Posts Tagged ‘Trai’
A Personal Cell-Phone Tower – Femtocells (3G Mobile Phones – Published news)
This post is part of our new technology review series. Femtocells are small, low-power indoor cellular access points which improve the quality of voice calls and relieve some of the strain on traditional cell phone towers. Femtocells are useful for indoors, especially in densely populated areas. Wit …
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Tags: 3G, Femtocell, femtocells, Technology, Trai
Predictions for 2010: Mobile Winners and Losers (Dean Bubley’s Disruptive Wireless)
It’s mid-December, so it must be time for the annual prediction season. I’ve tried to keep them short and sharp and to the point – there’s plenty of detailed argument behind each of these if people are interested. I’m off away on holiday tomorrow, so may not get a chance to respond to comments. Heros HSPA+ Just like LTE, but it’s got voice and it’s straighforward to implement Apple iPhone -…
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AT&T Scrambles To Upgrade as Data Strains Network (Mobile Tech Today)
In an address at a USB conference in New York Wednesday, AT&T executive Ralph de la Vega told investors that the performance of the wireless provider’s 3G network is being strained by the heavy data demands of a relatively small number of smartphone users. Just three percent of all AT&T network users are consuming 40 percent of the carrier’s capacity, he said. AT&T’s mobility strategy put…
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Femtocells Are a No Show and 2010 May Not Be Much Better (Remove the Labels)
ABI Research that indicates that femtocell shipments this year have been well, less than impressive. The technology, which creates essentially a micro-cell tower in the home, helps with coverage issues by allowing users to make calls over their home broadband connection. They’re useful to carriers, in that they ease strain on local towers, but so far many operators have done a pretty poor job…
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Tags: Femtocell, femtocells, Technology, Trai
CLEAR “true 4G” WiMAX arrives: faster speeds, new logo (SlashGear)
The whole Clearwire/Clear/WiMAX/Sprint/XOHM branding situation was never all that straightforward to begin with; let’s face it, consumers want to know exactly what they should be asking for when they go into the store. Now Clearwire are seemingly intending to make things easier – or upset the whole situation once more, perhaps – with a fresh new relaunch as CLEAR . The new name apparently…
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Tags: 4G, Clearwire, Sprint, Trai, WiMAX
Femtocells – Another Route to Market ? (Iridiacom Blog)
We see that a UK manufacturer of Femtocells has decided to make an attempt to go direct to the consumer market rather than the usual business model of via the Mobile Carriers. Hay Systems Ltd have ignored the regular route of making deals with Mobile Carriers in favour of a straight to consumer sale. The problem they have [...]
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Tags: ATT, Femtocell, femtocells, Hay Systems, Trai
DoT asks TRAI to limit on number of operators (India)
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TRAI wants telcos to bear the cost of number portability (India)
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The implementation of WiMAX services is moving forward (Broadband Expert Blog)
Proof-of-concept trials for WiMAX are no longer required as the pilot phase of rolling out WiMAX wireless broadband services to planes, trains and buses has now moved to full deployment. Questions on the best technology to be applied to trains, how much bandwidth will be required and what the best business model still need to be [...]
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Voda UK femtocells in the real world (Dean Bubley’s Disruptive Wireless)
Hats off to Andrew Grill for his write-up of getting hold of one of the new Vodafone femtocells to use in his flat in London. Bottom line is – it does what is says “on the tin”, but there are a few teething difficulties in actually buying and installing it. The issues with training retail store staff are not insubstantial, especially with niche or unusual products. I remember having much the same…
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Tags: Femtocell, femtocells, Trai, Wireless
O2 UK announces Fixed Number Anywhere service, offers landline numbers for mobiles
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: O2 UK introduces a new service dubbed as Fixed Number Anywhere, which will be a service based on convergence for SMEs. The service will give users a landline-style number that channels calls straight through to their mobile phone, a O2 spokesperson reportedly said.
Subscribers who sign up in 2009 will be able to port their [...]
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Orange UK sells Toshiba TG01 exclusively for free on select tariff plans
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Orange UK receives exclusive rights for the Toshiba TG01, a Windows Mobile handset. Orange will reportedly offer the handset across UK from today, for free of charge on select tariff plans.
Orange’s Toshiba TG01 comes with an 8GB MicroSD card, and it’s pre-loaded with a “GI Joe” trailer, which should make good use of the [...]
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TRAI unveils statistics for network congestion (India)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has reportedly unveiled that in the first three months of 2009 congestion on the country’s mobile networks had increased. The regulator claimed that Reliance Communications (RCOM) and Idea Cellular had the most congested networks of the private operators, with Tata Teleservices (TTSL) ranked as having the least [...]
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Tags: IDEA Cellular, India, Trai, Wireless
Telecom industry reports a downfall in subscribers addition (India)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Indian telecom industry has reported a downfall in subscribers’ addition for the second month in a row, with 11.59 million wireless subscribers being added in May 2009.
This is against an addition of 11.90 million wireless users in April, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said. Total 11.44 million telephone connections (wireless and wireline) were [...]
