Broadband in Brazil will require U$$ 100. billion over the next 10 years

Telecommunications companies are required investment estimate of $ 100 billion over the next 10 years, to grant Brazil a level of internet coverage consistent with what currently exists in developed countries.
The amount is part of a study commissioned by the telcos and also recognized the need for public funds, tax relief and allowances so that the objective is reached. And yet, most Brazilians could get access to the network only through telecentres or Internet cafes.
In the "no levers, or with the natural development of the market, internet penetration in the country would jump over the next decade, the current 21 accesses per 100 inhabitants for 45 - considering there both fixed and mobile connections. With incentives, the index over the same period, would reach 74 per 100.
The relationship of these incentives included traditional calls from telcos, such as reducing the tax burden, the release of new spectrum bands - notably the 700 MHz and 2.5 GHz - new licenses and services. And, as already anticipated the SindiTelebrasil, advocates a "regulatory flexibility" and lower prices of the grants.
The list of "levers" also includes the direct participation of public resources, both in financial shape - with direct subsidies to particular groups or financing of access terminals and the use of sector funds - such as the use of infrastructure, ie access to private companies, for example, the fiber optic backbone that will be used in Telebras National Broadband Plan.
But even with increased investment and intense use of public incentives to telecom perspective is that something like a quarter of Brazilians continue without internet connection, except through public places, such as telecentres, Internet cafes or by that ensure collective access to low prices.
The government, whom the study is addressed, to accept the assumptions and discuss some proposals there included. But, according to Communications Minister Paulo Bernardo, companies should not rely on public resources, especially when there's still a great performance space has not been occupied by private enterprise.
"The market can not simply look to the government and ask for money because we will not give. At some point we may have to discuss some form of subsidy or measures of universal coverage, but if the market perceives itself that can meet 75% can not be satisfied by 25%. Need to change the policy of charging very few attend, "said the minister.
Within the telecommunications industry itself to the study commissioned LCA has been viewed with some caution. Executives at TIM, for example, questioned the presentation of a work that at no time deepens issues concerning infrastructure, when one of the main barriers to Internet market is due to the large concentration of networks in the hands of a few companies.
In fact, despite the fixed telephony operators control most of the data infrastructure of the country, the study makes no mention of sharing these networks as a way to increase competition and therefore the offer. In fact, the only mention of sharing occurs in the other direction, ie the use of public networks for private companies.

Broadband: Operators require different rules for custormers from different profiles

Even without a definition in the negotiations between the Ministry of Communications and utilities on new telephony universalization targets - in addition to commitments on the provision of broadband - the telcos are going to present a new proposal to the government about the expansion of Internet usage in the country .

This proposal will be based on a study being done at the request of businesses, by consultancy and LCA, according to executive director Sinditelebrasil, Eduardo Levy, will be presented in June. The month marks both the conclusion of the LCA study and the implementation of the annual meeting of the Panel Telebrasil telcos, which this year will be in Brasilia.

Judging by the presentation of Levy in a hearing on Tuesday, 10 / 5, the Chamber of Deputies, the operators will return to themes dear to the sector, such as reduced taxes, increased availability of spectrum licenses and new services. But they must also touch on a controversial point: the Internet offers various different "types" of consumers.

"We want goals consistent with the profile of consumers, with different regulations for different demands," said executive director Sinditelebrasil. That means offering different packages - depending on the capacity of each client - not a basic package of 1Mbps the ceiling of $ 35, as the government wants. "If we want the same speed to any customer for any application, it will cost," he added.

Moreover, the evaluation of telcos is that the supply of services can be divided into three groups. In one, the demand and the ability to fund the service makes the market respond naturally. Already a buffer zone requires incentives for investment. And finally, a group that needs subsidies to be financed with the funds industry.

The government, in turn, returned to vigorously defend them more meaningful participation of the state as a promoter of competition in the market. Less reticent than in recent public appearances, the Ministry of Communications held the Union's need for investment in networks.

