Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “LTE”
Author: Ricardo Tavares
Published: 2017-02-14
I first heard of Mukesh Ambani, the Chairman of Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL), in early 2004–a couple of years after he launched Reliance Communications (RCOM) for his terminally-ill father. Reliance had struggled to enter the mobile telecoms market in India in the mid-1990s, when the government first auctioned spectrum. But in 2002 it obtained, through administrative process, a nationwide 800 …
Author: Ricardo Tavares
Published: 2017-01-11
There are clear signs it is the beginning of the endgame for the GSM standard’s 25 years of mobile market leadership, with mobile operators announcing the planned shutdown of GSM networks on almost a weekly basis. That is a very long life cycle for a technology, reflecting its durability and many accomplishments. Launched commercially in Finland in 1991, GSM fought …
Author: Ricardo Tavares
Published: 2014-12-27
A new business paradigm is being driven by the voracious demand for data in Africa – the data-only LTE operator. The business model as such is not entirely new as data-only early WiMAX deployments were competing with, or being developed due to the lack of, DSL providers. Now that WiMAX is gone, a new batch of data-centric operators with no …
Author: Ricardo Tavares
Published: 2014-03-10
Several years ago, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), a UN body for telecoms policy, released a definition of 4G which its 193 member states should have adhered to (http://www.itu.int). They didn't. As a result, it is now being very careful not to say 5G. A key part of the 4G specification was minimum upload and download speeds and these are …