3G Needs Improved Uplinks To Meet Symmetrical Demand

Carriers are missing out on revenue opportunities by focussing on asymmetrical services for 3G, according to Geoff Varrall, director of UK-based RTT Programmes and leader of the workshop on UMTS/HSDPA network planning. Apparently the industry is too excited by the downlink capabilities of 3G that it hasn’t thought about improving the uplink, and gaining reward from that.
In addition to mobile camera blogging, “other service opportunities taking advantage of imaging and symmetrical services include content management services such as storage services, indexing and search, as well as barcode scanning functions. Operators could also add more value to services like mobile TV and visual radio by allowing users to submit their own content that could be posted on programs in the same way that SMS messages are posted on live music video shows, for example”.

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