Industrial-News

• EE EYES LTE-ADVANCED

  2013-4-23

  The largest UK cellco says its upgraded LTE network will increase top real world speeds to over 80 Mbps (it can do 130 Mbps in the lab), and double average speeds to more than 20 Mbps. EE will achieve this by doubling the spectrum capacity it is using, from 10 MHz to 20 MHz, as it continues to refar...

• Emerging markets to dominate mobile subs

  2013-3-26

  It's said that emerging markets will account for four out of five of the estimated 8.9 billion mobile subscriptions worldwide by 2017, Strategy Analytics has predicted. The research firm estimates that mobile subscriptions in emerging markets will grow at a CAGR of 7.5% between 2012 and 2017, well...

• Bidding war brewing for Clearwire

  2013-1-21

  In a move that I did not expect, US player DISH has apparently made a competing bid for Clearwire.Yep, Clearwire says it has received and ‘unsolicited, non-binding proposal from DISH’ for $3.30 per share, attempting to take the prize away from Softbank/Sprint, whose bid of $2.97 ...

• LTE subs lag device sales

  2013-1-8

  Mobile operators are struggling to convert growing sales of LTE devices into 4G contracts, with a fewer subscribers choosing to upgrade than the switch from 2G to 3G a decade ago.Research firm ABI Research states total sales of 4G mobile devices hit 103 million in 2012, with smartphones accounting f...

• Telco network spend set to rise

  2013-1-5

  Telecoms operators worldwide will step up their investment in network equipment over next few years, as they upgrade their mobile networks and deploy fiber to handle exploding traffic, Infonetics Research predictsA report by the research firm shows that telecom capex increases in 2012 are being driv...