Maravedis Blogs

VoLTE will not be the cellcos' savior

Mobile operators cling to the voice-driven model they understand, but the profitable user experience has moved on By Caroline Gabriel Anyone who is getting caught up in the current enthusiasm...

Nokia boosts US presence with SAC purchase

Finnish firm's second infrastructure acquisition with Microsoft cash focuses on indoor small cell and DAS deployments By Caroline Gabriel Nokia, in its new handset-free life, is building up its largest...

Three architectures combine for the new LTE

To meet mobile data demands in the second half of the decade, operators look to build two layers, with different base station types By Caroline Gabriel There is little room...

Chinese trio get FDD trial licences, no 700MHz

All three operators now have paired and unpaired spectrum, but will wait until 2015 for commercial FDD, and 2020 for sub-1GHz By Caroline Gabriel China Mobile suffered from being the...

Qualcomm buys Black Sand to strengthen RF offering

Chip giant pushes further into RF front end space, following launch of RF360, but may also have its eye on patents By Caroline Gabriel Qualcomm dropped a bombshell on the...

Press Release: MNOs redirecting resources to vi...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MIAMI, Florida, and BROCKENHURST, England, June 25, 2014- There will be a significant shift in operator budgets at the expense of conventional equipment, towards new HetNet platforms,...