RTT provide strategic technology and engineering support to companies and organisations developing products and services for new and existing wireless markets including in particular the global cellular radio market.
RTT has over twenty five years 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, public safety 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 ' Technopolies' considers the impact of a recession on technology choice and how and why technopolies improve spectral economic efficiency.
'Technopolies' is available to download.
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.
We have some great technology topics lined up over the next few months.
Next month we will be covering Technopolies, how and why dominant technologies emerge, the effect of recession on techno diversity and the implications of technopolies on future competitive positioning.
We try and make technology topics topical, informative and thought provoking with an occasional dose of levity thrown in to the mix.
If you have colleagues who you think would be interested in receiving technology topics from us each month then do please encourage them to register for our PUSH LIST
Forthcoming Events
The economics of broadband connectivity, specifically wireless broadband connectivity,
will be discussed in a series of three workshops being organised by the Cambridge
Wireless Future Wide Area Wireless Special Interest Group. These events are
jointly organised with the Digital Communications Knowledge Transfer Network.
The first event, 'Spectrum and the New Economy' will be held at New Hall in Cambridge on 24 September.
'Spectrum and the New Economy' studies the role that radio spectrum can play in national and global economic recovery. In particular we study how techniques that deliver improved spectral economic efficiency could or should influence future spectral policy and/or deliver long term social and economic advantage.
The next meeting, 'Standards and the New Economy' addresses the interrelationship of standards making and economic progress.
The third meeting 'Networks and the New Economy' analyses the convergence that is taking place between wireless and wire line networks at technology level, the impact this is having on industry business models and how network convergence can deliver long term social and economic benefit on a global scale.
To see a full
agenda or book
a place on 'Spectrum and New Economy' visit the Cambridge
Wireless web site
If you are interested in sponsoring or speaking at the second and third event
then please contact helen.fuller@cambridgewireless.co.uk
A new book on LTE
A new book on
LTE, 3G Evolution, HSPA and LTE for Mobile Broadband is available from the Academic
Press, an imprint of Elsevier. Written by a team of Ericsson engineers, this
book provides a blow by blow description of digital cellular physical layer
standardisation.
The book is aimed at practising engineers but is of interest and relevance to anyone in the industry involved in technical or marketing strategy and or product and service development.
Go to the Recommended Reading section of this site for a book listing including other recent LTE titles from other publishers including a new book from John Wiley on Femtocells : Femtocells - opportunities and challenges for Business and Technology". written by Simon Saunders with a forward by Mike Short.
Studies available to
download
There are several
studies available to download from this site. These include '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 would provide 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 cost and device performance trends.
About RTT
RTT,
in association with their strategic partners the Shosteck
Group and The Mobile World
are presently working on a number of research ,forecasting and policy
projects in the cellular, two way radio, satellite and broadcasting industry.
If you would like more information on this work then please contact
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