Summer is ending… But LTE news are really fresh! Let’s go with them:

• http://blogs.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/mobile-networks/2013/09/06/volte-live-demo-wows-middle-east-mobile-operators

First NSN trials of VoLTE in Medium East, with very interesting results.

• http://lteworld.org/blog/etelm-e-tbs-mission-critical-communications-over-lte

Interesting analysis about how important will be LTE in critical communication services, which until now had been supported by TETRA.

• http://www.gsmarena.com/ees_4g_network_dominates_in_the_uk_hits_one_million_customers-news-6750.php

British Operator EE has reached one million 4G users.

• http://pscomms.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/the-case-for-volte/

Complete summary about VoLTE state of art. For more information, take a look to this link: http://lteconference.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/are-you-ready-to-move-to-voice-over-lte/

• http://lteconference.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/sizing-up-son-self-organising-networks-revealed/

General description of Self-organising Networks (SON), and its importance in heterogeneous networks (HetNets).

• http://lteconference.wordpress.com/2013/09/04/interview-senior-researcher-for-telkom-indonesia-we-believe-mobile-cloud-computing-will-be-a-great-source-of-new-revenues-on-top-of-the-lte-network/

Interview with Hari Hariyanto, senior researcher for Telkom Indonesia, who describes the present LTE situation and deployment in his country.

• http://www.xatakamovil.com/mercado/la-ue-aprueba-sus-planes-para-el-sector-teleco-con-el-fin-del-roaming-para-2016

(Language: Spanish) The European Union (EU) has approved its telco plans in order to eliminate roaming in Europe in 2016. As a first step, EU expects that before July 2014, Operators won’t charge to their users when they receive calls abroad.

• http://www.xatakamovil.com/movistar/cambios-importantes-en-movistar-fin-de-permanencias-fusion-con-4g-y-mas

(Language: Spanish) Some important news about Movistar (Telefonica) and 4G. The operator, since September 13^tH .

• http://blogs.nsn.com/mobile-networks/2013/09/12/take-advantage-of-the-great-outdoors-in-a-small-cell-way/

NSN White paper about small cells deployment, in both outdoor and indoor scenarios, in order to offer high speed services to users.

• http://www.expansion.com/2013/09/12/empresas/tmt/1378992820.html?cid=SIN8901

(Language: Spanish) Complete summary about LTE current deployment in Spain, and the handsets which users could use to enjoy 4G services.

Other interesting links

• http://lteuniversity.com/

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

• http://www.ascom.com/nt/en/index-nt/about-us-network-testing/nt-about-us-resources/nt-blog-2.htm

ASCOM blog, where you can find some interesting studies.

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

I know that is summer, but after 4 weeks without any post, I think it’s time to give you some news about LTE. Don’t you think so? Let’s go with them!

http://www.movilzona.es/2013/09/03/vodafone-anuncia-la-expansion-de-su-red-4g-otras-ocho-ciudades/

(Language: Spanish) Vodafone will deploy 4G in other 8 Spanish cities during September and October.

• http://www.xatakamovil.com/mercado/vodafone-y-o2-entran-en-la-guerra-del-4g-en-reino-unido-con-planes-desde-30-euros

(Language: Spanish)Vodafone and O2 plans in UK after theirs LTE networks have been activated. O2 case could give indications about what will do Movistar in the near future (for more information, http://www.gsmarena.com/o2_and_vodafone_launch_4g_lte_networks_in_uk-news-6676.php, http://lteconference.wordpress.com/2013/08/29/uk-finally-gets-some-4g-competition/).

• http://blogs.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/mobile-networks/2013/08/08/when-everyone-has-lte-how-can-you-compete

Interesting reflection about how an operator has to act in order to compete with the rest of operators in the 4G market, offering some examples.

• http://www.xatakamovil.com/orange/canguro-50-el-4g-llega-a-la-oferta-convergente-de-orange-con-mas-gigas-incluidos

First convergent Orange rate, where it is offered ADSL services and a 2GB data plan with 4G speeds for only 50 euros.

• http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-1IG35N2&ct=130813&st=sg

Really interesting evaluation by Gartner about vendors “end to end” LTE deployment using magic quadrant.

• http://lteconference.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/interview-head-of-ip-management-deutsche-telekom-i-hope-the-conference-will-reinforce-my-belief-that-volte-is-happening/

Interview to Michele Zarri, who analyzes the VoLTE challenges that operators will have to handle, and details some of the advantages of this voice service. For more information, take a look to these interviews: http://lteconference.wordpress.com/2013/08/28/interview-vp-core-network-and-services-deutsche-telekom-ims-based-services-like-rcsejoyn-and-volte-are-key-building-blocks-of-our-all-ip-strategy/ and http://lteconference.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/interview-ceo-fring-one-of-the-remaining-challenges-of-ip-telephony-is-the-quality-of-the-last-mile-connection/.

• http://lteconference.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/carrier-aggregation-for-lte-advanced-revealed/

“Carrier Aggregation” description, one of the most important “LTE Advanced” features, which allows higher speeds (than the LTE that is being deployed now) since supports bandwidth channels until 100MHz.

• http://lteworld.org/blog/200-commercial-lte-networks-76-countries

Some information about LTE world deployment.

Terminals

• http://www.movilzona.es/2013/08/30/el-samsung-galaxy-s4-zoom-con-lte-llega-europa/

(Language: Spanish) The new Samsung Galaxy terminal with special camera features lands on Europe including LTE functionality.

Other interesting links

•  http://lteuniversity.com/

Interesting web where you’ll see 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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