The best of the week

Is there any news about LTE this week? Of course! Let’s go with our newsletter:

(Language: Spanish) Yoigo and Telefonica have announced officially their agreement to share their networks. In this way, Yoigo will be able to offer ADSL and FTTH to their users, and Telefonica will offer LTE services using Yoigo infrastructure, waiting until the 800MHz Spanish band is liberalized.

(Language: Spanish) Telefonica rivals don’t agree with the alliance between Yoigo and Movistar, and here they explain their reasons.

Interview with Neelie Kross, EU Commissioner, who provides some information about the LTE status in Europe, and the problems that the technology will have to face in our continent.

Review about the latest topics related to the LTE roaming and the importance about its operating, especially for voice.

Description of the advantages of the “local-breakout” feature to the operators, since it would allow that the roaming traffic wouldn’t have to come back to the home network, but it could be managed directly by the local operator.

(Language: Spanish) Telefonica (O2) has announced LTE deployment in the UK since 29th of August, in three cities, using 800MHz band. O2 users from London, Leeds and Bradford will be able to enjoy 4G services since the end of this month.

Interesting Nokia white paper where are proposed some smart scheduling optimized algorithms.

Terminals

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(Language: Spanish) Pantech has launched onto the market a smartphone with LTE-Advanced connectivity, among other interesting features.

Other interesting links

Interesting web where are a lot of videotutorials about different LTE aspects, explaining them in a simple and a brief way.

See you next week!

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The best of the week

Let’s go with some news about LTE. Don’t miss them!

(Language: Spanish) Vodafone Spain will remove the extra fare of 9 euros that 4G users had to pay in order to use this technology. There is also an interesting comparative table between the different 4G Spanish Operators plan fares.

The next VoLTE Congress will take place in London on 1st-2nd October. In addition, they mention some information about the situation of this technology.

Citrix has won recently the prize ‘Best LTE Traffic Management Product’ at the LTE awards, due to the introduction of its new system call T3100, which allows operators to offer to the users a quality of experience (QoE), according to the expectations.

Many TETRA manufactures are planning to introduce in their portfolios LTE in addition to TETRA.

Huawei is already working in 5G (in fact there are right now 200 people working in this field), and they expect that in 2020 it will be available.

Summary about the recent LTE African congress that took place in Cape Down

Interesting interview to the SK Telecom CTO, reviewing the actual situation of the Operator with respect to LTE.

Interview with a Mastercard representative, who explains why LTE will have a key role in the future of the mobile payments.

Interview with the System Development responsable of Telia Sonera, who says how Europa will reach Asia in LTE, and the Operator plans abot LTE roaming and VoLTE.

In the last LTE awards, Samsung won the “Best LTE ran product” Price, due to its solution about smart LTE networks.

Other interesting links

A brief in general terms about what was decided in the LTE World Summit, which we attended in Amsterdam last June.

And that’s all for now. See you next week!

Published originally in http://intotally.com/tot4blog/ by David Rueda Gómez (contact) or follow me on Linkedin