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Vodafone Access Gateway (femtocell) launched in UK
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 09:01:22 EDT
Aditya Kaul | Senior Analyst, Mobile NetworksIts July 1st and Vodafone have officially launched their access gateway product in the UK. For those who are wondering what this is - its a femtocell with a curious title. Although Vodafone had made a press announcement at the Femto World Summit last week, its nice to see how they are packaging and ...
Nortel 4G IPR no where near $2.9 billion
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 04:01:03 EDT
Stuart Carlaw | Vice President and Chief Research OfficerJP Morgan were cited in Lightreading http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=178671 regarding Nortel's IPR and stated that the Nortel 4G IPR holding could be worth up to $2.9 billion. This is definitely a good story and might be good to attract more potential bidders for Nortel's wirel...
Nifty Mobile Cloud Computing App: Schlage's LiNK
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:06:06 EDT
Mark Beccue | Senior Analyst, Consumer MobilityIn March, legendary door lock manufacturer Schlage launched LiNK – a keyless lock system for the home. Keyless lock systems are not new – what’s intriguing about LiNK is its remote capabilities. LiNK enables users to control remotely by PC or mobile not only ...
Femtocell Value Proposition - Fridge Notes or Signal Boosters?
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:42:42 EDT
Aditya Kaul | Senior Analyst, Mobile NetworksLast weeks Femtocell World Summit in London was a unique blend of optimism and cautious skepticism. On the one hand, you had the femtocell vendors enthusiastically showcase their fancy femtozone applications, proving that femtos could be fun devices to have within your home. The award winning ap...
Are Nortel's 4G IPR Assets Really That Critical?
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:08:53 EDT
Stuart Carlaw | Vice President and Chief Research OfficerMuch noise has been made recently about the rumor that Nortel’s 4G IPR assets will not be transferred to NSN as part of the current transaction. Light Reading, and its sister company Heavy Reading http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=178537 made a lot of this story on last Friday. ...
Western Union's Latest Move Jolts Growth for Mobile International Remittance
Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:07:15 EDT
Mark Beccue | Senior Analyst, Consumer MobilityYesterday, Western Union made a move which will accelerate mobile enabled international remittance when they opened their money transfer services to mobile money platform vendors. International remittance is a huge business. According to the World Bank, 200 million migrant ...
Nokia Siemens Network Purchase of Nortel's LTE and CDMA Assets
Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:55:32 EDT
Nadine Manjaro | Senior Analyst, Mobile NetworksNokia Siemens Network’s purchase of Nortel’s CDMA and LTE assets is a great move for NSN. Prior to this acquisition, NSN was one of few radio access network (RAN) vendors with no CDMA equipment and small presence in North America. North America accounted for less than 6% of the company&r...
Sprint Expands its Femto Footprint
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:37:06 EDT
Aditya Kaul | Senior Analyst, Mobile NetworksThe announcement of Sprint to offer femtocells to its wholesale partners strengthens its position as a leading femtocell operator. Sprint is using its wholesale supplier strength to allow its partners to take advantage of femtocells. Although Sprint has used the femtocell largely as a churn reductio...
“20% of the Non-Chinese 3G Market to be Based on TD-SCDMA in 2020…”
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:43:24 EDT
Jake Saunders | Vice President of ForecastingThat is not a forecast made by ABI Research. Our forecasts only go out to 2014. That assessment is a market expectation expressed by the Chinese Ministry of Industry & Information Technology. Oh, and in addition, MIIT expect TD-SCDMA to capture 50% of the domestic Chinese 3G market. The Chinese...
Why Push Smartphones - Because We're in a Recession?
Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:09:42 EDT
Dan Shey | Practice Director, Mobile ServicesSmartphone growth has slowed in 2009 from 2008 shipment levels. However based on recent mobile operator smartphone advertisements of buy-one-get-one free and sub $50 pricing you would think that nothing has changed over the last year. The common wisdom for driving a higher penetration of...