The best of the week

Let’s go with some LTE news!

Reflection about the possibility of using the 60Ghz band as a backhaul solution for small cells.

Interesting NSN results, where they prove the performance of calls that begin in LTE coverage (with VoLTE) and finish in 3G (what is known as SRVCC).

Article about 4G conectivity rising in cars, with some real examples and some reflections about the possible selling model.

(Language: Spanish) Deep comparative analysis about the different 4G rates of Spanish Operators.

(Language: Spanish) Amena (with Orange network), is the first Spanish virtual Operator with 4G services

Another interesting NSN trial, in this case with China Mobile, where they analyze the performance of a high quality video call between some Chinese cities using TD-LTE China Mobile network.

Terminals

(Language: Spanish): When Movistar started offering 4G services, it had big issues with the iPhone 5 handset, since it couldn’t use its services. Some days later, Movistar broughth a solution.

Other interesting links

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

ASCOM blog, where you can find some interesting studies.

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

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The best of the week

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

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

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

British Operator EE has reached one million 4G users.

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/

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

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

(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.

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

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

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

Other interesting links

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

ASCOM blog, where you can find some interesting studies.

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

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The best of the 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.

(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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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!

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Here we have some information about this week LTE news:

http://mobilesociety.typepad.com/mobile_life/2013/07/massive-csfb-speed-improvement-in-lte-live-networks.html

Massive CSFB Speed Improvement in German LTE Networks.

http://www.adslzone.net/article12137-son-insuficientes-los-limites-de-trafico-en-las-nuevas-tarifas-4g.html

(Language: Spanish). A brief analysis about the possibility that our current data plans may result insufficient for the 4G services.

http://lteworld.org/news/sprint-opens-lte-network-bronx-and-brooklyn

U.S. carrier Sprint has announced that its new 4G LTE network will be available in two New York boroughs Bronx and Brooklyn beginning on July 30. Transit Wireless and Sprint recently announced that the companies have finalized their contract to bring Sprint’s wireless voice and data service in the New York subway system.

http://lteworld.org/news/gsa-194-commercial-networks-worldwide-75-countries

A recent GSA LTE report confirms that 194 LTE networks are commercially launched in 75 countries, symptoms planned or in progress in 120 countries including existing commercial launches and forecast that there will be 260 commercial LTE networks in 93 countries by end 2013.

http://blogs.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/mobile-networks/2013/07/17/4345/

Nokia Siemes article where it is explained what is TD-LTE about.

http://4g-portal.com/monetizing-lte-how-lte-can-help-operators-become-more-profitable

Interesting seminar about how LTE can help operators become more profitable

http://lteconference.wordpress.com/2013/07/24/preparing-for-volte/

Analysis of the situation of VoLTE. LTE Voice Summit is taking place on the 1st-2nd October 2013 in London

http://lteconference.wordpress.com/2013/07/23/roaming-with-voice-in-lte-networks/

Article about how does roaming work in LTE networks

Handsets

http://www.movilzona.es/2013/07/22/los-mejores-smartphones-de-vodafone-4g/

(Language: Spanish). Comparison of the best 4 handsets to enjoy connection speeds with Vodafone 4G

http://www.movilzona.es/2013/07/19/actualizacion-del-samsung-galaxy-s4-para-soportar-las-redes-4g-de-yoigo-y-orange/

(Language: Spanish). Information about Samsung Galaxy S4 update to Yoigo and Orange 4G networks

See you next week!

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and by Helena Muñoz Ayuso (contact) or follow me on Linkedin

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Let´s see this week summary of news about LTE:

http://www.rcrwireless.com/americas/20130708/carriers/latam-video-interview-brazils-mobile-needs-world-cup/

Interview with Jeff Glueck, cialis CEO de Skyfire, about mobile telecom needs to cover during FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil.

http://lteworld.org/blog/lte-deployments-cover-57-population-2018

Information about LTE the deployment in 2018.

http://www.movilzona.es/2013/07/16/analisis-de-la-conexion-4g-de-vodafone-con-un-modem-lte/

(Language: Spanish) 4G Vodafone connection analysis made in several areas of Madrid.

http://www.movilzona.es/2013/07/15/vodafone-aumentara-el-limite-de-descarga-de-sus-tarifas-de-datos-4g/

(Language: Spanish) Information about the increase of the download limit in Vodafone 4G data fees.

http://blogs.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/mobile-networks/2013/07/15/volte-ing-over-ott-voice-by-leaps-and-bounds/

NSN comparison between VoLTE and others VoIP alternatives.

http://www.xatakamovil.com/yoigo/yoigo-anuncia-la-ampliacion-de-su-4g-mas-de-100-ciudades-para-finales-de-ano

Information about the intention of Yoigo to deploy its 4G network in every city over 70.000 inhabitants before the end of the year.

Other interesting links

http://4g.orange.es/cobertura.html

On the website of Orange it´s already possible to check its 4G network coverage.

¡See you next week!

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The best of the week

What’s new with LTE? Let us give you some pieces of information!

Huawei has recently made LTE available on Mount Everest, 5200 meters above sea level.

(Language: Spanish) Interesting news about the inminent agreement between Yoigo and Movistar. Yoigo will be able to offer ADSL services and Movistar could provide LTE to its users.

Current situation of the LTE deployment in Africa.

LTE handset evolution. Since February 2011, the number of LTE phones has increased from 63 to 948.

(Language: Spanish) Compilation about the most important information related to the LTE deployment of Vodafone Spain.

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

 

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Let’s begin the LTE newsletter of this week!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Other interesting links

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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The best of the week

We start today a new section where we show the most important news of the week, focusing in LTE, at least at the beginning…

Let’s go!

(Language: Spanish) Xataka has made an interview with somo experts where it was made an interesting debate about the deployment of LTE in Spain. Don’t miss their reflections.

(Language: Spanish) Huge analysis about the agreements that will probably reach Telefonica and Yoigo in Spain in order to share sites and allow Telefonica to offer LTE services. This policy was also followed in United Kingdom between Vodafone and O2 (for more information, press here).

(Language: Spanish) Some information about the LTE deployment and market in America.

“ABIResearch” prediction, where is foreseen, among other information, that LTE-Advanced will have in 2018 500 millions of users.

(Language: Spanish) Comparative between the LTE mobile rates of the different European operators.

Other interesting links

If you want more information about the LTE World Summit that has been taken during this week in Amsterdam, follow these links.

Website with free academic training about Telecommunications, including LTE.

We hope you’ll find useful this “newsletter”. See you next week!