Tag Archives: NEP

SDP World Summit and Broadband World Forum

We’re reaching an interesting stage in operators’ attempts to remain relevant to customers beyond voice and internet access, which still remains a nice business, yet commoditization continues, albeit at a slower pace than most have predicted.  The slow pace shows the strength of state-granted duopolies / oligopolies.  Though we’re seeing a mounting chorus in the […]

Mobile Broadband: Backhaul’s the issue not the air interface

This old weblog article from 2008 discusses the cost structure of a typical mobile operator, and I show below the structure graphically.  The key figure is transport costs (backhaul) are roughly 7% of total costs back in 2008.  Some operators have seen that jump to over 15%-20% of total costs in under 2 years.  The […]

The Stranded Service Provider

OpenCloud ran a great panel discussion event last week entitled “The Stranded Service Provider,” accompanied by a white paper that’s available on their website. On the panel were myself and: Tereza Borges, head of NSN’s next gen applications Keith Dyer, Editor of Mobile Europe John Logsdon, MD of NetDev Marlon Bowser, MD of HTK Kris […]

An Independent Review of SAE (System Architecture Evolution, aka 4G Core or Evolved Packet System (EPS)): A view on the emerging core network

This article follows on from a previous article that reviewed LTE (Long Term Evolution, also know as 4G).  Several people asked why I had not included a fuller discussion on the 4G core in that article.  It is because LTE is an access technology; my focus of the article was on the access where there […]