5G Spectrum Vision, Characteristics and Requirements
5G Spectrum Vision, Characteristics and Requirements Workshop on Collaboration in Asia for Spectrum for 5G Tuesday 28th June 2016, The workshop on spectrum collaboration in Asia for 5G was Co-Hosted by GSA, GSMA and GTI and was attended by those in government and regulatory positions as well as operators and vendors aligning on 5G services and products. Asia, as a region, has been very active in promoting 5G technology. Both Korea and Japan announced their intention to showcase 5G in the upcoming Olympic events during 2018 and 2020 respectively. Alignment from an early stage on deploying 5G globally…
Status of the LTE Ecosystem report: 5,614 LTE devices announced by 455 suppliers June 24, 2016 This updated report was published by GSA on June 24, 2016 and confirms the mainstream and fast growing LTE user devices ecosystem. As a result of our latest research and verification process we have increased to 5,614 the number of LTE user devices we have verified as announced in the market, coming from 455 suppliers. The number of LTE devices i.e. 5,614 as confirmed in this report is 2,361 higher than GSA reported in June 2015, representing 72% Y-o-Y…
GSA confirms global LTE subscriptions reach 1.29 billion
9th June 2016 GSA confirms global LTE subscriptions doubled in past year to reach 1.29 billion in Q1 2016 June 9, 2016: GSA, the Global mobile Suppliers Association, confirms that LTE continues to grow faster than any other mobile communications system technology. LTE gained 182 million connections in Q1 2016, almost 4 times faster than 3G/HSPA systems. 3G/HSPA subscriptions grew by 48 million while GSM subscriptions fell by 120 million in the same quarter. The number of LTE and LTE-Advanced subscriptions is expected to pass the 3G/WCDMA-HSPA global total in 2020, and possibly sooner. Download…
GSA Announces a New Narrow Band Internet of Things Report 9th June 2016: Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) has published the first of a series of reports on the Evolution to Narrow Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT). The report, which will be updated quarterly, reports on the progress of NB-IoT in the 3GPP standards body and covers global trials and commercial roll out of this industry changing technology. Download PDF for full press release text
The GSA Evolution to Narrow Band IoT (NB-IoT) is a new quarterly report from GSA that will track and report on the progress of this 3GPP technology. The report covers the progress of the standardisation of NB-IoT which should be frozen in June 2016 as part of Release-13. Also covered is the progress operators are making around the world on deploying technologies to deliver on the promise of billions of connected things by 2025. The report tracks Cat-1 and Cat-M1 commercial networks and trials and covers the Cat-NB1 pre-standard trials that operators, network suppliers, silicon…
The next generation of mobile technology, 5G, is envisaged to bring a “Networked Society”, providing an unlimited access to information and data at anytime, anywhere by anyone and anything. Education is one industry vertical that will benefit from 5G and this white paper considers some of the requirements of 5G for Education and how a future learning model will be an international, immediate, virtual, and interactive environment, which enables learners to learn and interact in a variety of different ways compared to how students are taught today. This is a joint White Paper between GSA and…
GSA, the (Global mobile Suppliers Association) confirms that the number of commercially launched LTE networks has passed the 500 milestone, which was achieved during May 2016. According to its latest research, 503 operators have commercially launched LTE networks in 167 countries. LTE is the fastest developing mobile communications system technology ever. The historic milestone of 500 commercially launched LTE networks was reached in 77 months from first service launch, almost 5 years less than the time taken by 3G/WCDMA systems, and 6 months faster than HSPA systems. GSA forecasts there will be at least 550…
A new short report from GSA “The Central Role of Telecoms in The Smart City” examines the way that communications networks are being used to underpin rapid development of smart cities. “The Central Role of Telecoms in The Smart City” report, commissioned from Innovation Observatory, argues that relationships between city authorities, communications service providers and telecom network equipment vendors are changing in response to two new drivers of smart city investment: the potential to use ‘big data’ and Internet of Things ideas, and the emergence of technologies that make it easier to create a…