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68-587: Released January 28, 2014 The BlackBerry Z10 was an LTE touchscreen -based smartphone developed by BlackBerry , previously known as RIM. The BlackBerry Z10 was the first of two new BlackBerry phones presented at the BlackBerry 10 event on January 30, 2013. The BlackBerry Z10 was followed by the Z30 . BlackBerry's chief operating officer Kristian Tear and chief marketing officer Frank Boulben fought against co-founder and former co-CEO Mike Lazaridis to have
136-668: A burst mode branded as "TimeShift". The Z10 also featured voice control . There were four SKUs for the Blackberry Z10, corresponding to the North American carrier band distribution and international versions. The LTE version of the Z10 featured the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus ( SoC ) which had a dual-core CPU running at 1.5 GHz, and an Adreno 225 GPU for LTE-capable units. For markets where LTE
204-563: A 49 percent stake in government-controlled MTN Irancell , the second-largest mobile phone operator in Iran , and 21 percent of MTN's subscriber base is from the country. In January 2012, the US-based advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) launched a campaign publicly calling for MTN to scale back its operations in Iran and end its business in the country. UANI alleges that MTN technology
272-464: A Belgian company, has also worked to build small cells for LTE-TDD networks. Trials of LTE-TDD technology began as early as 2010, with Reliance Industries and Ericsson India conducting field tests of LTE-TDD in India , achieving 80 megabit-per second download speeds and 20 megabit-per-second upload speeds. By 2011, China Mobile began trials of the technology in six cities. Although initially seen as
340-411: A coalition of international companies that worked to develop and test the technology. China Mobile was an early proponent of LTE-TDD, along with other companies like Datang Telecom and Huawei , which worked to deploy LTE-TDD networks, and later developed technology allowing LTE-TDD equipment to operate in white spaces —frequency spectra between broadcast TV stations. Intel also participated in
408-618: A combined LTE-TDD and LTE-FDD network in Poland, and by April 2012, ZTE Corporation had worked to deploy trial or commercial LTE-TDD networks for 33 operators in 19 countries. In late 2012, Qualcomm worked extensively to deploy a commercial LTE-TDD network in India, and partnered with Bharti Airtel and Huawei to develop the first multi-mode LTE-TDD smartphone for India. In Japan , SoftBank Mobile launched LTE-TDD services in February 2012 under
476-530: A different radio interface and core network improvements. LTE is the upgrade path for carriers with both GSM/UMTS networks and CDMA2000 networks. Because LTE frequencies and bands differ from country to country, only multi-band phones can use LTE in all countries where it is supported. The standard is developed by the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) and is specified in its Release 8 document series, with minor enhancements described in Release 9. LTE
544-681: A minority stake in MTN Group's Nigeria business for $ 335 million. In 2014, the company sold its tower portfolios in Côte d’Ivoire , Cameroon , Zambia and Rwanda to IHS Towers . That year, MTN was named to the 2014 BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brand rankings and named the Most Admired and Most Valuable Brand in Africa, retaining the latter ranking in 2015. IHS Towers later acquired MTN South Africa’s towers, in 2022. In March 2016,
612-485: A number of carriers promoting VoLGA (Voice over LTE Generic Access) as an interim solution. The idea was to use the same principles as GAN (Generic Access Network, also known as UMA or Unlicensed Mobile Access), which defines the protocols through which a mobile handset can perform voice calls over a customer's private Internet connection, usually over wireless LAN. VoLGA however never gained much support, because VoLTE ( IMS ) promises much more flexible services, albeit at
680-490: A presale for the Z10 with an unknown launch date for the phone. Eastlink has also released the Z10. In South Africa the Z10 became available on February 22, 2013 on MTN. Vodacom had announced their intention to make the Z10 available, the day before on 21st Feb 2013. In Nigeria, the Z10 became available on March 1, 2013 on carriers Etisalat , Glo , Airtel and MTN Nigeria . Claro República Dominicana announced pre-order date of March 7 on Facebook and sale on March 14 in
748-545: A registered trademark owned by ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) for the wireless data communications technology and a development of the GSM/UMTS standards. However, other nations and companies do play an active role in the LTE project. The goal of LTE was to increase the capacity and speed of wireless data networks using new DSP (digital signal processing) techniques and modulations that were developed around
