Author Archives: Jan Markendahl

The role of ICT and broadband for the development of the Indian society

The Indian mobile market – Travel report part five (of five) Challenges for India  The role of ICT and broadband for development of India was discussed at the ITS India 2012 conference. Many problems like poverty, illiteracy, lack of healthcare, … Continue reading

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India – Spectrum management, networks and technologies

  Travel report part three (of five) The mobile market in India is fragmented with a large number of operators and a multitude of regional licenses. The intense competition and very low prices has forced the operators to takeactions in order … Continue reading

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Indian telecom market is very dynamic and differs a lot from Europe

Travel report part one (of five): Characteristics of the Indian telecom market Bengt G Mölleryd at PTS and Jan Markendahl at Wireless@KTH visited India for almost two weeks during the second half of February 2012. Besides presenting papers on spectrum … Continue reading

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“The gap between technology and users”

  “The gap between technology and users” (Glappet mellan teknik och användare) was the title of a seminar organized by Marketing Technology Center (MarknadsTekniskt Centrum) and The Swedish Retail and Wholesale Development (Handels utvecklingsråd) September 5 2011. Jan Markendahl from wireless@KTH and Per … Continue reading

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Femtocells at PIMRC in Istanbul

Femtocells were discussed in a multitude of ways at the 21th PIMRC conference in Istanbul September 26-29. A full-day workshop (IOFC) was organized before the conference, and there were one specific femtocell paper session and one panel session. In addition, … Continue reading

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Are telecom vendors solving both network operation and head count problems for operators?

In addition to offering network solutions the major telecom vendors also offer managed services including O&M of the operator network. In many of the O&M deals operator staff is moved to the vendor company. Does anyone know about cases where … Continue reading

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Will price erosion on radio equipment close the revenue gap?

Recently a number of deals for “4G” networks  have been announced, e.g. Huawei and Telenor (Norway), Huawai and Tele2 &Telenor (Sweden) and Ericsson&NSN and Telia (Sweden), see e.g.  http://www.telenor.com/en/news-and-media/news/2009/telenor-to-replace-its-infrastructure-for-mobile-services-in-norway Although the network upgrades include multi-base stations for 2G, 3G/UMTS and 4G/LTE with capabilities … Continue reading

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