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Will you buy Huawei E589 or Unlocked Vodafone R210 4G Pocket WiFi?

It has been a long time since Huawei E589 and Vodafone R210 available in the market. But there are still many users who haven’t gotten their 4G mobile WiFi.

Today, we will have a general review of the two similar 4G LTE mobile WiFi. Huawei released Huawei E589 at the beginning of 2012, then Vodafone customized this factory model per its preference, then Vodafone R210 was presented to public.

Vodafone R210 4G Pocket WiFi was first available in European areas for Vodafone 4G LTE network. With Vodafone logo below the screen, it looks cool. The classic combination of red and black color makes Vodafone R210 attractive. However, following the factory model of Huawei E589, Vodafone R210 has only one external antenna connector, which may not be a good solution for MIMO. The battery is inserted and cannot be detachable. But the battery is rechargeable with capacity of 3000mAh, which could support the R210 to work for 6 – 8 hours.

Here comes a question, what’s the key difference between Huawei E589 and Vodafone R210? Are they just different from the logo? It’s a good question.

Vodafone R210 is for the commercial 4G LTE network from Vodafone in Europe. So when Vodafone ordered R210, it set R210 to support its deployed 4G LTE frequency band 800/1800/2600MHz. However, Huawei E589 is the model in Huawei brand, so it’s not limited to any network, per the specification, we found it would work on 4G FDD 800/900/1800/2100/2600MHz, which covers almost 80% 4G FDD network available now. Based on good reputation in 3G mobile WiFi, Huawei E589 4G LTE pocket WiFi will lead the market demand.

So Huawei E589 would support more operators over the world, unlimited to Vodafone. Per current sales record, Huawei E589 is the most popular mobile WiFi for 4G LTE network, especially in Asia and Europe. The good news is that there are unlocked Vodafone R210 available in 4gltemall.com , it means Vodafone R210 could not only work with Vodafone 4G network, but also support the 4G FDD network operators in other countries or areas. And the price is better than Huawei E589, so if you like Vodafone R210, and don’t want contract, to buy an unlocked Vodafone R210 from 4gltemall.com is a good idea.

Huawei LTE Prevails in patent dispute against ZTE

The Chinese network equipment supplier Huawei has obtained on the Mannheim Regional Court for an injunction against ZTE. After the verdict, the judge ZTE violates five of the total of 18 patent claims by Huawei. Thus, it is no longer permitted ZTE to sell certain LTE base stations in Germany.

The dispute involved a patented method of Huawei the key derivation at the handover of receiving equipment from a base station to a radio cell to another base station. Furthermore, contrary ZTE also protected against the Huwawei of product design specialized hardware. Also after court, this may caused ZTE no longer sell LTE stations in Germany. Exceptions to this are LTE surf sticks for LTE networks.

In 2011 began the patent feud

Except before the District Court of Mannheim, the two network suppliers argue in two other methods in the Düsseldorf Regional Court. Again, it’s about LTE patents. A verdict is expected later this week.

These lawsuits are part of a major offensive against its competitor Huawei and ZTE. Since in April 2011, Huawei and ZTE has sued in several courts in Germany, France and Hungary. A little later then also overtook ZTE for retaliation and has also brought actions against patents in various countries of the competitors.

Huawei E5172 4G 150Mbps LTE Cat4 CPE Review

2012 is the beginning year of 4G LTE network, following that 2013 should be one to well develop for 4G LTE. Based on professional experience in network solution, Huawei is leading the trend of communication industry. As we can, Huawei had released many 4G UE, some of which are very popular by the operators and users.

In 2013, Huawei presents many new gadgets to public. Huawei E5172 150Mbps LTE Cat4 CPE is one of them. Today, we will have a look at this new 4G LTE CPE.

Some readers may already have the first 4G LTE CPE B593 from Huawei. The CPE is for indoor use, with SIM card plug in, it supports maximum up to 100Mbps download speed. And there are 4 Ethernet ports, one telephone slot and one interface for power charge in B593. Huawei B593 also has many sub-branch models. These variants are for different network frequency bands and operators.

Then here comes a question, since Huawei E5172 CPE is the latest model, what’s the difference between them?

