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From the 4G Americas white paper .

Some forecasts put HSPA at over 3.5 billion subscribers by the end of 2016. Operators with HSPA and LTE infrastructure and users with HSPA a...

Came across MMTel multiple times in the last few months so decided to dig a bit more in detail. The following from wikipedia : The 3GPP/NGN ...

Its long time since I blogged about TDtv . Its been quite a while since I heard about TDtv. Apparently its been superseded by IMB , aka. Int...

It has been predicted that the growth of HSPA+ broadband across Europe is set to soar with the total number of subscribers set to nearly dou...

Picture Source: http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-t/oth/21/05/T21050000010003PDFE.pdf This is a summary of a paper from IEEE Communication...

In R99, RLC packets had to be relatively small to avoid the retransmission of very large packets in case of transmission errors. Another rea...

After my posting on TD-SCDMA so many people asked me about what TD-SCDMA is. I am surprised that so many people are not aware of TD-SCDMA. ...

EMobile Ltd. , Japan's smallest mobile operator, has deployed HSPA+, also known as HSPA Evolved, in the country's major cities, incl...

According to 3G Americas press release, 100 million new connections were added last year. On a worldwide basis, GSM totals 3.5 billion of th...

Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM) says it will be offering mobile data packages with peak download speeds of 21Mbps by mid-2009, rising to 28Mbps ...

3G Americas , a wireless industry group supporting the GSM family of technologies in the Americas, has provided updates to its popular white...

From Unstrung : In its bid to overtake Ericsson AB and become the world’s top radio access infrastructure supplier in terms of revenue, Noki...

Fractional DPCH was added in Rel-6 to optimise the consumption of downlink channelization codes. When using HS-DSCH (High Speed Downlink Sha...

Thought of adding this while I am in mode of making lists. So whats in HSPA evolution in Rel-7 and Rel-8. Lot of people are unaware that HSP...

For those familiar with the 3G Security (Ciphering + Integrity) architecture will know this well that there is only one Integrity algorithm ...

MBMS in Release 6, can combine signals from different cells and this can be used to boost the reliability of the received signal. Though thi...