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It is interesting to compare the Australian approach to a national broadband network with the UK’s apparently strategy-free approach, if only because the projected costs are within spitting distance of each other, give or take a few billion pounds.

Analysys Mason’s original estimate for a national point to point fibre to the premises (FTTP) network for the entire UK was £28.8bn; for a GPON-based FTTP service, £24.6bn; for a GPON FTTP network with a 93% population coverage rate, about £19bn.

Following the release of the business plan for the Australian government-owned NBN Company this week, NBN now plans to spend AU$37.4bn (£25.2bn) to build a wholesale-only, open-access, fixed-line broadband network over 10 years, ending in June 2021. This is six months later and 3.9% more expensive than originally planned.
NBN will deliver a GPON-based FTTP service to 93% of the population or some 12 million of 13 million-odd homes…

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Umts Lte: Network, Services, Technologies, And Operation – Lawrence Harte

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This book explains the basic components, technologies used, and operation of UMTS LTE systems. You will discover why mobile telephone service providers are upgrading their 2nd and 3rd generation digital mobile systems to more efficient and feature rich UMTS LTE systems.

Discover the key features that UMTS LTE systems provide that go beyond the capabilities of existing 2G and 3G mobile systems such as ultra high-speed Internet (100 Mbps+), television (multicast video), and low latency services (packet voice). Explained are the physical and logical radio channel structures of the UMTS LTE systems along with the basic frame and slot structures.

Described are the fundamental capabilities and operation of the UMTS LTE radio channel including channel coding, modulation types, low-latency transmission and how transmission reliability is improved using MIMO technology.

You will discover the key functional sections of UMTS LTE networks and how they communicate with each other. Learn how and why UMTS LTE systems separate control channels from user data channels. Learn how UMTS LTE systems can co-exist and interoperate with existing mobile systems which simplify the migration plan from less efficient mobile systems to more cost effective and capable UMTS LTE systems.

Learn how spatial division multiple access (SDMA) can be used by UMTS LTE systems to provide dramatic increases in system capacity. The evolution of 3G systems into UMTS LTE systems explained. Some of the most important topics featured in this book are:

• How UMTS LTE systems operate ? UMTS LTE voice, data, and multimedia services ? The types of UMTS LTE products and their uses ? The UMTS LTE radio channel structure ? The types of physical and logical channels ? UMTS LTE network components and interfaces ? Evolved multimedia broadcast multicast services (E-MBMS)
• Location based services (LBS)  IP multimedia subsystem (IMS)  UMTS LTE technology evolution into 4GWords: 100 network, access high speed internet, and operation, high speed access internet, high speed internet access, internet access high speed, internet high speed access, network radio, radio channel, radio network, services engineering, services technology, speed internet access, technology services, voice radioAuthor: Harte, Lawrence

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk90hNFXzdg – Gepubliceerd op 12 aug 2012 door jonilyond214

The Elements Of The Mobile User Experience

Mobile users and mobile usage are growing. With more users doing more on mobile, the spotlight is on how to improve the individual elements that together create the mobile user experience.

The mobile user experience encompasses the user’s perceptions and feelings before, during and after their interaction with your mobile presence — be it through a browser or an app — using a mobile device that could lie anywhere on the continuum from low-end feature phone to high-definition tablet.

Creating mobile user experiences that delight users forces us to rethink a lot of what we have taken for granted so far with desktop design. It is complicated in part by mobile-specific considerations that go hand in hand with small screens, wide variations in device features, constraints in usage and connectivity, and the hard-to-identify-but-ever-changing mobile context.

Dissecting the mobile user experience into its key components gives us a conceptual framework for building and evaluating good mobile experiences, within the context of a user-centered approach to designing for mobile ¹. These components shape the mobile user experience — including functionality, context, user input, content and marketing, among others.

 

The relevance of these elements will change depending on the type of device (feature phone versus smartphone versus tablet) and the presentation interface (app versus Web). This article briefly describes each of these elements and elaborates on each with selected guidelines.

Functionality

This has to do with tools and features that enable users to complete tasks and achieve their goals.

Guidelines

• Prioritize and present core features from other channels that have especial relevance in a mobile environment. For an airline, this includes flight statuses and flight check-ins. For cosmetic chain Sephora, it includes supporting in-store shopping via easy access to product reviews on mobile devices.
• Offer relevant mobile-only functionality (like barcode scanning and image recognition), and enhance functionality using the capabilities of mobile devices where possible to engage and delight users. Old Navy’s app serves up surprise games or savings when users snap the logo in a store.
• Ensure that fundamental features and content are optimized for mobile. For example, make sure the store locator shows the nearest stores based on the device’s location, and make the phone numbers click-to-call.
• Include features that are relevant to the business category. For retail websites and apps, this would include product search, order status and shopping cart.
• Offer key capabilities across all channels. Users who sign in should see their personalized settings, irrespective of the device or channel being used. If certain functionality is not offered on mobile, then direct users to the appropriate channel, as TripIt does to set up a personal network.

 

Source: http://mobile.smashingmagazine.com/2012/07/12/elements-mobile-user-experience/?goback=.gde_3879579_member_135687120 – By Lyndon Cerejo- July 12th, 2012

Data Monday: Making the Mobile Transition

As more companies see their audiences shift to mobile or begin as mobile-only users, they don’t have a lot of time to make the transition to mobile themselves. Little wonder that mobile has become top of mind for most Internet companies. Here’s how a few of them are handling the transition.

Facebook

102 million people accessed Facebook solely from mobile in June, a massive 23% increase over the 83 million mobile-only users in March. 18.7% of its 543 million monthly mobile users don’t even visit its desktop site. That means if it can’t make its mobile advertising generate a lot more money within the next year, revenue could plummet.

eBay

eBay’s mobile shoppers and mobile payers are 3 to 4 times more valuable than Web only. Mobile was a major contributor to eBay’s Q2 growth with 600,000 new customers making their first purchase through eBay’s mobile apps. The company is now expecting eBay and PayPal mobile to each transact $10 billion in volume this year. eBay’s CEO John Donahoe, called it “a staggering surge” in mobile commerce that did not exist just a few years ago.

Twitter

The majority of Twitter users are mobile and more active than their desktop counterparts. Dick Costolo, Twitter’s chief executive, says he now sees Twitter’s website as an “entry ramp” guiding users to the “core” Twitter mobile app. Mobile revenue for Twitter on some days is greater than non-mobile.

Zynga

The number of people who play Zynga’s games on mobile devices is growing three times faster than the number of those who play on the Web. People using their phones or other mobile devices often are what Zynga calls “casual players” who tend to spend less money. Figuring out how to make money from them is more important than ever.

Yelp

10% of Yelp’s monthly uniques access the service on mobile but account for a disproportionate 40% of Yelp’s search query volume. On weekends, mobile searches actually outweigh desktop searches. Yelp runs ads on the mobile web, and those ads see a higher clickthrough rate than their desktop counterparts. That makes the company “very confident” that it can basically transfer its monetization to mobile. (source)

Source: http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1607 –  by Luke Wroblewski August 12, 2012