Stories about: International Telecommunication Union

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    LTE-Advanced is the future, but no rocket ship 26/01/2012 12:55:00

    The 4G network standards approved last week by the ITU may improve the mobile data experience soon, even if consumers don't actually see the 100M bps mobile speed for which they were designed.
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    ITU agrees on green IT measurement standards 29/09/2011 06:50:25

    The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has reached an agreement on ways to measure the impact of IT systems on the environment, in an effort to standardize the widely varying estimates now in use, the group said Wednesday.
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    LightSquared says GPS makers ignored filtering rules 12/08/2011 09:25:05

    GPS vendors have not complied with a 2008 Department of Defense recommendation that called for much better filtering of signals from adjacent spectrum bands, mobile startup LightSquared told the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Thursday.
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    G.hn home-network backers plan tests next week 18/05/2011 06:43:36

    The G.hn technology for wired residential networks should be a step closer to consumers' homes after interoperability tests taking place next week.
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    IEEE approves next WiMax standard 01/04/2011 11:20:44

    The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has approved IEEE 802.16m, the standard for the next generation of WiMax, which may deliver downstream speeds of more than 300M bps (bits per second).
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    ITU sends satellite phones to Japan 17/03/2011 22:35:52

    The International Telecommunication Union is sending satellite phones to Japan to help rescue work and to reconnect communities cut off by last Friday's earthquake.
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    ITU, IETF push dueling standards on MPLS features 02/03/2011 12:55:29

    The Internet Engineering Task Force is slamming a decision by the International Telecommunication Union to pursue its own standard for troubleshooting and fault detection in service-provider networks.
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    LTE-Advanced mobile standard gets go-ahead from industry 25/02/2011 19:19:54

    Major handset makers meeting on Friday in Taipei gave their nod to a final version of the world's first advanced LTE mobile data standard, which will raise transfer speeds to 1Gbps.
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    Five things you need to know about LTE 25/02/2011 04:17:00

    1. It really is fast. TeliaSonera, the Swedish carrier that in 2009 launched the first major commercial long-term evolution (LTE) service, delivered an average downstream speed of 33.4Mbps in informal tests last year. Verizon Wireless, which is using narrower spectrum bands, estimates that even on a fully loaded network, individual subscribers will get between 5Mbps and 12Mbps downstream and about 2Mbps to 5Mbps upstream.
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    Mobile heavyweights seek to finalize 1Gbps mobile standard 21/02/2011 21:40:21

    The world's top handset makers are meeting this week to finalize a version of an advanced mobile communication standard that would raise data transfer speeds to 1Gbps, an event organizer said on Monday.
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    ITU wants government help to avoid mobile bottleneck 15/02/2011 03:49:34

    Whitespace devices, LTE, femtocells, automatic Wi-Fi handover, optimized backhaul networks: wireless operators are already deploying a wide range of techniques to speed the flow of data to our smartphones, and equipment manufacturers are demonstrating many more at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week.
 
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