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#1732783574690816-460: A series of tests of voice over LTE ( VoLTE) calls on China Mobile's TD-LTE network. The next month, Nokia Solutions and Networks and Sprint announced that they had demonstrated throughput speeds of 2.6 gigabits per second using a LTE-TDD network, surpassing the previous record of 1.6 gigabits per second. Much of the LTE standard addresses the upgrading of 3G UMTS to what will eventually be 4G mobile communications technology. A large amount of
884-693: A technology utilized by only a few countries, including China and India, by 2011 international interest in LTE-TDD had expanded, especially in Asia, in part due to LTE-TDD's lower cost of deployment compared to LTE-FDD. By the middle of that year, 26 networks around the world were conducting trials of the technology. The Global LTve (GTI) was also started in 2011, with founding partners China Mobile, Bharti Airtel , SoftBank Mobile , Vodafone , Clearwire , Aero2 and E-Plus . In September 2011, Huawei announced it would partner with Polish mobile provider Aero2 to develop
952-508: A transfer latency of less than 5 ms in the radio access network . LTE has the ability to manage fast-moving mobiles and supports multi-cast and broadcast streams. LTE supports scalable carrier bandwidths , from 1.4 MHz to 20 MHz and supports both frequency division duplexing (FDD) and time-division duplexing (TDD). The IP-based network architecture, called the Evolved Packet Core (EPC) designed to replace
1020-555: A variety of default BlackBerry applications. The phone had a mobile hotspot functionality that could support up to 8 devices. It accessed the BlackBerry World , an online application distribution platform for the BlackBerry OS. The touchscreen keyboard featured predictive text capabilities. The BlackBerry Z10 had an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. Its camera software included
1088-481: A voice call on a non-VoLTE-enabled network or device, LTE handsets will fall back to old 2G or 3G networks for the duration of the call. To ensure compatibility, 3GPP demands at least AMR-NB codec (narrow band), but the recommended speech codec for VoLTE is Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband , also known as HD Voice . This codec is mandated in 3GPP networks that support 16 kHz sampling. Fraunhofer IIS has proposed and demonstrated "Full-HD Voice", an implementation of
1156-639: Is "enabling the Iranian government to locate and track individual cellphone users which it says is a violation of users' human rights". In June 2012, Reuters and the BBC reported an allegation by Chris Kilowan, a former executive for the company in Iran, that MTN Group may have been complicit in securing American telecommunications technology from Sun Microsystems , Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems on behalf of Irancell, in violation of trade sanctions against Iran. Oracle , which owns Sun Microsystems, said that it
1224-695: Is a South African multinational corporation and mobile telecommunications provider. Its head office is in Johannesburg . MTN is among the largest mobile network operators in the world , and the largest in Africa . MTN is active in over 20 countries including Asian countries like Syria, with one-third of company revenue generated in Nigeria , where it held about 35 percent market share in 2016, and 289.1 million subscribers in December 2022. MTN Group
1292-622: Is a list of top 10 countries/territories by 4G LTE coverage as measured by OpenSignal.com in February/March 2019. For the complete list of all the countries/territories, see list of countries by 4G LTE penetration . Long-Term Evolution Time-Division Duplex ( LTE-TDD ), also referred to as TDD LTE , is a 4G telecommunications technology and standard co-developed by an international coalition of companies, including China Mobile , Datang Telecom , Huawei , ZTE , Nokia Solutions and Networks , Qualcomm , Samsung , and ST-Ericsson . It
1360-578: Is also called 3.95G and has been marketed as 4G LTE and Advanced 4G ; but the original version did not meet the technical criteria of a 4G wireless service, as specified in the 3GPP Release 8 and 9 document series for LTE Advanced . The requirements were set forth by the ITU-R organisation in the IMT Advanced specification; but, because of market pressure and the significant advances that WiMAX , Evolved High Speed Packet Access , and LTE bring to
1428-708: Is generally cheaper to access, and has less traffic. Further, the bands for LTE-TDD overlap with those used for WiMAX , which can easily be upgraded to support LTE-TDD. Despite the differences in how the two types of LTE handle data transmission, LTE-TDD and LTE-FDD share 90 percent of their core technology, making it possible for the same chipsets and networks to use both versions of LTE. A number of companies produce dual-mode chips or mobile devices, including Samsung and Qualcomm , while operators CMHK and Hi3G Access have developed dual-mode networks in Hong Kong and Sweden, respectively. The creation of LTE-TDD involved