At first glance, Huawei E5172 is in black color, and the size is smaller than B593. It’s key feature should be it’s a LTE Cat4 CPE, which would support maximum download speed to 150Mbps. It’s the fastest 4G CPE till now. This is speed on FDD network, but with TDD network, the speed could reach 112Mbps for downstream. The different frequency band decides many variants for Huawei E5172, such as Huawei E5172s-22, Huawei E5172s-515 and Huawei E5172s-920.

Similar to Huawei B593, E5172 also supports up to 32 users to share the wireless network. HUAWEI E5172 is also a stationary router, but there is only one port for LAN, while B593 has 4 ports for Ethernet. There is also port for power and one port for telephone. But there is only one external antenna port for HUAWEI E5172.

On the side of E5172, there is WPS, WLAN button, and reset hole is in the middle of them. Beside the LAN port, there is cover, below the cover is the battery. It’s inserted battery. On the front face, there are indicators listed on the surface.

And per the official information, HUAWEI E5172 CPE also supports IPv 6, DLNA, Fax, Print, VPN and VLAN. It could support firewall and voice functions. With remote management, users could easily manage this fastest CPE till now. This is the LTE category 4 CPE HUAWEI E5172, we will introduce more applications later.

What’s the Difference Between HUAWEI E3272 and E3276?

At the MWC, we saw the new 4G LTE cat4 USB Stick Huawei E3272. At the first glance of the LTE cat4 modem, it reminds us the Huawei E3276, the world’s first LTE cat4 4G Surfstick. Since they both support 4G LTE cat4, here comes a question: what’s the difference between them?

Huawei E3276 is an elder model which was released at the beginning of 2012. Here now, there are various sub-models available for many operators. The model Huawei E3276s-151 is the most popular model. Huawei E3272 comes out on MWC 2013.

The first difference between Huawei E3276 and E3272 is chipset platform, Huawei researched how own brand chipset Hisilicon, before that, Huawei always use Qualcomm 4G chipset, which arise the cost of Huawei 4G modems. Now with Huawei chipset, we suppose the price of its 4G modem would be much cheaper than before and acceptable for most users.

As the same feature of Huawei E3276, Huawei E3272 also supports 4G FDD and TDD networks. In the sub-models, they may support only TDD or FDD network, or together. Under TDD network, the peak download speed up to 112Mbps while upload peak speed is 10Mbps. With FDD network, the speed may reach 150Mbps for downlink and 50Mbps for uplink. The difference lies on the 2G network.

Huawei E3272 could not only support TDD/FDD/UMTS/GSM/GPRS, it could also support the American standard EVDO. So Huawei E3272 would be most likely to be available for American operators.

In addition to the appearance, Huawei E3272 LTE cat4 USB modem has a unique feature: HiLink technology. In Huawei 3G USB stick, this technology has been commonly used. It’s a user friendly system for modem application. No Driver installation, after the modem plug to PC, it would automatically connects in 15 seconds. Huawei use this technology in 4G USB modems, which makes Huawei E3272 more attractive, especially for the users who are bored about setup or configure the parameter. With simple operation, Huawei E3272 would response quick and get connected. Huawei E3272 should be the first 4G dongle with HiLink technology.

In conclusion, Huawei E3272 improves many functions and should performance much better than Huawei E3276. But whether Huawei chipset Hisilicon would be reliable, time will tell.

HUAWEI New LTE Cat 4 MBBs on MWC 2013

Communication Reuters (CWW) February 27, held in Barcelona, Spain, 2013 Mobile World Congress MWC, Huawei exhibited the full range the LTE Cat4 data terminal containing:

The world’s first LTE Cat4 Wingle Wi-Fi dongle E8278
The 5G compact exquisite design LTE Cat4 mobile hotspot E5372,
The Stylish homeb broadband of LTE Cat4 Speed Cube E5170,
LTE Cat4 dongle E3272 with sports car streamlined design,

And other Smartphone and MediaQ serials terminals further highlight the strength of Huawei LTE data terminals.

In 2012, LTE set off a wave of building climax in the world. Comparing to the fixed network by the transmission rate, and a relative fixed network, LTE data service is more flexible business laying relatively 2G, 3G cheaper single-bit cost, and relatively Wi-MAX, and incorporates a much more mature industry chain. So more and more wireless operators, fixed-line operators, Wi-MAX operators are beginning to invest in LTE business. According to the GSA report shows that in January 2013, 381 operators in 114 countries are building LTE networks, and 145 LTE networks in 66 countries have officially commercial, expected at the end of 2013, total 234 providers’ LTE networks would be launched to commercial in 83 countries.

