Sunsetting 2G/3G – entering the corridor
08 October 2024
As Asian nations increasingly look to sunset older mobile generations in favour of more efficient 4G/5G technology, we explore the opportunities, challenge, and likely outlook…
Much of the world is currently exploring the sunsetting of older mobile generations – 2G and 3G – to open up additional spectrum for 4G and 5G, which are much more spectrum efficient.
Find out more Inflection for APAC’s IFC market
08 October 2024
Vaibhav Magow, Vice President, International Division, Hughes Network Systems
In-flight connectivity (IFC) remains rare on Asian-Pacific airlines primarily due to cost. The initial investment in IFC technology can be significant, and many Asian-Pacific airlines might be hesitant to make this substantial financial commitment, especially if they perceive the demand for such services as not yet critical.
Beyond that, implementing IFC requires advanced technology and substantial logistical efforts, including downtime for aircraft installation. Airlines need to devote resources to placing their aircraft into maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) facilities to perform the upgrades.
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Setting a new standard for network intelligence
08 October 2024
Andrew Schafer, CEO, PowerX
Earlier this year, we reported on the transformative results of a year-long strategic collaboration with Phil-Tower Consortium Inc. (PhilTower). The Philippines’ leading tower company appointed us in 2023 and has since extended the project from an initial 1,350 sites to 3,500 sites. PhilTower was eager to adopt innovative new technologies to digitise their infrastructure from day one and drive significant savings on capital expenditure (CapEx) and operational expenditure (OpEx), enhance operational efficiencies, and achieve significant cuts in energy consumption across the entire PhilTower network. We were ready to help achieve these ambitious goals.
Find out more Looking to the new capabilities of 5G for critical communications
08 October 2024
Kevin Graham, TCCA CEO
TCCA promotes the use of standardised technologies to deliver mission-critical communication systems that are secure, available, resilient, interoperable and, ultimately, trusted. TCCA has driven the TETRA standard and market, and also supports other standardised narrowband technologies. With the establishment of its Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) some 14 years ago, TCCA recognised the need to deploy 3GPP mobile broadband critical communications, which in many cases will complement or replace narrowband networks.
We are now in the 5G era, and with 5G rollouts advancing, the opportunities to further enhance critical communications are becoming clear. 5G is an ever-evolving technology with new features still being added. For example, network slicing is designed to allocate specific required resources to meet the requirements of different user groups, while multi-access edge computing (MEC) servers can enable low latency applications by moving processing closer to the edge.
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