The first 3GSM World Congress of a new era is only two months away. And it’s a new era not just in terms of venue but also in terms of technology, as live networks bring HSDPA off the drawing board and into the real world. However, as issue 20 of 3GSM World Focus Online winds up a year of often breathtaking technological advances, we use our show preview section to examine one of the other, but no less significant, talking points of 2005 through the eyes of Rob Conway, CEO of the GSM Association: the successes - and challenges - of market-building in the developing world.
Nevertheless this will go down as the year in which HSDPA became a reality, and, according to Nigel Toon of baseband processor and modem software developer Icera, interviewed in our news analysis section, part of the reason for that is an exemplary attitude to standardisation, one that, as the company puts it, constrained the requirements to a well-defined set.
To avoid being over-celebratory, however, we have included a look at a major challenge that could come with the rollout of HSDPA networks. It comes in the form of a warning from test and measurement specialist Tektronix: if you’re not talking seriously about KPIs in the user plane you - and your network - may not be ready for 3G, let alone HSDPA.
Vaughan O’Grady
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