RTT provide strategic technology and engineering support to companies and organisations developing products and services for new and existing wireless markets.
RTT has over twenty five years of experience in cellular and two way radio phone design and specialist knowledge of handset and network cost and performance issues across all sectors of the wireless industry including TV broadcast, satellite and short range radio.
Every month RTT produces a technology topic. RTT Technology Topics reflect areas of current RTT research and are sent to a continually expanding elective list of engineering, marketing and business team leaders.
This month's topic, 'One
Hundred Years in Telecoms' identifies historical reference points that can be
used to help qualify technology engineering and regulatory policy.
'One Hundred Years in Telecoms' is available as a free download. It is one of a set of four studies in which we have taken a set length of time (a year) at a set period (1983, 1958, 1933 and 1908) to identify precedents that are useful to us today. In the process we examine some of the ways in which the regulatory environment has had to adapt to technology change over the past 25, 50, 75 and 100 years and how it will likely need to change in the future.
There are over 120 Topics archived on this site starting from August 1998. The archive provides a free but immensely valuable resource for researchers in the industry wishing to use past case study experience to validate technology, engineering, market and business decisions.
If you would like future Technology Topics sent to you automatically each month then please join our PUSH LIST
Wireless Heritage Article
We are privileged
to have an article by John Davies now available for download. John joined the
Lancashire Wireless Workshops in 1948 as a radio engineer. He retired in 1984
and lectured for a number of years on private mobile radio system design and
implementation.
In this article he describes the pioneering work undertaken by Lancashire Constabulary on wide area coverage systems and the parallel evolution of mobile and portable 'personal radio' transceivers.
The innovations introduced by Lancashire had very tangible benefits in terms of operational efficiency. John's story, a mix of personal and professional observation, provides a fascinating insight into forty years of radio design experience and comes with some quite wonderful archive photographs. The pdf file is available as a free download.
We would very much like to collect similar articles from people with a story to tell about their work experience in mobile wireless communication. If you have a 'story to tell' do please contact us
New study available to
download
We are very pleased
to announce the availability of a new RTT Study 'Half Duplex/full duplex LTE
800 handsets'. The 45 page pdf file is available as a free download.
The study is a based on a wide range of industry inputs combined with market
data compiled by our colleagues at 'The
Mobile World'.
Commissioned by the GSM Association, the study analyses whether a half duplex FDD option for LTE 800 provides a technically or commercially viable and/or attractive solution to the present lack of spectral harmonisation in the European LTE 800 band.
It is a follow on study to the RF Cost Economics of Handsets White Paper ( 22 pages) and Study ( 91 pages) which analyse RF handset device trends.
The twenty billion dollar spend on the 700 MHz auctions in the US earlier this year has created significant auction income expectations for the 800 MHz band in Europe.
However there is little uniformity in the present European 800 MHz band plan proposals. This suggests that it will be hard to produce handsets for the European market that are cost effective and/or competitive in terms of their RF performance. This will make it difficult for operators to realise value from 800 MHz spectral investment.
Some parts of the regulatory community have assumed that half duplex will provide flexibility in terms of the positioning of the duplex gap and additional flexibility in terms of operational bandwidth allocations on a country by country basis.
There is however a consensus from respondents from the RF component community, transceiver and handset vendors that half duplex FDD will be hard to justify unless more universally adopted in other LTE bands and that any benefits either in terms of handset cost and performance and or spectral allocation flexibility will be hard to realise.
The study provides a detailed analysis of these issues and is designed to be directly useful to all parties involved in or affected by spectral and or standards policy in Europe and the rest of the world.
Strategic Partnerships
We are working
with 'The
Mobile World' and the Shosteck
Group on a new series of integrated technology, engineering,
market and business programmes using what we describe as a 'Balanced Business
Model' approach to maximising returns on past investment.
RTT has worked with the Shosteck group for over 15 years, presenting a wide range of strategic cellular technology and business public and private facilitation workshops. We have been privileged to have had the opportunity of working with over four thousand senior level delegates over this period, developing a non partisan perspective of the pre requisites needed to achieve competitive success.
The 'Balanced Business Model' has developed from a general observation that it is becoming increasingly difficult to optimise resource allocation in multi disciplined businesses faced with increasingly complex technology, engineering, market and business decisions in an economically adverse environment in which risk is highly priced.
This is particularly true in the cellular industry where decision making also needs to comprehend the impact of governmental and regulatory policy on international competitive positioning and the merging of previously separate industry sectors.
The 'Balanced Business Model' brings together a unique combination of global market, business, technology and engineering knowledge and experience. The programmes are run either as a seminar or interactive facilitation workshop and are designed to be directly beneficial to silicon vendors, handset and infrastructure manufacturers, hardware and software vendors and network operators wishing to qualify or validate future spectral or technology investment decisions. Parallel workshops are available for organisations involved in the formulation of standards and/or spectral policy and IPR administration.
If you would like more information on the' Balanced Business Model' series of seminar and workshop programmes, please e-mail Geoff Varrall at geoff@rttonline.com
Yours sincerely,
GEOFF VARRALL
RTT Programmes Limited
2 Arlington Road
Twickenham
Middlesex
TW1 2BG,
UK
Tel: +44 (0)208
744 3163
Fax: +44 (0)208 744 1623