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Adrian Scrase, Vice President, International Partnership Projects, 3GPP, says that although LTE came to market later than anticipated, it has grown more rapidly than expected. And while there are now 40 bands in which LTE is specificed, there is a “disaster looming” as device radios will not contain all those bands.

NSN throws down gauntlet on smartphone signalling burden

NSN has accused its competitors of overlooking the signalling burden on 3G networks

Most infrastructure vendors are failing to address the signalling burden placed on 3G mobile networks by high end smartphones, according to Nokia Siemens Networks.

Adriane Scrase, VP International Partnership Projects, 3GPP at LTE Asia 2009

Julien Bright, Senior Analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media talks to Adriane Scrase, VP International Partnership Projects for 3GPP at LTE Asia 2009.

Stephen Hayes, chairman, 3GPP Systems Group

Stephen Hayes, chairman, 3GPP Systems Group

As a principal engineer at Ericsson, Stephen Hayes has been extensively involved in the development of GSM and related systems such as LTE and IMS over the past ten years. He also holds a number of patents in the area of telecommunications.

3GPP flies femto standard

Femtocells: one size fits all

Standards body 3GPP, in collaboration with industry associations the Femto Forum and the Broadband Forum announced Tuesday the creation of the first femtocell standard.

The speed challenge

There are some questions that come up time and time again when talking about WiMAX. One of those is how will 802.16e differentiate from 3.5G cellular networks in terms of downlink and uplink performance? Is there really such a big difference, particularly as 3G moves towards HSPA and HSPA+?