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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
monica.paolini posted on September 14, 2011 13:59
What are the main drivers that are pushing mobile data traffic indoors, and what does that mean for mobile operators?
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monica.paolini posted on September 08, 2011 15:24
Finally Clearwire has publicly announced its commitment to move to LTE. The decision to adopt LTE was a widely expected, and probably an unavoidable one, but there were (and still are) many open questions on how the transition will take place, in terms of timeline, technology, the relationship with Sprint, and, perhaps more crucially, of funding.
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monica.paolini posted on August 02, 2011 15:57
For mobile operators fighting network congestion, Wi-Fi offloading has been an unqualified success. In some high-traffic locations in Hong Kong, up to 80 percent of the cellular data traffic is offloaded.
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monica.paolini posted on July 08, 2011 04:40
UQ Communications and Samsung have demonstrated in Tokyo that WiMAX2 is ready for prime time, with download speeds of up to 140 mbps in a 20 MHZ channel in a dense and challenging urban environment.
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monica.paolini posted on June 29, 2011 17:38
Data caps have become the first line of defense of mobile operators against network congestion. But it is becoming increasingly obvious that imposing limitations on traffic allowances is not an effective tool to manage traffic, and in fact it may have unintended negative effects on congestion
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monica.paolini posted on June 06, 2011 17:11
Since Yota, the Russian WiMAX operator, announced a year ago its plans to move to FDD LTE to everybody's surprise, there have been many more developments from operators and vendors that cast some light on the timeline and process of the transition to LTE and on the operators committed to it.
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monica.paolini posted on May 11, 2011 22:38
With dual-mode devices, operators can reduce upfront costs and gain flexibility as they migrate to LTE. A white paper compares the financial benefits for operators who move to LTE with and without dual-mode devices
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monica.paolini posted on April 20, 2011 16:08
Cost per bit is a useful metric to capture costs associated with the delivery of data, and make comparison across technologies, operators, or markets. Yet cost per bit estimates cited as absolute values may be misleading or inaccurate.
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