Mobile operators team up to take on next-gen DSL
Some of the world’s biggest mobile operators are teaming up to take on fixed broadband and try to avoid the expensive mistakes of 3G.
That has highlighted the fierce debate over which standards will win out, and the most cost effective way to move to the next generation of mobile technology.
“We are competing against DSL,” says Joachim Horn, managing director of technology at T-Mobile in Germany. “The world will become copperless. Everything will be mobile at the edge.”
That has highlighted the fierce debate over which standards will win out, and the most cost effective way to move to the next generation of mobile technology.
“We are competing against DSL,” says Joachim Horn, managing director of technology at T-Mobile in Germany. “The world will become copperless. Everything will be mobile at the edge.”
T-Mobile is a founder member of NGMN Ltd, set up by the operator members of the Next Generation Mobile Networks industry body in September. Other founder members include KPN, Orange, Vodafone, Sprint Nextel, NTT DoCoMo and China Mobile.
The body is an important step towards plans to roll out 3G LTE (long-term evolution) services—the next stage in the development of cellular networks based on GSM/WCDMA—as early as 2010.
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