Category Archives: Mobile broadband

The borderless business: enterprises await LTE

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Posted on March 26, 2012 by admin

Creating the borderless business is set to become a priority for the enterprise market in the coming years. In February, a report by Informa Telecoms & Media predicted that small cell deployments are set to be dominated by femtocells with the installed base growing from 2.5 million in 2012 to 59 million in 2016 – a 2400% increase. More interesting is the …

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Small cells could solve the mobile broadband capacity crunch

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Posted on October 10, 2011 by admin

By Paul Golden. A combination of more data-hungry devices and higher service expectations on the part of users has created a ‘perfect storm’ for mobile broadband providers, who are likely to look to small cells to address some of their network coverage and congestion issues. According to the International Telecommunication Union, there were 872 million active mobile broadband subscriptions last …

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A mixed up future for LTE

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Posted on April 20, 2011 by admin

The author of a research report on projected LTE infrastructure spending has stated that operators will need to evolve their networking architecture into a heterogeneous architecture involving a combination of macro cells, micro cells and small cells, co-existing with femtos and WLAN mesh networks. Jagdish Rebello, senior director and principal analyst for communications and consumer electronics at IHS describes these …

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The evidence mounts: femtocells vital in network offloading

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Posted on April 19, 2011 by admin

Opinion might be divided on the likely scale of growth in mobile network traffic over the next few years, but there is no disputing the need for operators to find ways of handling these increased volumes more efficiently – or the role femtocells will play in this process. According to Cisco’s latest forecast, global mobile data traffic grew by 159% …

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Easing inner city congestion with public service femtocells

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Posted on March 16, 2011 by admin

By Julia Mason With the residential femtocell business model now proven, operators are turning their attention to how femtocells could be used in public indoor and outdoor locations. In the past year, at least three operators have started metro femtocell services (two urban, one rural). They’ve been able to do this because of an increase in both the capacity and …

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100 million small cells: most of them won’t be staying at home

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Posted on February 14, 2011 by admin

By Joe Madden The days of “tower and power” are ending. Around the world, many mobile operators have shifted their focus from coverage to capacity. From voice to data. From dropped calls to throughput. Along the way, carriers are finding that supporting high-speed data requires far higher network quality, especially at the radio layer. Users have moved indoors, and the …

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