Entries for October 2011
monica.paolini posted on October 18, 2011 17:25
In the days when voice dominated and traffic loads were easily manageable, mobile backhaul was a boring business. But the massive growth in data traffic driven by smartphone adoption and usage, coupled with more spectrally efficient air interfaces such as HSPA+ or LTE, have added increased pressure on backhaul requirements.
As a result, the backhaul market has become a much more exciting place, with better growth prospects, more innovation driven by more exacting requirements and greater competition. These factors are driving prices to a point that even U.S. operators have taken notice and begun to question their own commitment to optical fiber.
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Posted in: 3G, 4G, LTE, Mobile broadband, Wireless broadband, Wireless data, Heterogeneous networks, Small cells, Data traffic, Backhaul, Wireless backhaul, PTP, PMP, Point to point, Point to multipoint, E-band, sub-6 GHz
monica.paolini posted on October 12, 2011 14:00
New report available at GigaOM Pro
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Posted in: 3G, 4G, LTE, Mobile broadband, Mobile devices, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, Wireless broadband, Wireless data, Heterogeneous networks, Small cells, Core network, RAN, Femto cells, Wi-Fi offload, SON, Data traffic, QoS, QoE
monica.paolini posted on October 11, 2011 18:06
I have argued for a long time that unlimited data plans are unsustainable – or basically that they are marketing fiction, because available wireless capacity is unfailingly limited, and subscribers cannot escape that fact no matter what operators tell them.
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monica.paolini posted on October 06, 2011 01:51
Vertical applications have become one of the hot areas in the wireless industry. With cellular penetration approaching saturation and subscriber ARPU slowly declining or remaining stable despite the strong growth in mobile data adoption, turning to applications where humans are not required or only play an ancillary part is understandably appealing.
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Posted in: 3G, 4G, Mobile broadband, Mobile devices, Public transportation, Rail, Safety, Transportation, Vertical applications, Wireless broadband, Wireless data
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