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Industry looking to fine-tune performance as popularity grows
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 24/11/2010
» New 3G technology on the network side could mean a 30 percent improvement in battery life for smart phones, while development of 2G networks continue to increase data capacity in a world that will soon be dominated by handsets sending small amounts of data all day.
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Challenges ahead for telco firms
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 29/12/2010
» The new Frequency Allocation Act has failed to keep up with technology according to an NTC commissioner while all the major telcos agree that concession conversion is needed for a level playing field and to prepare the industry for imminent AFTA and WTO trade liberalisation.
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The winding road to 4G
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 15/09/2010
» From a world with many technologies in 2G to one with a few in 3G, the world is moving towards LTE as a great harmonising standard. The standard for 1GBPS (that is 1,000MBPS) LTE, the speed that the ITU defines as 4G, is expected to be ratified this year and equipment available by 2014.
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Confusion reigns over three-point-whatever
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 15/09/2010
» Just what is 3.9G? To most of the world, 3.9G means LTE, long term evolution, but for Thai people 3.9G is a vague concept of 42MBPS, but quite what technology it is seems to be beyond most of the people I asked at the 3.9G Thailand Human DNA event.
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Perhaps we can just skip 3G altogether?
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 18/08/2010
» Should we skip 3G and go straight for 4G? Or do we need to walk before we run and evolve? A couple of years ago, I was all for leapfrogging to 4G. Then, the telcos convinced me that 3G had economies of scale that could not be ignored. But more recently, the technical limitations of 3G are becoming more and more painful as smart phones get smarter and notebooks get more bandwidth-hungry.
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Unclogging the networks
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 04/08/2010
» While most of today's modern 3G data plans talk of megabytes of data, airtime minutes are still important and telcos need tools to help them see the hidden congestion that is clogging up their networks to provide a better end user experience.
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Some are more neutral than others in spectrum sector
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 12/05/2010
» Neutrality. It is easy to preach it but sometimes in order to be neutral, one must take sides. Nowhere is this paradox more true than in the mess that is spectrum regulation in the mobile telecommunications sector.
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Technology to boost public safety
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 02/06/2010
» SINGAPORE : Motorola is taking public safety solutions to a new level with the launch of the industry's first Tetra 2 in-car radio with high-speed TEDS data along with far-ranging improvements to its command and control and intelligence systems that help support mission-critical operations in policing, fire, oil and gas through to transportation, airport, seaport and other industries.
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After all the waiting games, Thailand looks set to leapfrog 3G
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 02/06/2010
» Thailand is going to leapfrog 3G entirely and go straight to 3.9G, according to newly appointed National Telecommunications Commissioner Dr Natee Sukonrat, who has burst on to the Twitter scene under his username of @DrNatee39G.
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NTC attempts to force out the squatters
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 16/06/2010
» Use it or lose it. That is the message the National Telecommunications Commission is telling ToT and other agencies who are now squatting on the lucrative 2.3GHz band, telling them to apply for 10-year licences and go commercial with Broadband Wireless Access via WiMAX soon, perhaps as early as September.
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