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HD Voice in 2013 - Finally, finally, finally?
Next year is shaping up to be "the year" for mobile HD voice service in the United States. As I look over the industry event schedule over the next 12 months, it is helping to shape what I think we'll...
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Are the Networks Ready for an Influx of iPhone 5?
Carriers say 4G LTE infrastructure will cope with the flood of new demand. Others aren't so sure. The iPhone 5, though only an incremental advance as a device, portends sea changes in cellular network...
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Paolini: Small Cells or Wi-Fi Offload?
The answer to this question is easy: We need both small cells and Wi-Fi to fit all the traffic generated by smartphone, tablets and laptops...
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WebRTC: A New Game-Changer, Disrupting Telcos and OTTs
Championed by Google, WebRTC allows browsers to make calls from your PC or phone - and it's disupting both telcos and incumbent VoIP players, from Skype to Viber. Guest author Tsahi Levent-Levi...
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LTE Asia 2012 Summary
LTE Asia proved to be a refreshingly frank, open, and interesting event. With 800 attendees over the 2 days, some of the sessions I attended were packed with standing room only...
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VoLTE vs. VoIP: How Operators can Exploit the Potential Difference
Service platform provider OpenCloud is writing two articles for Mobile Europe on the opportunities and challenges of voice in LTE networks. This first one outlines the basic issue - that OTT players...
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4G LTE a Boon for Machine-to-Machine Communications
Some consumers wonder if 4G LTE really is all that necessary (it is-just remember when 500 MB hard drives seemed like an infinite amount of space). The question of usefulness is obvious when it comes...
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Ericsson and Qualcomm Make TD-LTE Voice Advance
Circuit-Switch Fallback (CSFB) is a mechanism currently used to provide voice services to LTE devices, by signalling an LTE device to "fall back" to the 2/3G network to make or receive a voice call. It...
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UK to be 5G 'Playground' as Huawei, Samsung and Telefonica Set Up...
4G isn't the future anymore. A consortium of companies is to set up a '5G Innovation Centre' at the University of Surrey, with the aim of making mobile broadband communications faster and more...
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Video and Unified Communications Growing in India
In India, unified communications has been seeing more and more adoption, regardless of the size and sector of the companies using it. Surprisingly, the economic slowdown that has caused many businesses...
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The Short, Fast & Crazy Life of 4G (So Far)
People sometimes ask me at these trade shows what I think will help 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) really take off as a network technology... you know, really go mainstream...
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Verizon to launch 400th LTE market on October 18th, two months early
Nicola Palmer, Verizon’s CTO, spoke today at MobileCon about Verizon’s upcoming LTE roadmap. Today the company announces that it will launch service in its 400th market, Marquette Michigan, on October...
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Verizon to Shut Down 2G and 3G Networks by 2021
Verizon is moving insanely quickly with the growth of their 4G LTE network, so it may make you wonder when the carrier will flip the switch to shut down its 3G network and have its users rely solely on...
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Sprint bringing LTE to San Francisco and over 20 more cities 'in coming...
We can't say we're exactly surprised Sprint would be bringing its 4G LTE waves to one of the biggest markets on the West Coast, but there's nothing like hearing it straight from the horse's carrier's...
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Voice over LTE now 'ready for widespread commercial deployment'
T-Mobile Austria, Huawei and Qualcomm have announced a relatively smooth handover of a voice calls between LTE and 3G network technologies. This should clear the way for manufacturers to start building...
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The Session Border Controllers of the Future
Pat MeLampy, Acme Packet's CTO, describes why next-gen communications servies like VoLTE will need a more powerful session border controller.Last week, Acme Packet announced a new session border...
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LTE looks great, but can we fix 2G coverage first?
EE's launch of LTE in the UK has reminded me of the very early days of 3G, when keen young journalists rushed around the cities where coverage was provided, and reported back that megabit-speeds were...
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We can never have unlimited bandwidth, QoS, & signaling resources
Six Trends and Nine Immutable Laws Part 10: Today’s IP networks are constructed using a selection of different quality of service (QoS) mechanisms and networks links with different bandwidth and...
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Vodafone CTO Opens Up on Small Cells
Vodafone CTO Steve Pusey shares the operator's plans for small cells and identifies the technology's biggest challenge...
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Verizon and Sprint detail LTE expansion plans
The great 4G race is upon us and two of America's major contestants are working on expanding their respective reach...
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