail about the technology and business drivers behind LTE and the activities of the key players in the LTE Ecosystem. The interesting piece for me was the timescales involved. With the first commercial deployments next year its predicting...
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