A brokerage firm has teamed up with two of the world's best-known telcos to introduce an electronic exchange for trading wholesale, cross-border telecoms capacity. According to press reports, the exchange - Tirex - will be launched early next year...
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.
Edge would allow them to increase the capability and capacity of the 2G spectrum, and provide a wider deployment of high-bandwidth coverage than would be economically feasible using 3G alone. Either way, though, Edge comes with another advantage...
However, it doesn't plan to start charging customers until the third quarter of 2006. A recent report from Infonetics claimed that the WiMax market will be worth $1.6bn by 2009 but the OECD took a more pessimistic view, claiming that poor spectrum...
When you have a fibre running into your home, it is its own little universe with dedicated bandwidth but wireless spectrum is something that we all have to share. We need to encourage conservation of spectrum and encourage users to use the network...
WiMax is currently only available in very limited deployments in the UK and only in its "fixed" variant, with the prospects for "mobile WiMax" - the type needed for portable devices - depending on upcoming spectrum auctions.