Let’s begin the LTE newsletter of this week!

• http://lteconference.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/lte-and-beyond-ctos-expect-5g-launch-and-content-partnerships-in-near-future/

Interesting analysis about the opinions of some Operators experts about their expectactions about 5G, the need to switch off the 2G network, and how to face the collaboration with OTT services and contents provider.

• http://blogs.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/mobile-networks/2013/07/01/steering-traffic-along-the-right-hetnet-lanes/

Attractive NSN article (with the consequent white paper) about the recommendations and steps that should take the Operators in order to use efficiently HetNets, focusing in Traffic Steering, that allows to manage rightly the huge data rise due to LTE, in order to make optimized load balancing between eNodeBs and deal with the users depending on the service, the app o the QoS that is needed.

• http://lteconference.wordpress.com/2013/06/28/planning-ahead-for-lte-from-a-spectrum-perspective/

Some reflections and recommendations about the way that should take he Operators in order to make more competitive its networks and offert high quality services to their users.

• http://lteconference.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/the-race-to-be-the-fastest/

Interesting questionnarie that was made to the LTE World Summit attendees. The majority considered that the key is to reach high speeds in order to offer a competitive service, but on the other hand, when you have to invest in your network, you must save all you can and try to monetize the mobile Internet experience.

• http://lteconference.wordpress.com/2013/07/03/managing-the-interaction-between-2g-3g-and-lte-within-heterogeneous-networks/

Some recommendations about the way that the Operators should take to manage efficiently Heterogeneous Networks.

• http://lteconference.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/volte-why-its-imperative-for-lte/

Analysis about why VoLTE has to be so important to the Operators, since (among other things) they could offer real and complete IP services.

• http://www.gsmarena.com/at_ts_lte_expansion_continues_with_20_new_markets-news-6304.php

AT&T has deployed LTE to another 20 states in USA. They expect to finish the deployment before 2014.

• http://lteconference.wordpress.com/2013/07/03/ee-looks-to-streak-ahead-as-uk-lte-rivals-wait-in-the-wings/

Some news about the progresses of the English Operator “EE”. They have doubled the LTE bandwidth from two 10MHz carriers to two of 20MHz. The key is that EE won’t charge anything additional to the users due to this quality improvement.

Handsets

• http://www.gsmarena.com/apple_and_skt_in_talks_for_a_lteadvanced_version_of_iphone_5s-news-6302.php

SK Telecom is negociating with Apple to include LTE-Advanced connectivity in the new iPhone 5S.

Other interesting links

• http://www.sktelecom.com/

SK Telecom has a very interesting section with press releases. This Operator is probably the most advanced one in the LTE field.

They have announced last week the first deployment of a LTE-Advanced network. They also said that there will be a new Galaxy S4 handset with LTE-Advanced connectivity.

They also informed about a paclet of new or improved services, such as: IPTV Full HD, HD Multiconference until 4 users, multimedia packet of contents, HD videos shop and a improvement in their music portal service (MeIOn) that allows CD original quality.

See you next week!

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