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Delay in WiMAX Auction Affects Tata Communications’ Growth (Wimax News )
Tata Communications Ltd. says that it faces stunted growth in its retail broadband Internet services business due to a delay in a government WiMAX spectrum auction. The government auction was supposed to be held in late 2008, but it is now scheduled for the end of August or early September 2009. “Without WiMAX, growth will be minimal because there is a constraint on the cables in place,” said…
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Train and tube commuters to benefit from mobile broadband upgrades (Broadband Expert Blog)
The promise of the expansion of super-fast broadband connections throughout the UK made recently by the governments Digital Britain report will also include the implementation of an improved broadband service across the whole of the national rail network, including the underground tube system. The current mobile broadband experiences on train and tube commuters usually involves limited [...]
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Research and Markets: World Markets for WiMAX Chipsets – a Detailed Analysis of Market Drivers, Restraints, Revenue Forecasts and Pricing Trends (Business Wire)
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TRAI posts financial data for telecommunication providers (India)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Telecommunication Authority of India, TRAI has posted the financial data of telecommunication service providers for the quarter ending March. The data caters to state-wide gross revenue, adjusted gross revenue, licence fees and spectrum charges from each service provider. The telcos include are Reliance, Aircel, Bharti Airtel, Idea group, Tata Teleservices, Vodafone Essar, BPL Communications, [...]
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Number Portability to cost not more than Rs. 300 (India)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The subscribers will be charged not more than Rs. 300 to avail number portability service, likely to start from September 20. “It will be one time cost for subscribers seeking portability but the charge is not yet finalised by the DoT and TRAI, on which they are working. So far, it seems the charges [...]
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TRAI issues new VAS rules (India)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The Indian telecoms regulator, TRAI has directed all the mobile service providers including the state owned BSNL and MTNL, to ensure new consumer protection measures for VAS in next one and a half month. Under the new rules, after a customer expresses interest in subscribing to VAS, the service provider will have to convey [...]
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Mozambique delays third mobile licence tender
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Mozambique’s National Institute for Communications (INCM) has delayed the tender to award the country’s third mobile licence. According to a local media report, the INCM based its decision on “financial and technical constraints”. The decision is likely to be influenced by the complaints of the two existing mobile service [...]
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Batelco delivers strong growth Q1′09
Speaking at Batelco’s Group Board Meeting held on April 22nd at Batelco’s Hamala Headquarters, Shaikh Hamad said that growth is the key to Batelco’s future success and profitability.
“We remain focused on delivering better service and value to our customers in Bahrain within the regulatory constraints we face. Despite increased choice and competition across all markets [...]
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India adds 15.64Mn mobile subscribers in March
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The Indian mobile operators have added a record 15.64 million subscribers for the month of March, driven by network expansion in the rural areas, reports TRAI. The mobile subscriber base of India, the world’s fastest growing mobile market, grew by 50%, to 391.8 million in the 12 months ended March.
The country also had about [...]
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Bouygues Telecom adds Moviken itransport i-mode application (France)
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: French mobile operator Bouygues Telecom has added the itransport service from content publisher Moviken to its i-mode portal. The application calculates itineraries for trains, metros, trams, buses and coaches across the country. It covers most of France’s 400 transport networks, provided by 1,600 companies. The service can be used on around 20 phones, including [...]
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COAI asks TRAI to recalculate MTC (India)
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: COAI, GSM operators’ association has asked TRAI to rework the mobile termination charges (MTC) as the regulator has not yet deemed key cost components like capex of operators while slashing the charges to 20 paise. Earlier, COAI had said as per the calculations based on international best practices, the three-year forward looking MTC was [...]
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Tags: Femtocell, Femtocell News, GSM, India, MTC, Trai, Wireless
Lebanon reframes distribution policy and prices for prepaid cellular cards to combat black market sales
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation,com/news: As the April approaches, the distribution of prepaid cellular cards in Lebanon will be rearranged and new prices will be launched in order to restrain from the black market sales. Minister Jibran Bassil has announced the new distribution policy of prepaid cellular cards at a press conference.
Bassil said that the step taken will bring [...]
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TRAI requests mobile operators to reduce roaming SMS tariffs (India)
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, TRAI, asks the mobile operators to cut down the SMS tariffs for their roaming subscribers.
According to TRAI chairman Nripendra Misra, SMS should not be priced more than the call charges levied on roaming. He further said that mobile operators have been communicated about this and have agreed to [...]
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Reliance Communication adds 3.3 million new subscribers in Feb’09 (India)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Reliance Communication, the Indian mobile operator, has reportedly added 3.3 million new subscribers in the month of February. The operator, according to TRAI data, had ended January 2009 with a subscriber base of 66.3 million.
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TRAI lowers mobile termination charges to 20p/min (India)
Trai has cut termination charges by 33%, this reduction will lead to lowered mobile tariffs for consumers. The regulator has slashed the termination charges on local calls to 20 paise a minute from existing 30 paise.
The new incumbents like Datacom, Unitech, Shyam-Sistema and Loop Telecom among others were insisting on 0-10 paise per minute termination [...]
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New telcos propose low termination fee (India)
Swan, Unitech, Datacom, Loop and Reliance Communications have proposed TRAI to slash the termination charges, while existing GSM players, led by Bharti, want the 30 paise per minute charge to continue. The lower termination fee in the overall review of interconnection charge will affect the retail tariff.
“The termination charge for new entrants is a cost [...]
