It is possible that technologies such as EDGE can replicate the speed of UMTS, but it is widely accepted that it is good to have additional spectrum, which you will need for higher bandwidth applications," she said.
If the number of active subscribers is lower than reported, the average revenue per subscriber is higher. Vodafone is often touted as the UKs' leading mobile operator in terms of subscriber numbers. According to Simon Buckingham, an industry...
To be really useful, especially to operators who hold both 2G and 3G licences and spectrum, the handsets would need to support GSM/GPRS, Edge and 3G. Either way, though, Edge comes with another advantage, in that it uses the same frequencies as GSM...
In its favour, Cell ID is inherent in the way mobile networks work and has a ready-made subscriber base. Incumbent operators like T-Mobile and BT with only a few years of life left in their GSM licences will not spend big [on LBS]," he said.
In consequence, it has developed a predominantly business client base, a base that generates one of the highest average revenue bases per subscriber in the industry (ARPU). The past three years have witnessed volatility and rapidly changing demand...
This vision inched closer to reality on Wednesday with the news that hardware vendor IP Wireless had begun shipping "dual band" PC Card modems that would use radio spectrum that has been awarded to 3G operators in Europe, Australasia and the Far...
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