Posts Tagged ‘standards war’

The Next Mobile Frontier – Heading for Another Standards War?

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

Next week the 3GPP will host the LTE world summit in the Netherlands. The conference focuses on the 3GPP’s (3rd Generation Partnership Project) LTE (Long Term Evolution) standard for next generation mobile telecommunications networks. LTE is the main competitor to the WiMAX standard, both of which are branded as 4G mobile network standards, and is capable of speeds up to 100Mbit/s downloads and 50Mbits/s uploads wirelessly.
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An interesting lesson from the HD video standards-war

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

The rivalry between HD DVD and Blu-ray has interesting similarities but also important differences to the historical standards-war between VHS and Betamax. Interesting lessons can be learned from these recent developments.
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