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In last week’s blog, I introduced this graph showing the history and expected trends for network border elements - the Media Gateway and the SBC. Graph derived from Infonetics data, November 2011 There are two interesting things going on in this graph. First of all, you see the gateways declining...
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Yesterday, I experienced my first LTE interaction by using an LTE phone that belonged to a colleague. I am not usually easily wowed, but Wow, that was an unexpected experience. I knew it would be fast but I was floored by just how fast it was! I mean like it says on the commercials, going out to websites...
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Last week I visited Japan and China. Japan truly is the land of the mobile internet, as pretty much all 120M mobile subscribers are on 3G now, with something like 25% of mobile subscribers expected to be on LTE by 2015. It’s interesting having great mobile internet connections. One of my colleagues...
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Back in 2002, before blogs, Twitter and Facebook, a key way to get your message across was to write articles. I wrote a monthly article for many years for the famously yellow-colored Internet Telephony Magazine. Things are a little different now – while there is still a yellow-colored Internet...
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I spent the summer engorged in analyst research. It was all over my office. It was in my briefcase. It was on my computer and iPad. It was in my head. It was on the plane with me. It was home with me. It was even on my deck with me. All in the name of business planning. As its part of my job, it's...
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The amount of money spent on mobile spectrum by mobile service providers is enormous. In 2000, European mobile service providers spent $129 billion on 3G licenses , and in 2010 mobile service providers in India alone spent a staggering $14.5 billion on these licenses. Now, LTE/4G licenses are starting...
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Last week, I was in Johannesburg for the Mobile Network Optimization Africa conference, where I spoke on techniques for removing bottlenecks from wireless networks, specifically in the backhaul part of the network. South Africa is interesting in this regard since if you look at the latest Cisco Visual...
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On February, 1 st , I wrote a Mobile World Congress preview blog and said I expected to see Mobile Backhaul at the show. Here I am at the last day of the show, and I want to tell you about the major themes I'm seeing. First and foremost, the major theme is mobile broadband optimization , which includes...
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In just two weeks, the key global wireless show will be upon us. Let’s hope the weather holds out and it looks like the picture below, as opposed to last year when it actually snowed for a bit. Every year, I have an expectation of what I might see at the show. Even with that though, there are usually...
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Over the next few years we’ll start to see LTE move into the mainstream. It will not, however, be the immediate panacea for all of the bandwidth and spectrum issues as it will take some time to roll out. It will however start to get us moving in the right direction and combining with HSPA (High...
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Try saying that 5 times fast. But with Intel announcing it is purchasing Infineon's Wireless Solutions Busines s for $1.4B, Intel is getting into LTE in a much bigger way. Or did they do it since the Intel logo and the Infineon logo look quite similar? Assuming they did it to drive LTE, though, I'm...
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Back on April 15 th , I wrote about Germany's spectrum auction for the spectrum beyond 3G, likely to be used for LTE. The auction ended a couple of weeks ago netting a price tag of 4.38B Euros, much less than the recent $14.5B auction of 3G spectrum in India and much less than the 50B Euro 3G auction...
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The other day, I wrote about India's 3G wireless auction. Turns out Germany has started auctioning off spectrum that will likely be used for LTE-based networks. The bidders include E-Plus, Telefonica O2, T-Mobile and Vodafone. It will be interesting to see how much the government makes from licensing...
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I find myself in the middle of NCAA Basketball March Madness in, of all places, Las Vegas. It turns out I'm leaving before the Sweet Sixteen starts and that's good. If not, I'm sure I'd find myself sitting in one of the betting rooms here, watching the games on TV. I hear people talk...
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All of these network and network infrastructure improvements, as well as likely tiered pricing options in the future, will help get us to improved mobile network service. The mobile internet marches on, and there will be increasingly more and more usage of it, and technology will solve the problem ultimately...
