Category Archives: Business

Virgin Media – Chesham pilots UK’s first Smart WiFi Pavement with Virgin Media

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Jens Zander

It only is this the first time we’ve built metropolitan WiFi directly from our street cabinets, it is also the UK’s first deployment of a WiFi connected pavement. It is literally public WiFi under your feet. We want to build … Continue reading →

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Dynamic Spectrum – a solution for Africas spectrum problems?

Posted on September 21, 2015 by Jens Zander

Last week I was invited speaker at Africon 2015.  My keynote talk was on the role of Dynamic/Flexible Spectrum and “Cognitive Radio” in the deployment of rural internet access using wireless technology.  This sparked some interesting discussions in the panel I … Continue reading →

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ITS Europe: Issues of mobile payment adoption

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Tatjana Apanasevic

On 27-28 of June, I attended the 7th PhD Seminar organized by the International Telecommunications Society (ITS) Europe in San Lorenzo del Escorial, Spain. PhD Seminar’s participants also had the opportunity to attend the 26th European Regional Conference of the ITS. Using … Continue reading →

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A few words on ITS Europe and the MNO vs OTT battle

Posted on August 31, 2015 by Óscar Álvarez

The 26th European Regional Conference of the International Telecommunications Society was held on June 24th in San Lorenzo del Escorial in Spain. I had the opportunity to attend and present our paper titled: Internet of Things: Redefinition of business models … Continue reading →

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Does the Internet-of-Things dwell in Extremistan?

Posted on June 23, 2015 by Jens Zander

Extremistan – is not were IS terrorists rule, it’s the fictitious country introduced in N.N. Taleb’s renowned book “The Black Swan:The Impact of the Highly Improbable“. It is some times contrasted against Taleb’s other imaginary country,  Mediocristan, to describe the impact of … Continue reading →

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Who want’s LTE-U ?

Posted on June 17, 2015 by Jens Zander

Quite some effort is now being put in moving LTE also into unlicensed spectrum. One reason is of course the large chunks of spectrum where the big competitor in short-range indoor and hot-spot market, WiFi,  is now ruling alone.  The other is … Continue reading →

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5G – “Mädchen für Alles?”

Posted on April 29, 2015 by Jens Zander

Listening to Sara Mazur (head of Ericsson Research) at last years Johannesberg Summit really puts the spotligth on the main dilemma in 5G: I should do this, and that, and also this etc, in an almost endless “wishlist”. Other constraints … Continue reading →

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Who should build “my” (Utility) communication network?

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Amirhossein Ghanbari

Gathering more than 10 thousand attendees from all over the world, at its 25th anniversary, DISTRIBUTECH had multiple agendas. The most interesting one for the unwired people then was the question introduced in this post’s title. Utilities mainly question that: … Continue reading →

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Network Sharing; is it a dream?

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Amirhossein Ghanbari

By 2012, the EU commission started promoting Network Sharing as a tool to bring socio-economic benefits to European nations. It took them just one year (in 2013) to advise Telecom National Regulatory Authorities (NRA) to authorise both passive and active … Continue reading →

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The latest CISCO predictions for mobile traffic are here

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Jens Zander

The latest data in the Cisco’s Mobile Visual Networking Index are here. Of course most interesting for us at UWP are the figure for mobile data traffic volume growth for next 5 year period 2014-2019. The estimates are clearly down from the … Continue reading →

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