CONTENTS OCTOBER11 16 | STRONG FOUNDATIONS
US carrier Sprint officially announced plans to begin offering LTE services to more than 250 million potential customers in early October. As the industry’s worst kept secret the move came as no surprise, but what did raise eyebrows was the firm’s target launch date of mid-2012 with a view to full network build out by 2013. A full two years sooner than anticipated.
FRONT Editorial
Analysis US carrier AT&T’s bid to acquire T-Mobile USA has attracted staunch opposition from the US Department of Justice, as well as fellow carriers. DoJ says T-Mobile is vital to ongoing competition in the market, but is it just trying to drive concessions from AT&T? In the handset sector the use of patents in the competitive battle is stepping up as players arm one another with the tools of legal warfare. Google’s at the heart of this wrangle, but also busy with its mobile wallet deployment.
Sponsor’s Q&A Nokia Siemens Networks’ head of LTE business line talks novel business models, terminal delays, spectrum issues and small cells.
INTERVIEW
StephenBye, CTO of Sprint Nextel talks about network evolution.
Thomas Noren, Ericsson’s head of LTE product line, talks about the Swedish vendor’s experiences with LTE so far.
| Global Events 2011
AfricaCom 9 - 10 November 2011, Cape Town, South Africa
www.comworldseries.com/africa www.africacast-event.com www.enterprise-ictafrica.com
AfricaCom is the largest communications conference and exhibition in the continent gathering together 5,000+ telecoms decision- makers. Benefit from 40+ hours of conference sessions delivered by 150+ visionary speakers and an exhibition featuring 250+ of the world’s leading
Broadband Traffic Management Global Congress 15 -17 November 2011 London, UK
http://www.broadbandtrafficevent.com
OTTtv World Summit 15 -17 November 2011 London, UK
www.ottworldsummit.com
international solutions and technology providers. This year you’ll be spoilt for choice with 11 special focus sessions, 4 strategic keynotes, and 2 co-located events, AfricaCast and Enterprise ICT Africa, and 2 days of technology specific Masterclasses in the exhibition.
Mobile Roaming World Summit 2011 16 -17 November 2011 London, UK
www.roamingconference.com
Middle East Telco World Summit 2011 29 - 30 November 2011 Dubai, UAE
http://me.comworldseries.com
FEATURES
TD-LTE China is renowned for its staunch commitment to home-grown technology, even if that technology is sometimes a hard sell. TD-LTE, however, is not such a hard sell and it’s gathering momentum worldwide.
LTE Advanced An arsenal of technical solutions has been compiled that, in various combinations, will boost the performance of LTE, creating the ‘True 4G’ of LTE Advanced. But opinions are divided over how soon it will arrive, and whether or not it’s even necessary.
VoLTE
Mobile operators are faced with the task of bridging the gap between their network evolution strategies and current 2/3G realities, as voice continues to be the killer app for mobile operators.
LTE Roaming Mary Clark, SVP Roaming, Syniverse, looks at how disparate next-generation networks connect with each other and existing 2G/3G deployments, and how customers take the 4G experience outside the operator’s home network.
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LTE Americas The latest information on trials, tests and deployments of LTE in North and Latin America, from the Global Mobile Suppliers Association.
THE INFORMER
The untimely death of Apple founder Steve Jobs in early October triggered an outpouring of grief.
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