Commercial LTE network is inseparable from the support of the terminal, and the data terminal is no doubt a pioneer. With the wide range of commercial LTE network, a large number of LTE data terminals become personal essentials into the home and for small and medium-sized enterprises, and scale. Huawei played an important role in this regard. As of the end of December, Huawei has more than 90% of the commercial LTE network provides a service terminal 12 annual shipments of more than 3 million units.

“Huawei is one of the few vendors who are able to provide wide coverage, multi-band, end-to-end solutions and in current success makes us confident about the future.” Said Liu Xiaobin, vice president of Huawei mobile broadband product line, Huawei will always focus customer center, from the needs of customers and consumers, to leading-edge technology and leading design, sustainable and innovative spirit, to bring consumers leading experience and help customers achieve sustained commercial success. ”

In fact, Huawei LTE has global leader in the powerful technical strength. Huawei, the world’s first LTE CPE B390 VDF effective in helping to achieve the coverage of the dead zone of Germany rural fixed-line, the world’s first TD-LTE multi-mode data card E392 boost Saudi carriers STC offers the world’s first TD-LTE network services, the mobile hotspot GL01P, GL04P long-term rotation occupy Japan data terminal weekly sales champion. Huawei is currently the only supplier can provide the LTE Cat4 terminal, an industry-leading one year ahead, so far HUAWEI has shipped for more than 40 carriers. In 2013, HUAWEI will also give consumers exciting support LTE Cat6 terminal peak downlink rates of up to 300Mbps; With innovation, Huawei will release the world’s first LTE Cat4 Wingle E8278, support 10 Wi-Fi devices to connect at the same time, share a high-speed network, and other similar Wingle family products by Charger, Car Charger, charging treasure a variety of ways such as power supply. E8278 also supports Huawei’s own patented plug-and-play networking 15 seconds HiLink technology, reducing the failure rate significantly enhance product usability, some customers after use HiLink patented technology, product failure rate from 1.8% down to 0.3 %, not only a substantial increase user stickiness, and at the same time make the user’s Web experience more perfect.

A Brief History of LTE

The short history of LTE shows only five years it took from the start until the introduction. This follows the mobile a trend that can be observed in new technologies: What is now on the market, may have a million customers in near future.

Digital Mobile Radio: from GSM to LTE

The first phone last 28 years to crack 10 million mark of users. The cable television made it in 25 years to get the phone in 9 years, the wireless data transmission in 6 years, from zero to ten million customers. Faster new technologies are accepted by the mass market.

The new LTE technologies were developed as fast as any other telecommunications technology. For comparison: In 1982, the development of GSM by “Groupie Special Mobile”. It was launched by the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations. In 1991, the first GSM network in Finland went on the air. In 1992, GSM set internationally by the market. In 1987, the UMTS Basic Research, 1992, the frequencies stipulated for 2001 launched the first commercial UMTS network, followed by the Standards for the additional technology to quickly send HSDPA(2002) and HSUPA (2005).

The UMTS technology was initially developed hesitant, we had already a digital mobile radio standard and the number of applications for faster wireless data transfer was still very manageable. Later, the networks were constructed reluctant, partly because they had to pay high license fees and the lack of money for investment, partly because the applications bring quick profits, were not in sight.

In LTE, it goes very fast

LTE everything goes much faster. For those applications that need more and more data faster by radio are finally been on UMTS market.

LTE is considered the birth of 2004, when in Toronto, held a workshop on wireless networks and LTE. About forty mobile operators were represented, to research institutes and universities. As a result, created a study on how to rapidly develop and build a fast data network, has short response times and nearly bring the performance of a wired network.

In June 2007, the standard for new mobile technology is being committed. In 2008, Ericsson unveils the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the first time establishes a connection between two compact LTE terminals, there will be a transfer rate of 25 mbps per second achieved. End of 2008, the Korean company LG to introduce the first-install LTE chip, it could reach peak speed at 60Mbps.

Finally, in December 2009, the first commercial LTE network in Sweden is put into operation, in late summer and fall of 2010 in Germany, the first LTE phone masts ready.

LTE: The Fastest Developed Technology

For the Global Supplier Association, a global trade association for the mobile industry, LTE is now “ the most rapidly developing technology in the history of telecommunications.”

Meanwhile, large-scale commercial LTE networks available in many countries and areas.