"The National Plan for Broadband is infrastructure, regulation and production and technological policy. In part of the infrastructure we need to invest $ 7 billion in backhaul to cover all cities with more than 30 000 inhabitants in the next four years. The production policy is to support local technology and regulation have different priorities, "said Secretary of Telecommunications, Minicom, Nelson Fujimoto.

These priorities were listed by the Minister Paulo Bernardo in a letter delivered to the FCC advisers during a meeting at the agency last week. According to Fujimoto, the government's expectation is that at least all the regulations mentioned come into public consultation later this year.

The list contains the general plans and goals for Universal Race (3 PGMU and PGMC) - the latter with measures relating to the unbundling and sharing of networks - and the regulation of EILD table of values ​​(ie, the wholesale network), the auctions for the bands 2.5 GHz and 3.5 GHz, the new regulation of cable TV regulation and review of the CV, which is a component of cost of using the telephone and has a direct impact on the VU-M, the rate of interconnection with mobile telephony. This item, by the way, was an explicit request of the Hi in the negotiations with Minicom.

Rounding out the list of priorities of quality regulations Communications Service (WCS), conflict resolution and to encourage research, development and innovation in telecommunications. And finally, the review of public money by the law of the Operation of Telecommunications Services and the Law of Exploration Satellite (PPDESS) to reduce the current £ 9000 the amount to be paid for permits to operators of smaller SCM coverage .

Different rules for customers from different profiles are very important. However, all rules for all customers shall provide QoS for customers ( bandwidth, availability, response time, etc)

Siemens Nokia GNOC has the first customer on Brazil: NEXTEL

Nokia Siemens Networks have enabled the operations in this Tuesday, 31/05, Global Network Operations Center (GNOC), located in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Nextel is the first carrier to be served by the GNOC to centralize its network operations. Nokia Siemens Networks currently manages the operations of multi network providers to NII Holdings, Nextel's headquarters in five countries.
Last year, the NII has signed a contract for outsourcing of management services to Nokia Siemens Networks. This was the first such contract in Latin America and is a major Nokia Siemens Networks in the region, involving multiple vendors and different countries. The contract provides for the centralization and consolidation of network operations of NII in five Latin American countries from Brazil GNOC the third quarter of 2011.
The unit of São Paulo has the potential to meet all the operators in the Americas zone. In its initial phase, the plant of 1400 m² will allocate 193 professionals and has the capacity to house up to 350 specialists in the future. NII has signed a contract for outsourcing of management services to Nokia Siemens Networks.
In addition to managing the technology and 3G iDEN, Nextel ®, the GNOC will support and transport the IP network and data services and value-added (VAS) from multiple vendors. The migration and centralization of network operations in all five countries will be completed by July this year. The GNOC of Brazil is part of a network of three other multi GNOCs technology - two in India and one in Portugal, who manage networks of multi suppliers.

Anatel revisa padrão de qualidade da internet 3G, Novas oportunidades a vista

A quantidade de reclamações junto a Anatel acerca dos serviços de Internet Móvel, motivou a agência a revisar os parâmetros de qualidade do serviço oferecido. A principal reclamação dos usuários refere-se a falta de conectividade. Dessa maneira, temos agora como parâmetros de qualidade de serviço:
Taxa de conexão ao acesso banda larga: avalia a disponibilidade do serviço, verificando se as tentativas de acesso à internet são estabelecidos com sucesso. A meta proposta é uma taxa de 98% de sucesso na conexão.
Taxa de queda do acesso banda larga: o indicador pretende avaliar se, uma vez estabelecida a conexão, ela se mantém ao longo do tempo. O patamar mínimo de estabilidade da rede. A meta proposta é uma taxa de 5% aceitáveis de queda de conexão.
Garantia de velocidade contratada: garante patamares mínimos para que a velocidade ofertada no serviço seja cumprida. Segundo a proposta da Anatel, a garantia de apenas 10% de velocidade mínima, conforme consta em muitos contratos firmados pelas operadoras, é inadimissível. A meta proposta é uma garantia de velocidade contratada de 50%. A Anatel estuda a garantia de 30% da velocidade nos horários de pico e de 50% nos de menor tráfego de dados.
Além desses indicadores, a agência propõe outros, a longo prazo, como a garantia de investimentos para a ampliação da rede, treinamento e desempenho econômico – para assim evitar degradações futuras na qualidade e desempenho das prestadoras. Há ainda outros indicadores, ligados à avaliação da qualidade de prestação do serviço

