AT&T to Deploy Femtocells in Customer Trials Next Year
AT&T has confirmed plans to roll out femtocells in 2009 with broad customer testing beginning in the second quarter of next year after the conclusion of small-scale employee testing. AT&T had signed an agreement with UK small scale cell site solutions developer ip.access worth $500 million over five years in order to deploy femtocell technology […]
AT&T to Complete HSPA Network Upgrade This Year
AT&T Vice-President of Network Architecture Hank Kafka has made definitive statements regarding the carrier’s progress in upgrading its 3G W-CDMA enabled markets. Speaking at a roundtable meeting sponsored by the GSM Association, Kafka stated that AT&T had 255 markets with HSDPA access in 2007 and expects to add more with a total goal of 350 […]
Qualcomm to Begin HSPA+ Trials This Year
Qualcomm has announced in a press release today that the company intends to begin preliminary trials of the HSPA+ protocol with carriers Hutchison 3G, Telecom Italia, Telefonica and Telstra. The HSPA+ protocol is a further evolution of W-CDMA HSDPA access allowing for a stated maximum download speed of 28Mbps using 2×2 MIMO transmission and 21Mbps using QAM modulation on […]