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Today's Headlines
Oct. 25, 2010
Telefonica O2 Launches Rural LTE Network Pilot in Germany LteWorld Share    
Telefonica O2 Germany is starting the next stage of LTE deployments in rural areas. After urban pilot networks went into operation in Munich in early September, more are now being installed in rural communities. In Teutschenthal near Halle and Ebersberg near Munich, the first LTE pilot networks with frequencies of 800 MHz will be switched on in November. The first O2 customers will be able to try out the new broadband network a month later and in 2011 construction and commercialization of LTE will begin across Germany. More Telecom Italia to Roll Out HSPA+ to Milan and Rome TeleGeography Share
Telecom Italia has announced that it will be the first mobile network operator in Italy to launch an HSPA+ platform, offering speeds of up to 21Mbps, up from the previous theoretical maximum of 14.4Mbps. The upgrade will be launched in the cities of Rome and Milan in December, and will be rolled out nationally next year, with 42Mbps speeds scheduled for roll out by the end of the year. Telecom Italia expects LTE services to follow in 2012, having recently completed 4G trials in Turin which demonstrated download speeds of 100Mbps. More
Tele2 Croatia Upgrading to 21Mbps HSPA+ in December TeleGeography Share
Mobile operator Tele2 Croatia has announced plans to upgrade its 3G network in all major cities to 21Mbps starting this December, news daily Poslovni Dnevnik reports. The company also announced that it has invested more than EUR409 million ($571 million) in its 3G network since launching operations five years ago. More Chunghwa Telecom Testing LTE in Cooperation with Alcatel-Lucent Digitimes Share
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) is undertaking technical trials using LTE to provide mobile multimedia services through technological cooperation with Alcatel-Lucent. The company carried out other LTE testing earlier in 2010 through technological cooperation with Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks. More Yota Selects Bridgewater for Central and South American 4G Expansion PRNewswire Share
Bridgewater Systems, the mobile personalization company, announced that Russian operator Yota has selected the Bridgewater Service Controller (AAA) anchored by Bridgewater's Subscriber Data Broker to support the rollout of its new national WiMAX service in Nicaragua. The network, which launched on July 1, is the first 4G wireless broadband service in the country. More
Sprint Announces Embedded WiMAX Netbook, Notebook FierceBroadbandWireless Share
WCAI member Sprint has introduced what it calls the world's first CDMA/WiMAX embedded netbook. Sprint launched the Dell Inspiron Mini 10, with Windows 7 starter, and a slightly larger notebook, the Dell Inspiron 11z with Windows 7 Premium. Sprint will make the netbook available beginning Oct. 31 through select retail channels in the U.S. The notebook will become available beginning Nov. 14. More Verizon Wireless Readies LTE Gear for Businesses in US Computerworld Share
Verizon Wireless and its partners will release new LTE devices for businesses and consumers in the first quarter of 2011 to take advantage of faster wireless speeds, including portable two-way videoconferencing gear that can be used by repairmen in the field to shorten repair times, according to Mike Lanman, Verizon Wireless president of government and enterprise markets. Verizon is also working on in-car information and entertainment applications that work over LTE, as well as chip modules that can be used for wirelessly monitoring performance of washing machines and refrigerators. Many of the products will be ready early in 2011, after Verizon launches LTE in 38 cities before the end of the year. More
4G Defined: WiMAX and LTE Don't Qualify InfoWorld Share
Neither WiMAX nor LTE qualify as 4G technologies, according to the International Telecommunication Union Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R). The group announced it had finished its assessment of submissions for the 4G standard, also called IMT-Advanced. Based on that group's decision, to really be selling 4G, carriers will have to get going with one of two future technologies, called LTE-Advanced and WirelessMAN-Advanced. The latter, also known as IEEE 802.16m, will form the basis of WiMAX Release 2. More Report: Regulators Failing to Allocate Harmonized 4G Spectrum TR Daily Share
Regulators around the world are failing to allocate harmonized spectrum for 4G services, Yankee Group said in a report. It said that the lack of harmonization is hurting prospects for device economies of scale, carrier competitiveness, and global data roaming. "If these trends continue, vendors will not be able to make devices that work everywhere and consumers will not easily roam across networks when traveling to different countries," said Ken Rehbehn, principal analyst at Yankee Group and author of the report. "This greatly threatens 4G's success, since roaming revenue will fall and consumers will seek alternatives, like Wi-Fi." More Previous editions of WCAI's 4G Global Update are
available on the Global Development Committee website: www.wcai.com/blog_wp/.
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