Some interesting details have filtered out about how AT&T upgraded its network in Austin, Texas, to support the masses at the South by Southwest event. This is no small requirement: if AT&T were to have mucked up 3G access at the show, thousands of blogs and tweets would have rained hellfire down on them day after day. So what exactly did AT&T do in Austin? How unique was it? And can it be replicated, or are such changes already on the drawing board, elsewhere on its network?
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TeliaSonera’s LTE milestone: Peak network speeds top 100 Mb/s
Sweden’s TeliaSonera said today its LTE network in Stockholm will soon be upgraded to reach “practical” speeds of 80 Mb/s and up to the highest “theoretical” speed possible of 100 Mb/s. With 3G networks topping out in the single digits, and even the proposed speeds of many 4G networks still hovering in the teens, Telia’s play at delivering true broadband wireless is worth noting. (more…)
ABI: 2009 wasn’t quite so dire for wireless vendors
From the way the vendors talked in last year’s earnings calls, you’d get the impression that 2009 was one of the most horrible years for the telecom infrastructure market. But ABI Research said it wasn’t as bad as the industry made it out to be. Rather than decline as much 10% to 12% as many analysts estimated, the equipment market saw a surge in the second half of the year, said Aditya Kaul, practice director for ABI. (more…)