Com esses novos parâmetros as operadoras de serviços de telecomunicações terão de investir mais em tecnologia e na sua infraestrutura. Ao mesmo tempo, acredito que parâmetros mais rigorosos também favorecem o desenvolvimento de novos serviços voltados para mobilidade corporativa e também para m-commerce, uma vez que diretamente implica na adoção de equipamentos mais robustos e também em maior oferta de banda.

Alvarion passa a investir em LTE

Uma das empresas fundadoras do Wimax Forum, sendo uma das primeiras a oferecer ao mercado equipamentos 802.16d, está investindo em LTE como tecnologia para 4G. Um de seus objetivos é facilitar a integração entre essas duas tecnologias de redes sem fio de banda larga.

fonte: http://www.telecoms.com/21568/wimax-industry-founder-backs-td-lte/

http://www.cpqd.com.br/imprensa-e-eventos/the-news/4881-cpqd-trabalha-para-desenvolver-patentes-em-lte.html

O Brasil poderá ter patentes relacionadas a redes LTE (Long Term Evolution) no futuro. O CPqD iniciou este ano as pesquisas para desenvolver soluções para essa tecnologia, em um desmembramento do projeto começado há mais tempo com outros padrões de comunicação sem fio, como WiMAX e Wi-Mesh. O parceiro industrial é a WxBR e as pesquisas contam com verbas do Funttel e ajuda da Finep

fonte: http://www.cpqd.com.br/imprensa-e-eventos/the-news/4881-cpqd-trabalha-para-desenvolver-patentes-em-lte.html
http://www.cpqd.com.br/imprensa-e-eventos/the-news/4881-cpqd-trabalha-para-desenvolver-patentes-em-lte.html

LTE tem investimentos de 110 operadoras móveis em 48 países

A Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA Association), entidade que reúne os fabricantes de aparelhos GSM/HSPA e LTE, liberou seu mais recente estudo sobre o crescimento do LTE (Long Term Evolution) que revela que agora são 110 operadoras móveis em 48 países com investimento na adoção do LTE.
Oitenta operadoras de 33 países já assumiram compromissos firmes para implantar suas redes LTE. Há dois meses, este número era de 64 operadoras. As redes LTE já estão sendo instaladas ou planejadas na Armênia, Austrália, Áustria, Bahrain, Brasil, Canadá, China, Dinamarca, Estônia, Finlândia, França, Alemanha, Hong Kong, Irlanda, Itália, Japão, Jordânia, Letônia, Holanda, Nova Zelândia, Noruega, Filipinas, Portugal, Rússia, Arábia Saudita, Singapura, África do Sul, Coréia do Sul, Suécia, Taiwan, Emirados Árabes Unidos, Estados Unidos e Uzbequistão.

Fonte: http://www.toolkit.com.br/2010/06/lte-tem-investimentos-de-110-operadoras-moveis-em-48-paises/

Two LTE Operators Announce Testing Protocols

There has been a lot of LTE activity going on recently and its happening around the world. Clear Mobitel began LTE trials in Cornwall, United Kingdom. Optus, an Australian operator recently released its findings from the first round of LTE test network.
Clear Mobitel will use space in the 800MHz frequency range around the area of Caradon Hill. It’s expected that 300 people will take part in the first phase of the project. The company will focus on testing LTE as a viable high speed wireelss broadband solution for the rural consumer. Clear Mobitel purchased the spectrum space after the turn of analogue TV broadcasting in April 2009.

