Showing posts with label gigabit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gigabit. Show all posts
Saturday, 23 September 2017
Gigabit Era for Mobile Telefónica and Telia Make Strides
Gigabit Era for Mobile Telefónica and Telia Make Strides
The gigabit era for mobile Internet access is coming faster than many believe.
New improvements in 4G platforms will boost 4G network speeds to a gigabit per second on Telef�nica networks in Spain, while Telia plans to launch 5G in 2018, supplying gigabit speeds--and possibly multi-gigabit speeds--as well.
Telia plans to launch commercial 5G services in Sweden and Estonia in 2018, and recently demonstrated 5G operating in a real world environment over a live network.
The system used 800 MHz of spectrum in the 15 GHz band and achieved peak rates of 15 gigabits per user, and a latency below three milliseconds.
Separately, Telef�nica, Nokia, and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. have demonstrated download speeds of up to 800 Mbps on Telef�nica�s Long Term Evolution 4G mobile network. That is part of work the company is taking to boost peak speeds on its 4G network to a gigabit per second over the next few years.
The test used Nokia radio network equipment and a test terminal equipped with the Qualcomm Snapdragon X16 LTE modem.
To achieve the new throughput, two radio carriers were used, allowing mobile terminals to simultaneously download data from two frequency bands. MIMO 4x4 technology (Multiple-input Multiple-output) also was used, multiplying the number of data flows that a mobile terminal can use with a given cell.
Also, the new 256QAM modulation (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) also was employed. Taken together. All of these technologies will be introduced into the Telef�nica Spain radio network.
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Thursday, 14 September 2017
249 Billion Euros 277 Billion Needed to Deliver Fixed Network Gigabit in EU Study Suggests
249 Billion Euros 277 Billion Needed to Deliver Fixed Network Gigabit in EU Study Suggests
As you would guess, a study of gigabit Internet access costs, conducted by Analysys Mason for the European Community, suggests targeted enterprise connections cost the least of the fixed access alternatives, while ubiquitous fixed network gigabit networks cost most.
Ubiquitous 50-Mbps mobile access costs less than any fixed method, though not providing the same amount of bandwidth. That assessment could change over time.
Analysys Mason expects that by 2025, it will be possible for 1-Gbps peak speed to be provided from the macro cell network, with average speed around 180 Mbps.
The study authors note that other alternatives, including fixed wireless, cable TV technology and satellite will be capable of delivering gigabit speeds by 2025.
Still, Analysys Mason was asked to model only the �enterprise� deployment, mass market gigabit access (functionally limited to fiber to home or node) and mobile connectivity.
Fixed wireless, satellite and hybrid fiber coax were not modeled. Some of us might argue that might be reasonable for many of the European Community nations, if not necessarily the model that will develop on other regions.
source: European Commission
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Theres a Reason You Dont Hear Specifics About Gigabit Take Rates
Theres a Reason You Dont Hear Specifics About Gigabit Take Rates
Back in the days when cable TV operators first were rolling out consumer Internet access at speeds of 100 Mbps, it was virtually impossible to get subscriber numbers from any of the providers, largely because http://liveeconcerts.blogspot.com /2010/06/how-much-speed-is-enough.html" style="text-decoration: none;">take rates were low.
In the United Kingdom, then planning on upgrading consumer Internet access speeds to �superfast� 30 Mbps, officials complained about http://liveeconcerts.blogspot.com /2011/11/ofcom-warns-of-low-interest-in-super.html" style="text-decoration: none;">low demand. In fact, demand for 40 Mbps was http://liveeconcerts.blogspot.com /2011/03/bt-uk-frustrated-by-lack-of-fttc-demand.html" style="text-decoration: none;">less than expected.
In 2010, for example, about 40 percent of U.S. consumers were buying Internet access at about http://liveeconcerts.blogspot.com /2013/02/100-mbps-access-will-be-common-by-2020.html" style="text-decoration: none;">6 Mbps.
It is possible the same remains true for gigabit access services. No Internet service provider of any size actually releases the number of accounts, though most are happy to cite cities and neighborhoods served, or homes able to buy the service (passings).
Those are significant indicators, but still do not address the question of how many customers actually buy.
Early in 2016, Paul de Sa, Bernstein Research equity analyst, predicted Google Fiber would reach roughly 2.4 million homes by the end of 2017.
MoffettNathanson at roughly the same time predicted that AT&T would reach 5 million "customer locations" by the end of 2017. CenturyLink estimated in late 2015 that it would have 700,000 households passed by gigabit access networks in operation by the end of 2015.
Comcast, for its part, plans to upgrade 100 percent of its consumer base to gigabit access over the next few years.
The issue will still remain the take rates.
CenturyLink executives, for example, have said that http://liveeconcerts.blogspot.com /2015/03/sometimes-gigabit-access-primarily.html" style="text-decoration: none;">gigabit marketing primarily drives new sales of accounts buying 20 Mbps or 40 Mbps service.
It is clear that price matters. When Internet service providers http://liveeconcerts.blogspot.com /2014/11/nextlight-municipal-gigabit-network.html" style="text-decoration: none;">drop the price enough to create a really-compelling value-price offer, consumers respond.
If ISPs do not readily announce the number of gigabit accounts they have in service, it likely is because relatively few consumers are buying those services.
Municipal gigabit access provider NextLIght expects a take rate of about 37 percent after five years, selling gigabit service at a charter rate of $50 a month ($100 a month is the standard rate).
Based on experience from other markets, NextLight will have the best chance to reach those adoption goals if it sells at the $50 price, not the the $100 price.
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Monday, 21 August 2017
AT T Selling Gigabit Services to More than 3 Million Locations Will Exceed 12 5 Million Locations by 2019
AT T Selling Gigabit Services to More than 3 Million Locations Will Exceed 12 5 Million Locations by 2019
With the caveat that a �passing� (customer location that can buy a service) is not an �account,� AT&T says its gigabit services now are available in parts of 32 major metro areas, with plans to reach at least 45 metros by the end of 2016 and 67 markets overall.
AT&T says it is marketing service to over three million locations, of which over 500,000 include apartment and condo units. AT&T also says it is on track to exceed the 12.5 million locations planned by mid-2019.
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