China’s adoption of consumer technology has been nothing short of staggering. In a very short space of time, China has leapfrogged from being one of the least significant players on the global stage, to the leader. This fact is highlighted by the recent statistics that reveal China has just passed the United States as the
In a live webinar event, hosted by the Wireless Broadband Alliance, Monica Paolini explored the revenue benefits of Next Generation Hotspot (NGH) and the implications it would have on existing wireless data infrastructure. The findings were very positive. “Fixed and mobile operators need to evaluate the business benefits of deploying NGH Wi-Fi and assess how
Airports handle a staggering amount of travellers each year. London Heathrow saw over 70 million people pass through its gates in 2012. At Beijing International, the figure was closer to 82 million and Atlanta International Airport hosted nearly 96 million passengers. These figures do not include friends, family, loves ones, the hundreds of thousands of
The ‘always on, always connected’ lifestyle is moving ever closer. Globally, smartphones are out-shipping PCs and as mobile devices grow in power, so too do the expectations of end-users. However, truly seamless connectivity has always been something of a Holy Grail. 3G networks are famously precarious at times and while Wi-Fi has done a stellar
Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the fastest growing regions for internet traffic in the world, with South Africa at the heart of the data explosion. Mobile data in South Africa grew 490 per cent year-on-year from the point it was introduced in 2007 to 2010. The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast (2012-2017) projected that
Access to the internet is playing an increasingly important role in society and nowhere is this more true than in developing regions. Not only does it have a very tangible impact on employment, productivity and GDP but it has an almost immeasurable impact on the underlying fabric that weaves society together.
The Shannon-Hartley theorem, otherwise known as Shannon’s Law, describes the maximum rate at which an amount of data can be transmitted within any given portion of spectrum. 4G technology is rapidly approaching the limits of Shannon’s Law meaning that it has reached the physical limit of wireless capacity of any given cell.
The term ‘carrier grade Wi-Fi’ is being thrown about the telecommunications industry quite a bit at the moment. Primarily, it is being touted as the answer to the potential spectrum deficit, as mobile service providers (MSPs) aim to move traffic away from their cellular networks to small cell infrastructure. However, to justify the capex of carrier
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is the platform that the company has used to launch some of its most loved innovations including the Mac Pro, OSX, the App Store, Facetime and the iPhone 4, to mention just a few. The 2013 WWDC was no different with iOS 7 taking centre stage. The platform is without
Wi-Fi as a technology carries a vast range of benefits; a fact underlined by an ABI Research report which found 1.5 billion Wi-Fi enabled devices shipped in 2012. Historically, Wi-Fi has been faster than cellular data and from an end-user perspective, this has been the primary advantage of the technology. Wi-Fi hotspots have filled the
