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Vodafone España ha anunciado que realizará las pruebas precomerciales de LTE en el mercado español con el módem USB K5005 de Huawei.

El módem USB Stick K5005 de Huawei integra tecnología LTE (Long Term Evolution). Este módem fue probado con éxito en la prueba piloto de LTE realizada en Santander con motivo del XXV Encuentro de las Telecomunicaciones (5-8 septiembre) organizado por la UIMP y AMETIC

El K5005 es autoinstalable con sólo enchufarlo al conector USB del ordenador de sobremesa o del portátil para sistemas operativos Windows y Mac. Cuenta con un diseño muy compacto y ligero (pesa menos de 40 gramos), incluye toma USB 2.0 y ranura para tarjeta MicroSD.
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Vodafone España ha anunciado hoy el despliegue de la tecnología LTE con la puesta en marcha los primeros proyectos piloto en entorno real en tres ciudades españolas: Madrid, Barcelona y Málaga. Además, la tecnología LTE estará operativa en Santander durante la celebración del XXV Encuentro de las Telecomunicaciones que se celebra del 5 al 8 de septiembre.

El anuncio se lleva a cabo tras la finalización de la subasta pública del espectro abierta por el Gobierno el pasado 29 de junio y la adjudicación de las nuevas frecuencias móviles. Vodafone España ha adquirido un total de 60 megahercios (2 x 10Mz en la banda de 800MHz y 2 x 20MHz en la banda de 2,6GHz), con una inversión de 518 millones de euros, lo que le permitirá mantener su apuesta por la innovación y llevar a cabo la implantación de los servicios LTE (Long Term Evolution) para ofrecer a sus clientes servicios de Internet móvil de última generación en todo el país. Vodafone ya realizó diferentes demostraciones de esta tecnología durante la celebración del último Mobile World Congress en Barcelona y tendrá como referencia la experiencia de Vodafone Alemania, que ya lanzó LTE a finales de 2010.
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LG Electronics (LG) is aiming to up the mobile market ante with the world’s first demonstration of Voice over LTE (VoLTE) and Video call over LTE at this year’s Mobile World Congress on the LG Revolution™, the first 4G LTE smartphone from LG.

Emerging from the GSMA initiative to create a global standard for delivering voice and messaging services over LTE, the “One Voice” protocol is expected to be widely adopted by mobile makers in the future with LG at the forefront of introducing the new technology to consumers.
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LTE networks will account for 4 percent of the world’s mobile connections within five years, according to a major new report by Wireless Intelligence. The new study, Global LTE network forecasts and assumptions 2010-2015, predicts that global LTE connections will surpass the 1 million mark in the first half of 2011 and will reach 300 million by 2015 as the world’s mobile operators ramp-up rollout of the next-generation network technology.

The study forecasts that Asia Pacific will be the world’s largest LTE region by 2015, contributing almost half (43 percent) of global LTE connections by this point (see Table 1). China – the world’s largest mobile market – is expected to account for around half of the Asia Pacific total. However, LTE network migration will initially be driven by operators in Western Europe and North America, which account for a combined 70 percent of global LTE connections in 2010. This is due to early LTE network rollouts by operators such as TeliaSonera (Europe) and Verizon Wireless (USA). Asia Pacific is expected to become the largest LTE market as migration gathers pace in major markets such as China, Japan, Indonesia and South Korea. The Americas and Africa are expected to be the two regions slowest to migrate to LTE, collectively accounting for just 5 percent of global LTE connections by 2015.

“The introduction of LTE networks reflects the move the telecoms industry is making towards delivering cloud-based and converged services, and an improved user experience,” said Joss Gillet, Senior Analyst at Wireless Intelligence and author of the report. “Our latest forecasts show that LTE is being adopted by operators across the globe, but the pace of migration will be faster in countries where mobile broadband is on the political agenda and favourable regulatory developments are taking place – especially with regards to spectrum. However, creating a profitable ecosystem around the new networks will take time and it may take a few years for LTE services to live up to the hype.”

The study is based on all known LTE deployments scheduled to take place over the next five years (excluding India). It predicts that 19 live LTE networks will be up-and-running across the globe by year-end 2010. These include major commercial LTE launches due later this month from market-leading operators such as NTT Docomo (Japan), Deutsche Telekom (Germany) and Etisalat (UAE). The world’s first commercial LTE networks were launched a year ago by TeliaSonera in Sweden (Stockholm) and Norway (Oslo); TeliaSonera has since rolled-out LTE across its Nordic footprint, including in Finland and Denmark. Wireless Intelligence forecasts that global LTE connections will reach 350,000 by year-end 2010.

“Subscriber uptake of LTE is initially being driven by demand for data-centric mobile broadband services, typically accessed via USB dongles and embedded devices for which operators will charge a premium,” said Gillet. “We predict that the introduction of voice over LTE (VoLTE) by around 2012 will mark the ‘tipping point’ for mass-market LTE handset volume shipments, which will accelerate LTE connections growth. However, premium price points and limited availability means that we will see low LTE handset penetration in the short term.”

LTE migration will also be dependent on regulators allocating suitable frequency bands, the study says. It highlights three main spectrum scenarios for the deployment of LTE services; the release of IMT extension spectrum in the 2500-2600MHz bands, the release of ‘digital dividend’ spectrum in the 700-800MHz bands, and the re-farming of existing spectrum.

The new Global LTE network forecasts and assumptions 2010-2015 report is available to Wireless Intelligence customers and select members of the media. Please contact info@wirelessintelligence.com for further information.

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Nokia Siemens Networks has established a common core network for GSM, 3G and LTE
Subscribers of Tele2 Sweden now enjoy faster access to a wide range of high-quality voice, data and real time multimedia services. Tele2 is using Nokia Siemens Networks Evolved Packet Core (EPC) in their launch of Long Term Evolution (LTE)* technology, providing faster mobile broadband.
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