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.
(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/).
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.
First convergent Orange rate, where it is offered ADSL services and a 2GB data plan with 4G speeds for only 50 euros.
Really interesting evaluation by Gartner about vendors “end to end” LTE deployment using magic quadrant.
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/.
“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.
Some information about LTE world deployment.
Terminals
(Language: Spanish) The new Samsung Galaxy terminal with special camera features lands on Europe including LTE functionality.
Other interesting links
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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