It’s become almost a tradition for me in December each year to have a look back at what happened in the previous 12 months in the telecoms industry and in my private technology endeavors that have left long lasting impression or have marked the start of something new. And so here we go again, in … Continue reading Things That Moved Me In 2015
Speaking of the 1 ms 5G latency myth in my previous post on the topic let's have a look at what round trip times are to servers on the Internet today over different access networks – with surprising results! (V)DSL: When I ping a sever pretty close to my location and within the network of … Continue reading Latency Comparison – DSL, UMTS, LTE and Fiber
Teltarif has recently reported (in German) some figures on fixed and mobile network usage in Germany on the 31st December 2011 which are interesting to play around with a bit. The article says that the Vodafone Germany network has transported 25 million megabytes between 8pm and 3am the other morning, i.e. in 7 hours. Let's … Continue reading Interesting Data Usage Stats for 31st December 2011
Currently there are only three network operators in France but the launch of the fourth network operator ‘Free’ is imminent. Perhaps Free will be the last startup mobile network operator to launch in Europe with a network from scratch for the next decades as the trend in most other European countries is for network operators … Continue reading What Iliad/Free Could Do
In a follow up to my 4G, 5G, 6G post from back in January, head over to Youtube and take a look at this. Priceless! This is probably the shortest post ever but enough is said already on the topic.
Here we go, a month after the first announcement and my latest book is finally shipping worldwide! After being printed in the UK it has made its long voyage to North America and other corners of the world and is now available for immediate delivery. Sales at Amazon seem to go nicely, Amazon has almost … Continue reading From GSM to LTE: The Book Is Shipping Now!
In the past, I've used 3G in the US mostly for Internet connectivity for my notebook with prepaid SIMs, as only my Europe / World – 3G USB dongle could tune to the frequencies used in the US. But now with the new Nokia Symbian^3 phones with pentaband UMTS support such as the N8 and … Continue reading 3G On The Mobile For The First Time In The US – Thank You Pentaband UMTS!
These days I have to rub my eyes when reading just about any wireless news tidbits from the US. In almost every report the acronym "4G" is used for just about everything that is faster than a crawling few kbit/s. 4G is HSPA, 4G is LTE, 4G is this, 4G is that. Well, 4G isn't … Continue reading The G Is Dead, Long Live the G!
Right after 'open' and 'unlimited' the most mis-used word or acronym in the wireless industry is 4G. HSPA+ is not 4G, LTE is not 4G and Wi-MAX most definitely is not 4G either as they are all part of the IMT-2000 family, which is 3G. Call them 3.5G, 3.9G, 3G+, 3.999G, whatever, but 4G is … Continue reading LTE-A Now Officially a 4G Technology
I can't quite remember when I last depended on 2.5G EDGE to connect my notebook to the Internet, must have been a couple of years ago, perhaps back in 2008, as 3G has become pretty ubiquitous at the places I went. But recently in Thailand, where 3G has not yet quite arrived and the hotel … Continue reading On the EDGE again