Written by Diana Goovaerts, US Editor at Mobile World Live.
A panel of equipment vendors noted regional US operators can use VoLTE technology to boost spectral efficiency and recycle old voice spectrum for LTE to meet growing capacity needs, but must first work through technical hurdles related to location-based services.
We are living on the edge of a technological revolution—one that will alter how we live, communicate, and conduct business forever. While we’ve felt disruption before, like the move from analog to digital, the first smartphone, or the launch of the app store, this time of change is distinctive.
Advances in technology can often be a great leveller in industries, and the telecoms industry is no exception. The availability of new technologies in various markets has changed the expectations of consumers and businesses irrevocably.
When the mobile world meets next month in Barcelona to discuss how everything is mobile, Interop Technologies and our technology experts will be discussing how everything can be virtualized as well as we exhibit in Hall 1 Stand 1C02 at Mobile World Congress February 22-25.
As VoLTE announcement news and RCS launch chatter become more frequent in the headlines, one must look at deployment time as a key catalyst to accelerating the momentum even further. The recent announcements from Telefonica and Telenor, as well as the T-Mobile news a few weeks back are proof that the tide of advanced IP service adoption is changing, which is good news for the industry.
