News from the industry- Logitech ships Harmony Ultimate Hub in August for $100, remote not required
- LG's Optimus G followup to feature a Snapdragon 800 CPU
- Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 revisits the FCC with AT&T-native LTE
- Nokia RM-875 reaches the FCC, may be an international EOS
- Twitter acquires Spindle, a 'news feed for your neighborhood'
Category Archives: Systems
WiFi vs 4G test – shocking outcome?
The Advanced Wireless Technology Group (AWTG), in early 2013 undertook an indoor and outdoor testing of the quality of experience of the four major UK networks in Central London, including a recently-launched LTE service operating at 1.8 GHz. Telecom TV reports … Continue reading
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Ofcom invites industry to do TV White Space Trials
Ofcom is inviting industry to take part in a pilot test to evaluate the feasibility of using TV White Spaces spectrum utilizing geolocation data base based access. The envisaged commercial applications are broadband access for rural communities, Wi-Fi-like services (primarily … Continue reading
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Riding the Data Tsunami in the Cloud – Myths and Challenges in Future Wireless Access
In this overview article in the March 2013 edition of IEEE Communications Magazine, Jens Zander (Wireless@KTH) and Petri Mähönen (RWTH Aachen University) note that data rates of mobile communications have increased dramatically during the last decade. The industry predicts an … Continue reading
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Mobile pricing stats…
PTS, the Swedish regulator released its report on “Price progression in Mobile Telephony and Broadband Access (Swedish). This is an interesting follow-up on the recent user statistics. Picking a few interesting numbers The average cost for mobile telephony for at … Continue reading
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IEEE Globecom’12- What’s a small cell and what are research problems there?
I attended IEEE Globecom 2012 in Anaheim during the last week. Overall, I found that there are growing interests on M2M and cloud services at least from an industry side. Also, interests on small cells and energy efficiency were relatively … Continue reading
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Out of the cloud into the fog…
Globecom 2012 – day 3 coverage: Attended the Industry forum on IT Industry Transformation – Clouds, Security, Mobility and Computing. The keynote speaker was Flavio Bonomi, Head of Advanced Architecture and Research at Cisco Systems. The talk was very much focussed on … Continue reading
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Floodlights, Lamps and “Herbal Medicine”
Some reflections from today’s Globecom 2012 “Industry forum” on Green Communication and Computing: Today Chih-Lin I, Chief Scientist at China Mobile repeated what I have seen in quite a few presentations: How the worlds (i.e. the wireless operators) problems can … Continue reading
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Were is the Sweetspot in Wireless M2M?
Globecom 2012 – day 1 coverage continued: Happened to stumble into the tutorial session on M2M (M2M for smart grids and smart cities) headed by Mischa Dohler and Jesus Alonso-Zárate from CTTC in Barcelona. Excellent overview of existing technologies and … Continue reading
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How small are “small” cells?
This is a first “live” report from Globecom 2012 in Anaheim, CA. Todays topic at the Broadband Wireless Access Workshop was small cells. Sampath Rangarajan from NEC (USA) gave an interesting presentation regarding the need for “small cells”. Based on (optimistic) … Continue reading
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5G – The future of Wireless
In these short interviews on Deutsche Welle, Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey), Jens Zander (Wireless@KTH) and Ted Rappaport (NYU WIRELESS) comment on challenges in wireless systems beyond 4G.
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