Google has reported a 61% rise in its first quarter profits of US$2.89 billion, on a 24% rise in revenues to US$10.65 billion. The rise in revenues was despite a 12% decline in the cost per click of adverts placed on its websites, and those of advertising partners (which includes this website). “Google had another … Read more
H-ARQ Mechanism in DL 1. The Transport block is transmitted to the UE on the PDSCH. 2. The UE receives it but it is erroneous. The TB is stored in a buffer. 3. The UE transmits directly a NACK concerning the erroneous block on the PUCCH. One HARQ entity in the UE and the e-UTRANMade … Read more
India’s telecoms regulator has ordered two mobile networks, Etisalat DB and STel to restart their mothballed networks within three days. The two companies lost their licenses when the Supreme Court cancelled the 2008 GSM license allocation, and announced that they would close their services as a result. However, the TRAI has told them to keep … Read more
Nokia has issued a warning that its Devices & Services division will post a financial loss for the first-quarter of this year. Nokia says that during the first quarter 2012, multiple factors negatively affected its Devices & Services business to a greater extent than previously expected. The company said that competitive industry dynamics, negatively affected … Read more
India’s Bharti Airtel says that it has launched the country’s first commercial LTE service in Kolkata. Airtel’s 4G network was launched by Mr. Kapil Sibal, Hon’ble Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India. Commenting on the launch, Mr. Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman and Managing Director, Bharti Airtel said, “We are delighted to now … Read more
Nokia Siemens Networks says that it has won a LTE rollout contract from Singapore’s StarHub, which will be refarming its 1800MHz GSM band to carry LTE services. The first phase of StarHub’s LTE network is expected to go live by the end of 2012, covering key business areas. As part of the contract, Nokia Siemens … Read more
New Zealand’s Prime Minister was warned in 2010 by the country’s security authorities that its broadband infrastructure could be compromised if network rollout contracts were awarded to China’s Huawei. The opposition politician, Clare Curran made the claim in Parliament earlier this week. Huawei has been banned from tendering for a nationwide broadband network in … Read more
The American Civil Liberties Union this weekend released the results of public records requests filed last August to hundreds of local police departments across the country, asking them about their policies, practices, and procedures for tracking cell phone records. As The New York Times reported on Sunday, the records show that the practice of … Read more
China’s Huawei and ZTE are expected to collectively ship 95-100 million smartphones in 2012, giving the two companies a combined global marketshare of 15%, according to Taiwan based DigiTimes. According to Gartner statistics, Huawei shipped 16 million smartphones in 2011, and ZTE scored 11 million. Citing Taiwan-based handset component suppliers, the publication reported that … Read more
Samsung Electronics has announced plans to invest US$7 billion in a semiconductor factory in China, that will focus on chips for mobile devices and music players, the company confirmed in a stock market filing. The investment will be staged over several years, with an initial US$2.3 billion going on a factory in Xi’an, the … Read more