+1. Really depends on whether the regulators want to grant license or not. A lot to take into consideration actually, and of course, a lot of money involved, in terms of foreign flow of investment (Digi) and so on.

The governments decision in awarding only 20MHz blocks of spectrum to all the main players, forces them to collaborate among one another to fully use LTE's capabilities.

I guess, for consumers, it was always only about getting it as soon as possible at an even cheaper rate than the current technology, not being aware that there is so much complications behind it, in terms of the investment of the infrastructure and also the upgrade of the current voice call infrastructure.

Why does the the voice call infrastructure has to be upgraded? Is it not compatible with the LTE data systems? That is a different story entirely....

den will the spectrum in m'sia compatible with the LTE smartphones that will be introduced in m'sia?

LTE speed with Maxis Broadband @ TTDI.

Guess I should sue them



Complained and waited for more than 6 months all giving excuses

Planning to wait for the last time until Maxis last promise is to solve it by the end of January

Note, this is DC-HSPA+

SKMM = Check
Cfm = Check

Case closed with remarks Maxis will resolve the issue with our clients.

Maxis someone like an engineer told me the amount of upgrade is limited

Only solution is to build a new tower to distribute the load, I am so frustrated and decided stop arguing.

Just wondering if pushing more bandwidth and backhaul to a tower should help right

I guess Maxis is not committed to handling this complaint at all

do you know the schedule for LTE? if yes..there pm button under my name 

and does we need to terminate and subscribe another package too use LTE? hope u can answer this as many people also want to ask this question 

I can hope it's not so bad...

But then, a certain WiMax provider also started claiming 4G... with up to 1Mbps download speed...

At the minimum, those claiming 4G, should have decency to provide minimum better than average of HSPA+

Looks like my problem is so severe

This is what they told me, I don't actually understand.
They even know their site is congested.
Hope you can help if you understand these

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Did you intentionally left out the total number of subcarriers in regards of spectrum width, mind you without that you can't calculate the maximum throughput? You forgot the fact that the total number of subcarriers are different in 2X10MHz versus 1X20MHz setups? When you do the calculation of radio resources to bits conversion, of course they are similar but it has of no interests to network operators. The spectral efficiency which you argued on has nothing more than the technical meaning of bits conversion related to RF than efficient use spectrum for service deployments.

The spectrum argument has been dead since voice became purely packet switched. Pure data players such as YES, P1, Clearwire, Vivid Wireless and others who provide mobile broadband players hardly see any advantages from using FDD.It is also natural for WIMAx operators to take this route for their next upgrade since WIMAx is also based on TDD. There is no urgent need for them prioritized QoS for voice services. HD Voice is packet based which can be handled with upper layers. If they need, there is the 3G networks to fall back on for pay per minute calls.
Of course you can't use the same strategy as FDD with TDD. But I see you lack the experience and knowledge in deploying your products in real commercial situations. TDD excels in urbanized setups and indoor coverages where you have isolated hotspots that hardly overlaps with other microcells footprints.Take Softbank's Wireless City Planning Project for Metropolitan Tokyo. The number of microcells they'll deploy is about 150 units per sq km all of them with just about the size of a shoebox.Dark fibre is plentiful in metropolitan Tokyo for backhaul. Each "shoebox" will be pumped with 10GE access to a centralised local exchange office which synchronizes time for all of them.So what's your problem with inteferences? Moreover (if you don't know) the sales of LTE microcells is expected to dominate and surpass macro base stations by 2014. It'll expect to make up 90% of all base stations by 2016. DC-HSPA+ will continue to serve greater areas outside the cities, while wifi hotspots will offload data in public areas.  
I've not told you this until now but FYI, I've been a registered member with ETSI since the REL99 days, company forced me to do it upon joining. I'll wouldn't suggest engineers to concentrate reading up those specs without proper exposure and touching knowledge materials supplied by their companies research depts. Without proper guidance and hands-on from seniors or trainers, the contents are gibberish even to most engineers out there. They make good references for facts finding but not cookbooks.
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You hid the fact that 75mbps can only be achieved by TDD-LTE if there's only a single user occupying the whole subcarrier for himself. In a multi user environment that contends, TDD mode's wider lanes will be at advantage. The challenge for throughput is to send as much data over the link with the fixed amount of time. It's true that in a single user environment where one gets to download continuously over a subcarrier for a longer period of time FDD achieves greater transfer speeds but if assuming you have a competition where who gets to paint a larger overall portion of the road, TDD can have just as much covered with higher capacity making up for it.Try benchmarking TDD with more users contending with downloads at the same time, real world condition speeds will drop considerably. One proof I will show you is from a presentation given by a Korean working with NSN, unless he's trying to pull off a lie with the crowd, the results are contrasting compared to the theoretical maximum thoughput which you took from your 3GPP specs boldly. Not that it did indicate any caveat emptor when quoting them. Did they specifically mentioned the conditions when they conducted the tests? Do you now know why I only refer to specs for referencing?They don't tell best practices.



