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Kenneth Karlberg, head of mobility services for Swedish firm TeliaSonera. As consumers increasingly use laptops and smartphones to surf the Internet and download applications, operators across the globe are trying to find ways to expand capacity and at the same time keep prices sustainable for users.
Operators want to move away from flat-rate charging in part because they want to be able to fund the $72 billion in investments in broadband technologies forecast for the current year.
Asia Pacific will see the greatest investment in mobile broadband, according to the GSMA, with predicted capital expenditure of up to $34 billion. North America follows with up to $19 billion, with Europe expected to invest up to $14 billion. Mobile broadband is
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Asia Pacific will see the greatest investment in mobile broadband ....up to $34 billion. |
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initiative initially developed the IMS-based approach, will lead the development of specifications that GSMA expects to enable interconnection and international roaming between LTE networks. GSMA expects the project to be complete by the first quarter of 2011.
More than 40 companies are now part of the initiative, including major operators such as 3 Group, AT&T, China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom/T-Mobile, KDDI, NTT Docomo, Orange, SKT, SoftBank, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, Telenor, TeliaSonera, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone.
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expected to account for 52 per cent of all operator investment in mobile infrastructure globally. Of all the regions, North America will spend the greatest percentage – 80 per cent – of its total mobile CAPEX investment on mobile broadband.
"The forecasted investment in Mobile Broadband technologies reflects the importance the mobile industry places on enabling consumers to access any type of content on the move - whatever they want, whenever they want, wherever they want," said Michael O'Hara, GSMA chief marketing officer.
The GSMA unveiled an IMS-based initiative to address how best deliver voice and SMS services over LTE. The GSMA's One Voice
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Agilent Technologies Inc., among others, hopes to capitalize on the growth of LTE. The firm has added capabilities to its Signaling Analyzer Real Time (SART) for LTE. The enhancements are designed to enable wireless carriers and network equipment manufacturers to analyze an LTE-enabled increase in network traffic without sacrificing real-time-to-results. The SART's access to air-interface data sources permits end-to-end call trace across both LTE and non-LTE network components. Agilent also unveiled a phone solution extension for its LTE Drive Test portfolio that is designed to enhance coverage monitoring capability of the company's test drive receiver.
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