With the rapid development of mobile services, there had been increasing pressure and demands on mobile backhaul bandwidth, especially in terms of 3G service provision. Abis optimization can ameliorate this situation to some extent by enhancing transport efficiency, but the total value it generates remains in question.

Since the dawn of the new millennium, the communication industry in China has yearned for FTTH technology. However, high costs have prevented its establishment. Since 2006, PON technology has rapidly matured and high bandwidth services have increased their requirements. Nevertheless, FTTH is still not adopted in China as widely as ADSL because its operation and maintenance problems remain unsolved. In this case, large scale commercial cannot be realized.

In October 2007, ITU consolidated WiMAX as a 3G technology by adding it to the official IMT-2000 standards. As operators such as Vodafone, Brasil Telecom and NTT further commit themselves to WiMAX development, the WiMAX market is rapidly expanding. According to the report of Infonetics Research, the worldwide sales of fixed and mobile WiMAX equipment increased by 6% to USD206 million in the third quarter of 2007, followed by a 14% jump in the fourth quarter. WiMAX is gaining momentum.

After wining a "grand slam" in Europe last year, Huawei received 14 additional HSPA/WCDMA contracts during the first quarter of 2008. These include Telefonica's VIVO HSPA project in Brazil, STC's 2G/3G network in Kuwait, the company's first overseas licensed project, and Millicom's HSPA networks in six Latin American countries. Huawei has also won more than 100 HSPA/WCDMA contracts. With such incredible results, it comes as no surprise that Huawei ranks first in the global telecom industry.

Have you ever noticed that even the most simple business procedures today depend on the ability to exchange information anytime and anywhere? Nowadays, the world has become interlaced with new applications and technology.

In the future, you can enjoy broadband on your own terms—anytime and anywhere. With the speed of downloads continuously increasing, broadband is able to facilitate voice services, multimedia services, work and entertainment. In fact, broadband can now even deliver new cultures and lifestyles. The development of wireless access technologies has enhanced these new trends even further. Wireless broadband access solutions with high bandwidth capacities are currently in extreme demand in the telecom industry.

The evolution from 2G to 3G (and to 3.5G and 4G in the future) will bring significant changes in mobile access technology. However, operators face numerous challenges while they continue to improve their networks with hardware-based upgrades. This has led operators to question whether these upgrades are the most effective and economical way of achieving network modernization.

With the rising competition in the telecom industry and the uncertainty of CDMA’s evolution path, global operators are eyeing new technology that has mobility and the capacity to handle the high demand rates of data services. LTE and UMB are two possible solutions.