In fact if they have extra spectrum to spare, just like in the case of Clearwire acquisition, Softbank intends to use full 40MHz and give speeds of upto 4-5 times that of what those FDD networks Verizon and ATT are doing.On top of that they can even provide unlimited quotas with the added capacity which none of the 2 FDD players can ever dare commit.

Most WIMAX chipset manufacturers are moving into the TD-LTE camp since both technologies are similarly related.

Inefficient and corrupted governments love playing spectrum auctioning games.They are auctioning little blocks of them everywhere telling people they are scarce and pricing them at exceptional high costs.

As an end result, the move is actually to deter competition from smaller players from entering the next generation game. In the case of USA, the ones who can only afford most of the blocks auctioned are the 2 monopoly giants which are Verizon and AT&T. Don't you see they are continuing their monopoly practices because only the big guns are the only ones who can afford the purchases?

Similarly in Malaysia, the joint team ups are only benefiting the big players such as TM and Maxis. Eventually the smaller players such as P1 will have to end up being absorbed and merged itself into the giants or be eliminated. They are singulating out companies which they only have interests in and make them payback for the continuation of their monopoly tactics.Cronies get themselves with money acquired from licensing and at the same time maintain their monopoly.

Some way or another you will be able to find that people who sits in the FCC or communication commisions have their interests in the giant monopolistic telcos.

What device are you using? Is it capable of achieving more than 7.2Mbps? In my opinion, if the speed is far from promised, then its jz a simple decision that you have, which is to change provider. But, if you have a contract with them, then you can argue their speed is not as promised, thus, the reason why you want to cancel the contract and have the penalty waived. This is especially true if its a wireless broadband or fibre internet. If they don't agree to terminate and waive the penalty, then only the sue scenario comes into picture.

If it's just because the speed is not as advertised, you have no contract and you want to sue, then you'll be going nowhere with that...

Yeah, the moment you sign that T&C acceptance form, its gonna be hard for the user...
Some customers take it seriously, and sue the telco providers for millions in losses!!! (can't carry out business such as online share trading, causing them to lose a fortune).

Outcome: Judge throws the case out of court and scolds the customer not to waste ppl's time. Besides that, have to pay the legal fee's for the telco side.

REAL STORY!

Everyone is complaining current smartphones not in the listing

Digi cannot use GSM 900 & 3G 900mhz like celcom and maxis. Digi have GSM 900 license but slot too little. Make matter worse, gov dont want give Digi GSM 850 license.

I think Digi setup LTE 1800 first just wait gov green light before swith on.

As usual, Digi still silent about their LTE plan. Maxis and Celcom already showing off their plans. Digi still quiet.

Fade up with digi turtle slow actions.

Are you aware about the implications of the switch? From traditional voice to VoLTE? I personally don't see this coming any time soon, due to the nature of the Malaysian market, where still a sizeable portion of the market is still not using smartphones and thus, data.

Why the hell puncak semanaget can get 30mhz ? while the three giants got only 20mhz ?

A well planned 3G DC-HSPA+ network with very good coverage and is in a better position to even take on FD-LTE(with limited spectrum blocks allocations) and even the HSBB fibre networks

Then they should have concentrated on working on their backhaul first don't you think. That's what DiGi is silently concentrating with their Tomorrow's Network advantage. The backhaul plays a very important role to keep sites pumped enough of bandwidth to prevent congestion in real world situations. Creative methods to offload the networks is also an important startegy.

The title of being Asia's 1st to launch commercial LTE has long been taken by others. So launching 1st is not a priority now.
The one who launches the widest coverage, cheapest packages and cater with the surge in network capacity without compormising customers experience is the REAL winner.

I don't understand Malaysian mentality of constraining themselves and always creating competiton only in their areas of choices.
Just look at TM, Maxis, DiGi and UMobile. It's always DU, TTDI, Subang Jaya, Putrajaya and Bangsar. They always get the golden shower first hand and then if demand dies down the whole momentum halts.

Who would be interested for expensive high quota LTE packages when you already have HSBB at home? Would a wise person spent unnecessarily on several overlap services which you don't get to use all of it meaningfully? There's a living to make and there's a more to life other than your smartphone and PC at home.