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Russia gets first shot at 3.9G wireless broadband system...

Visit Kyocera's site: http://global.kyocera.com/prdct/telecom/office/iburst/news/071115r.html

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Kyocera’s iBurst™ Certified as First 3.9G Wireless Broadband System in Russia




15 November,2007


KYOTO, Japan -- (November 15, 2007) -- Kyocera Corporation (President: Makoto Kawamura) announced today that iBurst, its 3.9G wireless broadband system, has been granted a Certificate of Conformance by the Russian Certification Authority, ANO ”OSSET,” effective September 14, 2007 (Registration No. OC-2-PD-0143).

The Certification declares that iBurst equipment, standardized as HC-SDMA by ANSI/T1P1, complies with the “Application rules for radio access equipment for wireless transfer of data within the range from 30MHz to 66GHz,” as prescribed by the Russian Ministry of Information and Communication.

Prior to this certification, wireless access equipment had been granted the frequency band of 1787.5MHz to 1802.5MHz by the Russian State Frequency Management Commission (SFMC), effective October 2006 (Registration No. 06-17-03-001).

The iBurst base station is classified as 3.9G equipment due to its high spectrum efficiency, which reaches a maximum of 7.3bps/Hz,* as compared to 0.7 to 2.0bps/Hz* for 3.5G systems such as HSDPA. The iBurst system requires a frequency band of 5MHz for the total throughput of 32 Mbps; therefore, a maximum of three iBurst service operators can co-exist in each service area using the 15MHz band from 1787.5MHz to 1802.5 in Russia. As a result, iBurst offers a unique mobile solution for Russia’s expanding broadband market, which had 7.5 million users as of July 2007.
 
I think we could have that tomorrow if ICASA pulled their finger out their bums.
 
Ekhaatvensters said:
Afaik it was being trialed in SA first seeing as we have the biggest iBurst network. It should reach us around the same time then, March 2008. I see some delays though. :D
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I would have expected Australia to have a larger iBurst network compared to SA, do you have a link to go with that?
 
Assuming that they are not lying it would be interesting to know just how many of those 50k users are getting a stable speed 1mbps, also what % of the users are happy/unhappy with the SA companies service.:rolleyes:
 
That would be interesting, however what would be more interesting is what the cost would be of the new UTD/C’s when it will be released locally and will the new service ever be stable, considering past experiences.
 
I can't see the company in it's present state been able to supply a stable 2mbps to the majority of it's customers when up till now they can't even supply a stable 1mbps to many of it's customers.

As it is the cost and stability of the 1mbps service cannot compete with the 512kbps ADSL nevermind the 4mbps ADSL, and you can be sure that the iburst 2mbps will cost even more and probably even more unstable.

What I will say is that if in the future the system is run by a more competent and less greedy company I would consider signing up again on a month 2 month basis as I did like the idea of not been tied to a phone line.
 
MrH said:
I can't see the company in it's present state been able to supply a stable 2mbps to the majority of it's customers when up till now they can't even supply a stable 1mbps to many of it's customers.

As it is the cost and stability of the 1mbps service cannot compete with the 512kbps ADSL nevermind the 4mbps ADSL, and you can be sure that the iburst 2mbps will cost even more and probably even more unstable.

What I will say is that if in the future the system is run by a more competent and less greedy company I would consider signing up again on a month 2 month basis as I did like the idea of not been tied to a phone line.
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Agreed.
 
Given last year this time they promised the imminent introduction of 2Mbps iBurst, I wouldn't hold my breath.
 
ic said:
I would have expected Australia to have a larger iBurst network compared to SA, do you have a link to go with that?
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Sorry, I've been on holiday, but there is a link somewhere. When we had our 200th basestation they had quite a few less.

It should be around 100+ according to these links:
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=293487
http://www.gps-data-team.com/poi/au...tspots&file=iBurst_base_station&navigation=75

Unless they really overload their basestations they couldnt have many more subscribers either, although they do offer 384kb and 512kb services.
 
MrH said:
As it is the cost and stability of the 1mbps service cannot compete with the 512kbps ADSL nevermind the 4mbps ADSL, and you can be sure that the iburst 2mbps will cost even more and probably even more unstable.
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Seeing how Kyocera achieve 2mbps is interesting too. They simply have two antennas on one modem and these both connect to the tower giving you "two data streams" which make it 2mbps. I wonder if that will be better or worse for performance.
 
Ekhaatvensters said:
Seeing how Kyocera achieve 2mbps is interesting too. They simply have two antennas on one modem and these both connect to the tower giving you "two data streams" which make it 2mbps. I wonder if that will be better or worse for performance.
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Going by the way iburst SA runs the system it'll probably be twice as bad as before.:rolleyes:

That will also mean that if a customer needed an antenna before he/she would then need 2 which would also lead to double trouble.:sick:

The only hope for this system is if a competent company takes it over before the name iburst becomes known for unreliability in SA.:eek:
 
MrH said:
Going by the way iburst SA runs the system it'll probably be twice as bad as before.:rolleyes:

That will also mean that if a customer needed an antenna before he/she would then need 2 which would also lead to double trouble.:sick:

The only hope for this system is if a competent company takes it over before the name iburst becomes known for unreliability in SA.:eek:
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I wouldn't be surprised. :(

I'm actually on ADSL now at a friends house, and it just went down for about an hour and international was timing out badly once it came back on. It was back to normal soon enough, and local was always (very) fast, but I almost expected ADSL to be perfect after being on iBurst for so long and thinking about ADSL.
 
EHV, my connection is a little "sluggish" tonight but it has NOT been down or timing out today/tonight.

"Sluggish" as in browsing but downloading at the full 4mbps.

Even with my good iburst connection it was never anywhere as stable as the ADSL I have now.
 
You can’t compare the two services on reliability, iBurst won’t feature – been disconnected 5 times already this eve...

The point is; all local ISP’s provide substandard internet connections, however from those that are usable, i.e. semi-stable iBurst must be the worst...

Not considering My Wireless, Cell C, etc. as they aren’t useable/stable at all.

Regards

M
 
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