Africa Telecoms Magazine - October 2010
LTE: The Future of Mobile Broadband LTE is a global standard which is the natural development route for GSM/HSPA mobile network operators and is also the next generation mobile broadband system for many CDMA operators. The overall aim of LTE is to improve the capacity of the 3GPP system to…
The definitive first step to 4G Networks Valérie Layan, EMEA Vice President for Wireless Solutions at Alcatel-Lucent, believes that it's LTE and not WiMAX that will champion the move towards 4G networks. Africa Telecoms caught up with her to more deeply explore what some of the reasons for this are. With the…
You’d think by the time a global technology reached its fourth iteration, the standards would have become pretty much, well….standard. Not in the telecoms business, however, where life would be very dull indeed if everyone agreed which technologies to use. Half your competitive edge comes from picking the right technology…
Fourth generation networks are some way off, but in the interim, two technologies are competing for their day in the sun. Which is due to win? While the argument continues to rage on between fourth generation mobile network pundits favouring long-term evolution (LTE) or WiMAX as the technology that will drive the…
In this issue of Africa Telecoms, we are focusing on 4G Technologies, both Wimax and LTE. The evolution path for CDMA technologies is towards LTE. Is this correct? What are the plans of the CCF moving towards that point of convergence? Yes, that is correct. The CCF certifies any device…
In the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Complaints Department had as its slogan “SHARE AND ENJOY.” Now this would be a great slogan for a company that made products that could in fact be shared and enjoyed, but in the case of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation (SCC),…
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