The Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) today published its latest GSM/3G Market Update. Amongst the issues reported this month, GSA has confirmed that 300 WCDMA networks have been commercially launched in 126 countries. WCDMA has achieved approaching 75% market share of commercial 3G networks with an estimated 410+ million subscriptions. GSA says that 95% of [...]

The European Union in a decision this week formally approved the use of 3G and eventually 4G data on the 900MHz and 1800MHz GSM bands. The measure substantially improves the amount of bandwidth available for cellular Internet access in EU states and should render it less expensive as well. Besides reducing the need for more [...]

Operators are seeing a dramatic increase in data traffic – but now need to operate smart controls to protect their revenues and the user experience, says Merav Bahat The growing adoption of Apple’s iPhone, and the G1 Google phone combined with flat-rate data plans is creating a dramatic increase in mobile Internet traffic. This increased [...]

The mobile broadband battle is hotting up, but does it really matter which technology rules the day, and is the notion of competition really just a distraction? In mobile broadband, the temperature of debate is rising rapidly. It’s WiMAX vs. LTE vs. HSPA+, with a torrent of propaganda washing over sensible comment. Despite the cacophony [...]