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March 09, 2012

Sybase 365 Survey Says Mobile Operators Want More LTE in Your Hands

At one time or another, many of us have likely considered our Internet connection, be it the one in our homes, or the one on our phones — or even both in more than a few cases — and wished that we could get a better connection. As it turns out, mobile operators the world around are making that exact same wish, but they're having problems doing so, at least according to the results of a recent survey staged by Sybase 365 out at the recently concluded Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona.

The results from the Sybase 365 survey offer a few surprises, as well as a few very clear obvious generalities, and the results combined make for a very interesting overall picture. For instance, 81 percent of operators want to provide LTE to their customers mainly for the sake of better and richer offerings to same. Of that 81 percent, 47 percent of them want it for better multimedia capabilities, while 17 percent want it for better overall quality of service, and a similar 17 percent like the always-on connectivity that LTE can offer.

As for what's holding mobile providers back from offering more LTE, the biggest issue was one of spectrum and frequency interoperability. Meanwhile, large numbers also pointed to lack of compatible handsets, as well as lack of industry standards and, of all things, the perception that mobile operators aren't making LTE a priority due to the “lack of a clear business case”.

It's a good picture for those of us out there who wish our connections were a bit more robust. Basically, the mobile providers want to get more of it into our hands, they're just having a tough time getting the infrastructure together. And as is generally the case with something like this, the infrastructure is the toughest thing to actually get together, because it requires all the going out and finding land and building extremely large, complex and expensive structures on said land parts of the enterprise.

Still though, with the obvious prize of a whole lot of potential customers looking for bigger and better connections that are always on and ready to go, it's not a surprise that the networks' biggest problem would simply be getting all the connections they'd like to get out into the field and available for purchase.






Edited by Jennifer Russell


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