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July 21, 2010: 4G TRENDS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
GRABBING 4G OPPORTUNITY
THIS WEEK'S FEATURED ARTICLES:
* Chile records another telecom first in Latin America: Net Neutrality Law
* Get a Grip on iPhone 4 Antenna Issues
* NSN snaps up most of Motorola’s wireless networks unit
4G TRENDS FEATURE:
CHILE RECORDS ANOTHER TELECOM FIRST IN LATIN AMERICA: NET NEUTRALITY LAW
By Wally Swain, Senior Vice President, Yankee Group Research
Chile’s Congress has passed the region’s first Net Neutrality law and the bill
only awaits presidential ratification. Perhaps northern countries would find
this pretty ho-hum stuff but few countries in Latin America even have this on
the agenda.
Chile has always been the most advanced LA country in telecom starting with
being the first market to introduce long distance competition back in the
nineties. Technologically Chile was the first to have MPLS and Entel PCS has
always been to first to launch advanced mobile services from EDGE to HSPA. The
company is strongly touted to be first out of the gate with LTE as well,
perhaps before the end of this year.
Net Neutrality raises passions both from users and operators.
Probably everyone would agree that ISPs should not block content except where
laws explicitly ban it (e.g. child pornography). Similarly, the management or
owners of an ISP shouldn’t be able to impose their political views by blocking
access to rival parties’ sites or webpages which promote ideas they don’t agree
with. Religious freedom will be respected as well.
The operators might not like it but they will have to accept that they
shouldn’t block Over-The-Top providers like Skype. Users will be infuriated and
regulators will investigate anti-competitive behavior. I think blocking OTTs is
just bad business practice: I’ll switch ISPs until I find one that reliably
delivers the OTT services I use, rather than stop using Skype (say) for long
distance calls. (Mysteriously, our Internet line here in Colombia always seems
to drop in the middle of long Skype calls. Hmmmm…. Could be just statistical
but in any event it’s sufficient evidence of poor service that we have to
maintain a second separate provider in Yankee Group office and will be
switching primary providers as soon as we can!)
The controversial bit of Net Neutrality is around network management: do
operators have the right to, for example, throttle back bandwidth to/from P2P
sites to maintain the integrity and service quality of the network.
Continue Reading…
http://4gtrends.com/?p=3876
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MOBILE INTERNET TRENDS
GET A GRIP ON iPHONE 4 ANTENNA ISSUES
By Carl Howe, Director, Yankee Group Research
20 db attenuation from a hand touching an antenna? Demand a recall! File a
class action lawsuit!! Off with their heads!!! Readers of tech news know that
I’m talking about the Apple iPhone antenna firestorm, whose flames were fanned
by Consumer Reports retracting its recommendation of the iPhone 4. The blog
notes the following:
Continue Reading…
http://4gtrends.com/?p=3868
WIMAX TRENDS:
NSN SNAPS UP MOST OF MOTOROLA’S WIRELESS NETWORKS UNIT
By Caroline Gabriel, Contributing Editor, 4G Trends
Motorola is not waiting until its planned break-up to offload its wireless
networking business, and as expected, Nokia Siemens is to acquire the bulk of
those activities. NSN will pay $1.2bn for most of the operations apart from the
iDEN system used by Sprint’s Nextel arm. The main attractions for NSN seem to
be a strengthening of its US base and the addition of CDMA to its portfolio.
These were the same factors that led it to bid for Nortel’s CDMA and LTE unit,
where it was gazumped by Ericsson.
Continue Reading…
http://4gtrends.com/?p=3864
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