Last week it was announced that in the US, as of February, the iPhone exclusivity deal with network provider AT&T will end and the iPhone will be made available through Verizon, the second largest American network.
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Last week, I was in Amsterdam as a speaker/analyst at the LTE world series in Amsterdam which is a top Telecoms conference especially for the Operator community. LTE is about ‘Beyond 3G’ networks and that’s an area with lots of standardization discussions (see here and here). At Amsterdam, there were two relevant themes for TalkStandards. I will cover one here (Voice standardization in 4G networks) and I will create a separate post for the other (IPR issues for 4G networks).

There is an informal joke in Telecoms circles which goes like this: When we created 3G we forgot about data, when we created 4G we forgot about voice!

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I recently wrote a brief comment on Chinese ICT standardization (http://www.talkstandards.com/?p=1293). The political involvement touched upon in that article is particularly evident in the telecom area as this article tries to explain.
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I recently wrote a brief comment on Chinese ICT standardization (http://www.talkstandards.com/?p=1293). The political involvement touched upon in that article is particularly evident in the telecom area as this article tries to explain.
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