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Thursday 21 June, 2012 | Uncategorized

Author: Global View Partners. Due to dramatically increasing global demand, a number of new spectrum bands are being licensed to add capacity and/or foster new services and competition in mobile markets. In the Americas, the Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) band (90 MHz of ...

Thursday 21 June, 2012 | Uncategorized

Author: Analysys Mason. In this paper, we describe how mobile data traffic levels have evolved in recent years, compared to the forecasts in M.2072, and we assess the implications in terms of further growth in mobile data traffic beyond 2011. Download “Global mobile ...

Thursday 21 June, 2012 | Uncategorized

Author: CPqD. This document presents an analysis of the utilization of the 700 MHz radio electric spectrum range by telecommunication/broadcasting companies in Brazil and in certain countries of the world. The purpose of this study is to examine the available alternatives ...

Thursday 21 June, 2012 | Uncategorized

Author: CEG. Spectrum is the lifeblood of the mobile industry. The amount of spectrum made available and the terms on which it is made available fundamentally drive the cost, range and availability of mobile services. Across the world, substantial new spectrum is needed to ...

Thursday 21 June, 2012 | Uncategorized

Author: Arthur D. Little. Spectrum caps have been introduced in several countries at various times as one ex ante means to implement competition policy in mobile communications markets. They have been applied to help ensure that no single mobile operator, or a very small ...

Thursday 21 June, 2012 | Uncategorized

Author: Aegis Systems Limited. This report provides a review of the current status of planning for digital TV switchover in Latin America, with a specific focus on five countries, namely Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Argentina. This introductory chapter provides a ...

Thursday 21 June, 2012 | Uncategorized

Radio signals are difficult to contain, both in space and in frequency. There is always the potential for transmissions from one wireless system to cause interference to other signals on neighbouring frequencies or at nearby locations. Broadcasters are rightly concerned to ...

Thursday 21 June, 2012 | Uncategorized

Author: Aetha. The 700MHz band (channels 52 to 69, 698–806MHz) is relatively ‘clean’ in Mexico. The band is still used for analogue TV broadcasting, but none of the country’s 147 digital TV broadcasting channels operate in this band: digital TV is entirely broadcast in ...

Thursday 21 June, 2012 | Uncategorized

Author: Deloitte. This tax base includes differences in taxation regimes across countries and regions of the world and countries which tax mobile telephony over and above other goods and services. Such mobile specific taxation has been linked to the adoption of mobile ...

Thursday 21 June, 2012 | Uncategorized

It is particularly important that governments allocate 190MHz in the 2.6GHz frequency band for mobile broadband services. As well as offering a major increase in capacity, the 2.6GHz band has the potential to be used for mobile broadband services worldwide, providing ...

Thursday 21 June, 2012 | Uncategorized

The cost of renewal of spectrum usage rights should be based on principles of achieving the most economically efficient outcome, rather than short term revenue maximization for governments. The greatest value to society stemming from the use of mobile bands is generated by ...

Thursday 21 June, 2012 | Uncategorized

Practices such as BY PASSING networks or Alteration of the ANI of origin of the call traffic entering a mobile network, affect both mobile operators as well as general public interest. In first place, carrying out those practices prevents mobile operators from charging the ...

Thursday 21 June, 2012 | Uncategorized

The GSMA support a more technology neutral approach to the use of all the existing mobile bands. Governments should allow deployment of mobile technologies that can technically co-exist within the international regionally harmonised mobile bands. Governments should lift ...

Thursday 21 June, 2012 | Uncategorized

All countries should have a regulatory framework that enables operators to engage in voluntary spectrum trading. All types of spectrum trading, including trading of a spectrum usage right, trading of parts of a spectrum usage right and trades in terms of hiring contract ...

Thursday 21 June, 2012 | Uncategorized

At the World Radio Conference in 2007, the band 698 to 806 MHz was identified for IMT (International Mobile Telecommunications) in ITU Region 2 (which covers the Americas). However the exact band plan to be used was not specified at WRC07. There are significant benefits from ...

Thursday 21 June, 2012 | Uncategorized

The GSMA supports an open internet that enables customers to access the content, applications and services of their choice, in ways that provide them with the best possible experiences and services. Competition is the key to ensure that consumers and business customers have ...

Wednesday 30 May, 2012 | Uncategorized

The Administration of Colombia invites the other administrations taking part in the work of PCC.II to take steps at the regional level that help restrict the operation of mobile terminal devices stolen in any country of the region, creating a regional front to implement ...

Wednesday 30 May, 2012 | Uncategorized

GSMA is willing to engage and dialogue with regulators, manufacturers and network operators to find solutions to the handset theft problem that can be universally applied. It is important that any measures to combat handset theft must be effective, efficient and cost ...