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Voice and LTE – What’s An Operator to Do?
LTE networks are being launched in some countries, while in others bid documents for spectrum in which LTE networks are to be deployed are being prepared, or soon will be. One of the controversial questions LTE operators have to address with significant implications for their technology, investments, choice of vendor, and business plans, is whether and how to offer voice services to their LTE customers. The same challenge applies to mobile WiMAX operators, but their role is expected to be minor compared to that of LTE in anything but the short term.
South Africa Goes Its Own Way at 2.6GHz
ICASA has now finally announced or confirmed its spectrum plans for the 2.6GHz band in which four licenses of 30MHz will be awarded. This structure puts South Africa firmly in the camp of “I’ll do it my way” with regard to likely deployments of wireless systems in this band, which otherwise has the potential of being the most widely adopted standardized band for broadband mobile communications services on a global level.
Mobile WiMAX and its Shrinking Ecosystem
Over the past months a series of events and decisions by leading wireless equipment suppliers raises doubts about which and how many among them will be devoting significant efforts and investments, and giving high priority to the development and commercialization of future generations of mobile WiMAX equipment beyond current TDD systems.
South Africa and the 2.6GHz Band Plan – Isolation or Harmonization
Martyn Roetter, July 24, 2009
South Africa has an opportunity through its allocation and attribution of spectrum in the valuable 2.6GHz band (2500-2690MHz) to become a broadband wireless pacesetter for its own economic and social benefit, as well as Africa’s.
