This blog post is by Paul Pan from the Nokia Siemens Networks team in China. On September 19, 2012, Nokia Siemens Networks successfully completed the 19th site upgrade from TD-SCDMA (3G) to TD-LTE (4G) and conducted the first TD-LTE call in the dual mode field trial network of China Mobile’s Beijing branch (Beijing Mobile). This …
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This post is by Carlijn Adema from the Nokia Siemens Networks services team. Recently, I spoke to an operator who was trying to solve urban congestion issues. Although they’d rolled out several macro layers, their subscribers still suffered from low Quality of Service due to congestion in some areas of the city. Overall there was …
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This blog post is by Gerald Reddig from the Nokia Siemens Networks Mobile Broadband team. Nokia Siemens Networks‘ Smart Lab in Seoul, South Korea, recently demonstrated a high flying proof of concept of LTE latency and performance. The team integrated an LTE USB dongle and modified firmware into an augmented reality quadricopter. Remote control of …
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This post is by Leslie Shannon from the Nokia Siemens Networks Solutions & Regions Marketing team. When 3G was first launched nearly ten years ago, the image that many inside and outside the telecommunications industry held of the typical 3G user was of an enterprise user in a mature market with a 3G dongle on …
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This post is by Ashish Dayama from the Nokia Siemens Networks Mobile Broadband team. When operators introduce a new technology into their networks, flexibility is the key to a smooth deployment and seamless scalability. In many cases, they would like to take a phased approach, starting small with network infrastructure that is easy to upgrade …
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This post is by Ashish Dayama from the Nokia Siemens Networks Mobile Broadband team. There has been huge growth in subscriber demand for high-speed 4G mobile broadband and internet services in India. Bharti Airtel, a leading Indian operator, is banking heavily on this growth. “I see the future of telecommunications as very bright – all …
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With the implementation of Voice over LTE (VoLTE), voice will become data. In South Korea the first commercial VoLTE networks have been launched, and the evolution to VoLTE has already started. In another major milestone, Renesas Mobile Corporation, a premier supplier of advanced cellular platforms with its headquarters in Japan, has announced that it has …
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Interest in carrier Wi-Fi is growing in parallel with the number of Wi-Fi-enabled devices, which is estimated to hit 2 billion by 2015[1]. Wi-Fi is also a topic that raises many questions. Where does it fit in the ecosystem, and what’s the best strategy to exploit its strengths and weaknesses? Wi-Fi has had an interesting …
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