Digital Dividend

The switchover to digital terrestrial television wide frequency ranges were free, the so-called digital dividend.

Only ten per cent of the original required frequencies are now claimed by the television. The rest can now be used for other functional areas such as mobile communications. The frequency bands 790-862 MHz was auctioned in May 2010 by the Federal Network Agency to reach the rural area with high speed internet. Since the development of the wired broadband in many sparsely populated areas unprofitable for network operators, the frequencies are now used as the digital dividend as so to reach all citizens.

Greater Range of 800 MHz Bands

The Federal government has to set up a broadband initiative, to every Germany citizen to enable broadband access to the Internet. Only when the rural areas are supplied in this manner, may the expansion of LTE in major cities and metropolitan areas begin.

The digital dividend frequencies are extremely popular with the network operators. Transmitters in the frequency range to 800 MHz have a longer range than the sender, for example, 2600 Mhz range. According to experts, an LTE radio cell operating at 800 MHz has an average diameter of six kilometers, an LTE radio cell with 2600 MHz average diameter 600 meters. This is due to the physical propagation characteristics of radio waves.

The Expansion can Begin

The Federal Network Agency auctioned in May 2010, the digital dividend spectrum. The three major German network operators German Telekom, Vodafone and Telefonica O2 were able to bid on two blocks. End of August 2010 until the blocks assigned to concrete. In the spectrum auction in May, the operators had only offered on capacities.

Only a concrete black was auctioned. The first black, which lies in close proximity to TV channels, was acquired by Telefonica O2. Now the company is the nearest black was released. Telekom and Vodafone both received two blacks assigned by lottery.

Now that all of auctioned spectrum blacks are assigned to fast broadband is also on the land now in the hands of the company. Network operators can now have a more focused network planning and expand their networks quickly and on, “said Matthias Kurth, President of the Federal Network Agency over the Internet magazine.

Fast Mobile Internet In Europe

The exploitation of the digital dividend is not only a concern of the Federal Government. The European Union sees this as an important step towards the universal coverage of broadband internet. Not only access for all Europeans to fast, mobile Internet will be achieved through the coordinated use of the digital dividend. In this way, even a single European market will be created. Currently, the European market is still fragmented and crisscrossed by borders. If it is possible to synchronize the wireless networks, EU citizens in coming year’s cross-border access mobile media content and mobile services.

Advisor: LTE Laptop Datacards

An LTE Laptop card is a radio modem, which is a small transmitter and receiver station which dominates the radio data technology of LTE. It is connected via a card slot on a laptop.

Wireless modem cards are more and more of a niche product, but most users prefer the much more portable USB flash drive. However, these sticks are in LTE design advised comparatively clunky, since you do need space to the necessary for LTE dual-antenna accommodate. It remains to be seen whether this will lead to a return of the wireless data cards.

This is theoretical consideration for the time being, as at present, Fujitsu is the world’s only LTE-compatible card on the market. It’s offered by Japanese mobile operator DoCoMo on its network: The F-06C from the Japanese manufacturer Fujitsu.

The radio modem in map form in LTE networks can receive a maximum of 75 megabits per second data (downlink) and 25 Mbps receive(uplink). In the UMTS network of the third generation, it offers a theoretical maximum 7.2Mbit/s when downloading the data transmission technology HSDPA and 5.7Mbit/s upload speeds with HSUPA.

What you should consider when buying

A data card is, given the very large size of the LTE Surf sticks, possibly a real alternative. This is especially true if the USB ports of your laptop or notebook computers are so close together that by LTE surf stick possibly two slots are blocked. In such cased, a wireless modem in card fromat can be a useful variant.

LTE: The chipmaker to upgrade

LTE is made by the world and the chipmaker to upgrade: the new high-speed mobile networks get new chips. That is smaller, faster and use less power.

Consumers drive the development of the mobile. The move will also use high speed internet. With LTE and LTE advanced will continue its development by radio reaches speeds that were previously only available via cable. These fast connections are not shared with big clunky PCs connected screens that hang permanently to the mains, but for devices that fit in our pockets and get the necessary power from a battery. A technical challenge for chip manufactures.

The Chips can expect faster

Modern smartphones have more applications: positioning and navigation, multimedia, play music, show videos and photos to build with various technologies such as WLAN, Bluetooth, HSPA+ and LTE data radio links and run individual programs such as games or emailing. There are also functions that run in the background as the control of energy consumption or the managing disk space, and new requirements such as faster data connections and a growing space.