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#17327835746901496-495: Is one of the two mobile data transmission technologies of the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology standard, the other being Long-Term Evolution Frequency-Division Duplex ( LTE-FDD ). While some companies refer to LTE-TDD as "TD-LTE" for familiarity with TD-SCDMA , there is no reference to that abbreviation anywhere in the 3GPP specifications. There are two major differences between LTE-TDD and LTE-FDD: how data
1564-493: Is owned by MTN Group. Supersonic provides Fibre through most Service Providers including OpenServe and Vumatel . SuperSonic also offers “Air Fibre”, a 5G Based Mobile data service introduced in February 2021. In July 2021, they were fourth from the bottom of a list of 16 big ISP's that were rated. MTN Group sponsored the CAF Champions League football competition, as well as APOEL FC , winners of
1632-681: Is the primary sponsor of the South Africa national rugby union team and sponsors English football club Manchester United and Zambian Super League. The Nigerian subsidiary of the group also has an existing sponsorship deal with the Nigerian Football Federation . The company was founded in 1994 as M-Cell with assistance from the South African government. In 1995, it replaced its then CEO, John Beck, with Robert (Bob) Chaphe and founder Leena Jaitley. In 2001,
1700-531: Is the primary sponsor of the South Africa national rugby union team . From 2013 till date, its foundation - MTN Foundation- has sponsored Nigerian Students with financial and educational grants well over ₦2.5 billion. It gave over 1,000 students across 2 geo-political zones in Nigeria ₦300,000 grant each in October, 2024. MTN has been criticised for its activities in Iran's telecommunications sector . MTN has
1768-703: Is uploaded and downloaded, and what frequency spectra the networks are deployed in. While LTE-FDD uses paired frequencies to upload and download data, LTE-TDD uses a single frequency, alternating between uploading and downloading data through time. The ratio between uploads and downloads on a LTE-TDD network can be changed dynamically, depending on whether more data needs to be sent or received. LTE-TDD and LTE-FDD also operate on different frequency bands, with LTE-TDD working better at higher frequencies, and LTE-FDD working better at lower frequencies. Frequencies used for LTE-TDD range from 1850 MHz to 3800 MHz, with several different bands being used. The LTE-TDD spectrum
1836-459: The AAC-ELD (Advanced Audio Coding – Enhanced Low Delay) codec for LTE handsets. Where previous cell phone voice codecs only supported frequencies up to 3.5 kHz and upcoming wideband audio services branded as HD Voice up to 7 kHz, Full-HD Voice supports the entire bandwidth range from 20 Hz to 20 kHz. For end-to-end Full-HD Voice calls to succeed, however, both
1904-575: The BlackBerry 10 (at the time running on 10.3.3) mobile operating system based on QNX . The user interface of BB 10 was based on the concept of direct manipulation , using multi-touch gestures . Interaction with the OS included a range of multi-touch gestures, all of which had specific definitions within the context of the BB10 operating system and its multi-touch interface. The Z10 came pre-loaded with
1972-598: The COFDM radio access technique to replace the CDMA and studying its Terrestrial use in the L band at 1428 MHz (TE) In 2004 by Japan's NTT Docomo , with studies on the standard officially commenced in 2005. In May 2007, the LTE/ SAE Trial Initiative (LSTI) alliance was founded as a global collaboration between vendors and operators with the goal of verifying and promoting the new standard in order to ensure
2040-538: The Cypriot First Division in 2009 , 2011 , 2013 and 2014 , and participants in the 2009–10 and 2011–12 UEFA Champions League . On 18 March 2010, it was announced that MTN signed a sponsorship deal with English football club Manchester United F.C. MTN Group has been the title sponsor of the Ghana FA Cup , renaming the competition as MTN FA Cup, since 2010. Since 2017, MTN Group
2108-624: The Dominican Republic . Orange Dominicana also announced pre-order of March 7 with a launch of March 14 on their Facebook page. On February 10, 2013, prepaid provider and T-Mobile US -MVNO Solavei became the first in the United States to offer the BlackBerry Z10. In March 2013, T-Mobile USA announced that the Z10 would be available for business pre-order on March 11, with pick-up on March 13. The store wide launch
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2176-586: The GPRS Core Network , supports seamless handovers for both voice and data to cell towers with older network technology such as GSM , UMTS and CDMA2000 . The simpler architecture results in lower operating costs (for example, each E-UTRA cell will support up to four times the data and voice capacity supported by HSPA ). Most carriers supporting GSM or HSUPA networks can be expected to upgrade their networks to LTE at some stage. A complete list of commercial contracts can be found at: The following
