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February 24, 2010: 4G TRENDS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER

THIS WEEK’S FEATURED ARTICLES:
* Defining the 4G roadmap – have your say
* But who’s to blame?
* Mobile World Congress: LTE trials mount up but mood is still cautious

4G TRENDS FEATURE:
DEFINING THE 4G ROADMAP – HAVE YOUR SAY
By Andrew Mitchell, Editor 4G Trends, Content Director, 4G World

Have your say in defining the 4G wireless road map by participating as a speaker at 4G World 2010.

4G World 2010 is seeking industry thought leaders to participate as speakers at 4G World 2010, October 18 – 21 at McCormick Place, Chicago. If you are a wireless industry business or technology thought leader, an innovator, ideator or experienced integrator, we want to hear from you.

The most exciting 4G industry event of the year, 4G World 2010 Conference and Expo is now soliciting innovative papers related to 4G wireless technologies and solutions. This leading conference brings together industry, academic and government professionals in a multi-track forum that covers the entire 4G wireless ecosystem. From infrastructure to devices, applications and business models, 4G World thought leaders share insights and expertise and facilitate interaction and innovation.

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MOBILE INTERNET TRENDS
BUT WHO’S TO BLAME?
By Wally Swain, Senior Vice President, Yankee Group Research

Because of my current research interests, most of my meetings at MWC 2010 in Barcelona were about mobile broadband and in particular, the crunch that network operators experience as usage soars.

At his press conference, Ericsson’s CEO seemed to breeze by the issue in a “Brave New World” speech (why do these always remind me of films from the 1939 New York World’s Fair?). But it came up in meetings with the rest of his company and with every other vendor I met with from Tier 1 network vendors (Alcatel-Lucent, NSN, Huawei), to OSS vendors (Amdocs, Comverse, Convergys, Telcordia), to mobile backhaul vendors (RAD, Cambridge) and of course with Femtocell vendors (Airvana) and specialists like Allot. It was the “elephant in the living room” in a Telecom TV panel discussion I did on WiFi and it even came up in a discussion with over-the-air TV chip maker Telegent who proposes their solution as a way to off-load streaming TV traffic from the mobile network.

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WIMAX TRENDS:
MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS: LTE TRIALS MOUNT UP BUT MOOD IS STILL CAUTIOUS
By Caroline Gabriel, Contributing Editor, 4G Trends

In the home of the 3GPP carriers at Mobile World Congress, there was less hype about LTE than many had expected, though there was plenty of talk of trials and pre-commercial products. More important were issues of extending the life of 3G networks with successive HSPA upgrades, and of migrating ’smoothly’ to LTE with unified cores and overlay strategies. Obstacles to rapid LTE progress were discussed as much as the promise of the new technology, with spectrum fragmentation, device timelines and the perennial voice issue all in the limelight.

Meanwhile, the WiMAX community was stressing its headstart, with a strong line-up of operators using the technology for real world and advanced business models. And as it looked to the new standard, WiMAX2, its supporters were showing increased maturity in addressing a wide range of business cases, some of them heavily geared to coexistence with cellular networks – 2G in emerging markets, 3G for offload and rapid broadband migration, even LTE for some operators with certain spectrum or market requirements.

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