The small calculators must therefore expect more and more. The computing power is given by technicians usually with Hertz. In 2002, chip was with an output of 27 megahertz, which could carry 23 million elementary arithmetic operations per second as super fast, so Thomas Nindl by U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm writes in an article for the portal. The technical term for this is 23 million instructions per second. Chips that are processed in smartphones today have been a performance of 1 GHz and can carry up to 2 billion elementary operations per second, or 2000 mbps. So you have a nearly ten times as strong computing performance.

A key technology for increasing the processing speed is the use of several small calculation machines, which are combines in one kit, and the count in parallel and independently. Technicians are talking about multi-core processors. These processors can perform several functions simultaneously, it’s not an application that is processed at a time, but several are processed simultaneously. This saves the user unnecessary wating time.

For PCs today are dual-core processors, with smartphones, they are compatible with the new fast LTE networks.

The Chips are getting smaller

At the same time, the components that make up these miniature calculators are assembled became smaller, only then, it’s possible to focus an increasing computational power on a smaller and smaller area.

The chips that pack more computing power in an area has a further advantage: reduces the power consumption.

Telephoning With LTE—VoLTE or Volga

There are surf sticks, router or data cards for computers, but Smartphone owners will not only surf but also calling and texting. There are different technical ways to offer besides faster data transfer and telephony. Which path to choose LTE network operator, is meanwhile not clear, there are some uncertainties. It’s also unclear whether the new LTE Smartphone currently really offer what you would expect from such a device into a super fast network. The usual headache of first users is that they usually report functions that the networks are running slowly or with batteries that are empty after a few hours of use.

One thing is clear that the upgrading of the networks on additional functions such as the one hand calls for the network operator is not free; it will cost a lot of money. On the other hand, the users want surf and even better with new expensive LTE Smartphone, the expensive rates at least as good as the old UMTS model.

The Rustic Method: Back to GSM and UMTS

The simplest theoretical method to offer telephone is reliance on older networks. When the LTE Smartphone to surf the LTE network, a call comes, it comes out of the LTE network and into the GSM or UMTS network calls. In other words, you can surf the LTE network or the GSM/UMTS network calls. It would be theoretically possible. However, the simultaneous operation of two transceivers will bring some problems to a mobile device, such as lousy battery life. The second disadvantage of having recourse to old networks apart from the interruption of the data link: it takes significantly longer for a voice connection is established.

For the rustic solution, that recourse to an old wireless network and call interruptions limited data usage via LTE, has been the American mobile operator Metro PCS decided. Metro PCS offered worldwide in the first LTE Smartphone in its new LTE network, and how many customers you could win it, concealing the company. But apparently saw Metro action, it now wants to upgrade the telephony technology to VoLTE shortly.

The Majority Solution: Voice over LTE, VoLTE

Voice over LTE ( VoLTE ) describes a new technology for the transfer of mobile phone calls in LTE network. The change from GSM and UMTS phone technology to VoLTE is – in simple terms, the shift from analog or ISDN lines to IP telephony comparable.

With the old telephony technology, a separate line for conversation is provided, the data on a different transmission run secreted. With the new networks, everything runs on Internet technologies and the talks are treated as data packets that are transmitted along with other data packets. Therefore one must of course int eh LTE core network set up an additional new location, this is called the IP Multimedia Subsystem. With the system, calls are treated like simple Internet files.

This solution is called VoLTE, it is currently being sought by many network operators worldwide, the U.S. now wants to implement next to Metro PCS LTE is also the largest provider Verizon Wireless. It is the technical solution that will end all use LTE operators, unless they agree. But it is costly – the mobile network operators have to adapt their IT infrastructure to the new system.

The Outsider: Volga

Therefore we have devised a further intermediate step that once does not cost as much and also gives good results in terms of the speed of a connection setup or the voice quality. The technology is called Volga, which is the abbreviation for anything cumbersome expression Voice over LTE via Generic Access.

Using this technology, an additional point will be created through which the calls go, but this time not inside, it’s outside the LTE network. This new board is the VANC, which stands for Volga Access Network Controller. About him, so to speak, the phone calls are funneled into the LTE core network, without having to change anything in the core network itself or adapt. That is, they say, Volga, is faster and more cost-effective than the introduction of VoLTE.