That fact that the annual LTE World Summit has recently established itself among the top events in the sector has really underlined the importance of LTE in our industry. It’s also a good opportunity to reflect about the LTE market development that we have seen over the recent years.  By April 2012 there were 64 commercially launched LTE networks, 70 per cent more than a year earlier. The last year has also seen the commercial launches of the first TD-LTE networks. The global adoption of both FDD LTE and TD-LTE is not a vision anymore, it’s a fact. Global scale fosters the development of the device ecosystem, which in turn drives subscriber figures. The LTE virtuous circle has accelerated.  The arrival of multiband/multimode USB dongles has enabled operators to migrate their mobile broadband large screen customers..

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TD-LTE cost effectively meets the pent up demand of Mobile Broadband and has global momentum with spectrum available in 110+ countries. China Mobile, Nokia Siemens Networks are partnering to commercialize TD-LTE – Making History with First 4G Network of China. China Mobile is laser focused on introducing 4G that is topping 100Mbps data rate to meet the pent up demand of its subscribers. Nokia Siemens Networks is the trusted partner that is delivering the stringent requirements cost effectively with top network quality and we are conducting large scale field trials of TD-LTE to create a robust 4G network for China and for the world.

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On the lookout for iconic mobile antenna designs, we, together with Aalto University, invited students to come up with ideas on how mobile antennas could look in the future. The winners of the active antenna design competition were announced on Thursday last week and the best design award was shared between teams Owl and Tetrix. The competition was a part of the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 activities and saw 25 students in 5 teams from the Aalto University propose active antenna designs that are not meant to be hidden, but rather stand out as design pieces in their own right. Selecting the winner was tough for the evaluation panel that consisted of both design and technology experts from Aalto University and Nokia Siemens Networks. In the end, the best design award was shared between two teams, Owl..

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In the Current Analysis’ recent “Customer Experience Management survey: Operator strategies and Purchase Horizon” report*), operators ranked Nokia Siemens Networks together with Hewlett Packard in the first place. Here’s an excerpt from the main report: “NSN currently enjoys some perception advantages over its immediate rivals in the burgeoning CEM solution market. NSN´s early championing of CEM, as early as a year ahead of rivals, is likely responsible for the companies positive recognition among operators. This point is reinforced when viewing the substantial difference between Nokia Siemens and Ericsson. As such, Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent and Huawei should view Nokia Siemens Networks’ overt focus on CEM as a substantial threat.” [caption id="attachment_1890" align="aligncenter" width="401" caption="Which vendors do you hold a very positive perspective as CEM solution providers? % of respondent, N=76"][/caption] The analysis shows that CEM is strongly identified with network operations. Furthermore, operators..

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http://youtu.be/1TPEfUHg_Fw TD-LTE (Time Division-LTE) is playing a key role in helping operators to address explosive demand for mobile broadband even when there are limited resources. Operators require a scalable TD-LTE mobile broadband network that can be initiated with the minimum possible total cost of ownership. To address the operator need our engineers have come up with a great  offering – our new TD-LTE 8 pipes radio. It is the only indoor and outdoor RF (radio frequency) module that can deliver 3 or even 4 sectors in a single unit. It is also the only RF module that can deliver 4 sectors in a single remote radio configuration. So operators can use just one TD-LTE 8 pipes radio instead of using 4 remote radio modules for a 4 sector site configuration. Compared to conventional single sector remote radio modules, operators can get the following benefits: Fewer modules for one site, less tower space; lower..

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