2244-577: The Government of Nigeria through the telecommunications regulator, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) for partial compliance of regulatory guidelines to Mobile Network Operators to disconnect from their network, all improperly registered Subscribers Identification Modules (SIM). The commission exercised section 20(1) of the Telephone Subscribers regulation (TSR) law on MTN, leading to a calculated fine of $ 5.2 billion, according to
2312-544: The BlackBerry Z10 available for sale on June 18, 2013. In India, the Z10 was launched on February 25, 2013. In Taiwan, Taiwan Mobile made the Blackberry Z10 available on 15 April 2013. LTE (telecommunication) In telecommunications , long-term evolution ( LTE ) is a standard for wireless broadband communication for mobile devices and data terminals, based on the GSM / EDGE and UMTS / HSPA standards. It improves on those standards' capacity and speed by using
2380-532: The LTE standard. The ETSI has made no investigation on the correctness of the declarations however, so that "any analysis of essential LTE patents should take into account more than ETSI declarations." Independent studies have found that about 3.3 to 5 percent of all revenues from handset manufacturers are spent on standard-essential patents. This is less than the combined published rates, due to reduced-rate licensing agreements, such as cross-licensing. MTN Nigeria MTN Group Limited (formerly M-Cell )
2448-487: The Nigerian Foreign Minister stated at a press briefing on 4 September 2019, that MTN group along with Shoprite, stated that the targeted South African stores in Nigeria are "subsidiaries that are owned by Nigerians." And that "the property owned by Nigerians within Nigeria and the people working there are Nigerians." Lai Mohammed , Nigeria's Minister of Information and Culture, reported that some of
2516-426: The South African companies that were attacked in Nigeria have Nigerian investors owning significant amounts of stakes, and Nigerian employees. MTN has stated that they will continue to do business in Nigeria. In March 2019 MTN launched a WhatsApp channel to let its customers buy airtime and data bundles through the messaging app. Customers can also check their balances and store their credit or debit cards in
2584-865: The United States, Bell and Telus in Canada, au by KDDI in Japan, SK Telecom in South Korea and China Telecom / China Unicom in China) have announced instead they intend to migrate to LTE. The next version of LTE is LTE Advanced , which was standardized in March 2011. Services commenced in 2013. Additional evolution known as LTE Advanced Pro have been approved in year 2015. The LTE specification provides downlink peak rates of 300 Mbit/s, uplink peak rates of 75 Mbit/s and QoS provisions permitting
2652-494: The adoption of LTE, carriers will have to re-engineer their voice call network. Four different approaches sprang up: One additional approach which is not initiated by operators is the usage of over-the-top content (OTT) services, using applications like Skype and Google Talk to provide LTE voice service. Most major backers of LTE preferred and promoted VoLTE from the beginning. The lack of software support in initial LTE devices, as well as core network devices, however led to
2720-506: The app for future purchases. The service is provided by another South African company, Clickatell. In the same year, MTN launched a communication platform ayoba . MTN sold its Cyprus branch to Monaco Telecom for €260 million in July 2018. It was later re-branded as Epic in June 2019. In December 2019, former Deputy Finance Minister of the Government of South Africa , Mcebisi Jonas ,
2788-678: The caller and recipient's handsets, as well as networks, have to support the feature. The LTE standard covers a range of many different bands, each of which is designated by both a frequency and a band number: As a result, phones from one country may not work in other countries. Users will need a multi-band capable phone for roaming internationally. According to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute 's (ETSI) intellectual property rights (IPR) database, about 50 companies have declared, as of March 2012, holding essential patents covering
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2856-659: The carrier began using these frequencies for LTE service on networks built by Samsung , Alcatel-Lucent , and Nokia . As of March 2013, 156 commercial 4G LTE networks existed, including 142 LTE-FDD networks and 14 LTE-TDD networks. As of November 2013, the South Korean government planned to allow a fourth wireless carrier in 2014, which would provide LTE-TDD services, and in December 2013, LTE-TDD licenses were granted to China's three mobile operators, allowing commercial deployment of 4G LTE services. In January 2014, Nokia Solutions and Networks indicated that it had completed