fonte: http://www.goinglte.com/two-lte-operators-announce-testing-protocols-1497/

LTE vx Wimax: Uma Batalha que ainda não acabou, pelo menos lá fora

Pois é, a batalha LTE vs Wimax pela supremacia do mercado 4G está longe acabar lá fora. Enquanto que no Brasil, não temos nada concreto, o Wimax 2.0 está mostrando suas armas para disputar com o LTE. Mais um round dessa batalha transcrevo abaixo

 

LTE Who? WiMAX Players Team to Enable 300Mbps

Tara Seals
04/12/2010

Leading WiMAX silicon suppliers, equipment makers and research organizations have announced a new initiative to accelerate the commercialization of the WiMAX 2 802.16m standard, which supports data rates of more than 300Mbps. As a bonus, WiMAX 2 systems will offer lower latency and increased VoIP capacity.
The initiative targets interoperability of this next release of WiMAX technology, which builds upon 802.16e by adding new capabilities while maintaining backward compatibility.
The performance gains will enable WiMAX operators to keep up with the explosion in demand for rich, multimedia mobile applications and devices which increasingly require high speed, on-the-go connectivity, said the WiMAX 2 Collaboration Initiative, or WCI. The new group includes WiMAX vendors Alvarion, Beceem, GCT Semiconductor, Intel, Motorola, Samsung, Sequans, XRONet and ZTE, as well as the Taiwanese research organization, ITRI.
The 802.16m air interface standard definition is expected to be completed in the second half of 2010.
As 4G begins to be built out, the WCI says that it is imperative to evolve the industry model to create a better value chain for service providers. The WiMAX industry is seeing a nonlinear shift in mobile broadband usage models – similar in magnitude to that experienced when people went from dialup to broadband. Consumers on some WiMAX networks are apparently consuming 7-10 GB of data per month.
“The wireless industry is convinced that the growing volume of data consumers are eating up is a bad thing,” said Mike Sievert, COO at Clearwire. “But for us, our spectrum position gives us tremendous capacity and the ability to meet the explosive demand for mobile broadband. Today our CLEAR mobile customers are using an average of more than 7GB of data per month on our network. And while other companies are considering how to curtail usage, we simply say to our customers, here’s the Internet: the world in the palm of your hand – enjoy it.”
With the goal of supporting exponential data usage, the group will work closely with the WiMAX Forum to accelerate the implementation of interoperable system profiles for WiMAX 2 equipment and devices with the goal of improving the economics of mobile broadband.
The objectives of the group include:

• Technology collaboration and joint performance benchmarking
• Joint testing of 4G applications over WiMAX 2 solutions
• Early network level interoperability testing
• Plugfests to prepare for WiMAX Forum certification

The group will issue detailed milestones and delivery schedules within the next three to six months with the goal to support the WiMAX Forum’s readiness to certify commercial products by late 2011.

Intel, Motorola, Samsung team-up for WiMAX 2

TAIPEI, TAIWAN: Leading WiMAX vendors such as Alvarion, Beceem, GCT Semiconductor, Intel, Motorola, Samsung, Sequans, XRONet and ZTE as well as the Taiwanese research organization, ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute) , have launched the WiMAX 2 Collaboration Initiative (WCI).
This is to accelerate interoperability of the next release of WiMAX technology, WiMAX 2, based upon the IEEE 802.16m standard.

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802.16m builds upon 802.16e by adding new capabilities while maintaining backward compatibility. It meets the International Telecommunications Union requirements for 4G or “IMT-Advanced,” delivering higher system capacity – peak rates of more than 300 Mbps – lower latency and increased VoIP capacity.
The 802.16m air interface standard definition began in 2006 in the IEEE as a follow-on to 802.16e, and is expected to be completed in the 2nd half of 2010. 

fonte: http://www.ciol.com/Technology/Networking/News-Reports/Intel-Motorola-Samsung-team-up-for-WiMAX-2/134773/0/