2924-640: The case in October 2012 pending a US Supreme Court decision on the Alien Tort Statute , the US human rights law on which Turkcell's suit is based. In May 2013, Turkcell dropped its multibillion-dollar US lawsuit against MTN Group, citing a US Supreme Court ruling that hurt its case. On 27 November 2013, Turkcell resumed in Johannesburg. In 2015, the Nigerian subsidiary of MTN was fined by
2992-558: The chief executive officer, Sifiso Dabengwa, the Head of Nigeria Operation, Micheal Ikpoki and the Head of Cooperate Affairs, Akinwale Goodluck being replaced with Phuthuma Nhleko, Ferdi Moolman and Amina Oyegbola as new chairman, managing director and Head of Corporate and Regulation respectively. The new management employed a diplomatic measure between the government of the Republic of South Africa and its Nigerian counterpart to ameliorate
3060-503: The company appointed Rob Shuter as CEO , who was succeeded on 1 September 2020 by Ralph Mupita . In May 2023, in support of the company's "Ambition 2025" plan to structurally separate its fibre business; MTN rebranded subsidiary MTN GlobalConnect as Bayobab, operating as Bayobab Fibre and Bayobab Communication. On March 14, 2024, several undersea cables were cut, disrupting service for the Africa Coast to Europe. Bayobab repaired
3128-459: The company reported that its controlling shareholder was Johnnic Holdings, and the chairperson was Irene Charnley . In 2002, Phuthuma Nhleko became the CEO, replacing then-CEO Paul Edwards, who had invested in expansion to Nigeria. MTN's competitors in South Africa include Vodacom , Cell C and Telkom Mobile . In May 2008, Bharti Airtel , an India-based telecommunications company, explored
3196-490: The company's annual results call that the group was now considering spinning off its mobile money activities. "We see a separation and carve out of our fintech business as something that we have to do”. In April 2021, he estimated the value of the group's mobile money arm to at least US$ 5 to 6 billion. MTN South Africa provides GSM , UMTS , HSPA+ (21.1 Mbit/s), HSUPA (42 Mbit/s, 2100 MHz), VOIP , 3G , 4G , LTE and 5G services. On 1 December 2011, MTN became
3264-472: The constitution. The compliance audit carried out by the NCC on MTN network revealed unregistered 5.2 million customers lines were not deactivated as directed. This led to the NCC fining MTN with the sum of $ 1000 for each unregistered SIM according to the Telephone Subscribers regulation (TSR) law, which amounted to $ 5.2bn. What followed was major resignations among the top echelon of the organization including
3332-413: The cost of having to upgrade the entire voice call infrastructure. VoLTE may require Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (SRVCC) in order to be able to smoothly perform a handover to a 2G or 3G network in case of poor LTE signal quality. While the industry has standardized on VoLTE, early LTE deployments required carriers to introduce circuit-switched fallback as a stopgap measure. When placing or receiving
3400-482: The development, setting up a LTE-TDD interoperability lab with Huawei in China, as well as ST-Ericsson , Nokia, and Nokia Siemens (now Nokia Solutions and Networks ), which developed LTE-TDD base stations that increased capacity by 80 percent and coverage by 40 percent. Qualcomm also participated, developing the world's first multi-mode chip, combining both LTE-TDD and LTE-FDD, along with HSPA and EV-DO. Accelleran,
3468-649: The disabled ACE and WASC lines during the following week. On 31 May 2018, MTN Ghana launched its initial public offering (IPO). The IPO closed on 31 July 2019. A total of up to 4,637,394,533 ordinary shares of MTN Ghana, representing 35% of its equity was offered to qualifying applicants. This was part of the agreement between MTN Ghana and Ghana's National Communications Authority (NCA) in November, 2015 for MTN Ghana to deploy 4G LTE mobile services to its customers in Ghana. Among other methods of payments, MTN mobile money
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#17327835746903536-605: The global introduction of the technology as quickly as possible. The LTE standard was finalized in December 2008, and the first publicly available LTE service was launched by TeliaSonera in Oslo and Stockholm on December 14, 2009, as a data connection with a USB modem. The LTE services were launched by major North American carriers as well, with the Samsung SCH-r900 being the world's first LTE Mobile phone starting on September 21, 2010, and Samsung Galaxy Indulge being
3604-483: The market. On 30 October 2020, MTN made public the sale of their shares in the e-commerce brand Jumia . The sale was worth 142.31 million dollars. In February 2021, the MTN Group partnered with Mastercard to ensure safe and secure global e-commerce payments of their customer base in 16 African countries. A Mastercard virtual payment platform, that is linked to MTN MoMo (Mobile Money) wallets makes this possible. In March 2021, MTN CEO Ralph Mupita announced during
3672-497: The name Advanced eXtended Global Platform (AXGP), and marketed as SoftBank 4G ( ja ). The AXGP band was previously used for Willcom 's PHS service, and after PHS was discontinued in 2010 the PHS band was re-purposed for AXGP service. In the U.S., Clearwire planned to implement LTE-TDD, with chip-maker Qualcomm agreeing to support Clearwire's frequencies on its multi-mode LTE chipsets. With Sprint's acquisition of Clearwire in 2013,
3740-452: The original 3G technologies, ITU-R later decided that LTE and the aforementioned technologies can be called 4G technologies. The LTE Advanced standard formally satisfies the ITU-R requirements for being considered IMT-Advanced. To differentiate LTE Advanced and WiMAX-Advanced from current 4G technologies, ITU has defined the latter as "True 4G". LTE stands for Long-Term Evolution and is
3808-466: The possibility of buying MTN Group. Reliance Communications was also in talks with MTN for a "potential combination of their businesses". In July, the two companies ended discussions regarding the merger. In June 2008, MTN Group agreed to purchase Verizon Business South Africa, which was a provider of data services to customers in South Africa and four other African countries. The acquisition
3876-668: The second cellular provider to introduce 4G and LTE in South Africa They were also the first network operator in South Africa to launch a live public 5G network available in Johannesburg and Cape Town on 30 June 2020. MTN acquired Investcom , mainly under the Areeba and Spacetel brands. As of Q2 2024, MTN is active in: Supersonic is an Internet service provider that was founded in Johannesburg , South Africa in 2018 by MTN Group in to provide FTTH (Fibre) Internet services to South African consumers. SuperSonic
3944-483: The touchscreen Z10 prioritized over the Q10 which had a physical keyboard. Boublen was then responsible for and received "criticism for the marketing campaign that supported the Z10 launch, including a confusing Super Bowl advertisement which some board members hated". Both Tear and Boublen were ousted on November 25, 2013 by new CEO John S. Chen , whom weeks earlier had replaced Thorsten Heins . The BlackBerry Z10 used
4012-407: The turn of the millennium. A further goal was the redesign and simplification of the network architecture to an IP -based system with significantly reduced transfer latency compared with the 3G architecture. The LTE wireless interface is incompatible with 2G and 3G networks, so that it must be operated on a separate radio spectrum . The idea of LTE was first proposed in 1998, with the use of
4080-450: The work is aimed at simplifying the architecture of the system, as it transitions from the existing UMTS circuit + packet switching combined network, to an all-IP flat architecture system. E-UTRA is the air interface of LTE. Its main features are: The LTE standard supports only packet switching with its all-IP network. Voice calls in GSM, UMTS and CDMA2000 are circuit switched , so with
4148-772: The world's first LTE smartphone starting on February 10, 2011, both offered by MetroPCS , and the HTC ThunderBolt offered by Verizon starting on March 17 being the second LTE smartphone to be sold commercially. In Canada, Rogers Wireless was the first to launch LTE network on July 7, 2011, offering the Sierra Wireless AirCard 313U USB mobile broadband modem, known as the "LTE Rocket stick" then followed closely by mobile devices from both HTC and Samsung. Initially, CDMA operators planned to upgrade to rival standards called UMB and WiMAX , but major CDMA operators (such as Verizon , Sprint and MetroPCS in
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#17327835746904216-711: Was appointed as the board chairperson of the company. In August 2020, MTN decided to sell its shares in Syria , Afghanistan and Yemen , and to divest its 49% minority holding in Irancell over time. The company's decision was based on the fact that their assets in the Middle East contributed less than 4% to group earnings in the first half of the year. MTN Group has transferred its majority 82.8% shareholding in MTN Yemen to Emerald International Investment, thereby exiting
4284-480: Was available in black or white colour variants. A limited red edition was available for qualified app developers. In Canada, the BlackBerry Z10 was available at Bell Mobility (including Virgin Mobile Canada ), Mobilicity , Rogers Wireless (including Fido ), SaskTel , Telus Mobility (including Koodo Mobile ), Wind Mobile , and Vidéotron Mobile . It went on sale February 5, 2013. MTS mobility started
4352-452: Was completed on 28 February 2009. On 26 June 2009, MTN Group's subsidiary merged with Belgacom International Carrier Services (BICS), a subsidiary of Belgacom . The combined subsidiary functioned as the international gateway for carrier services of MTN. In October 2012, MTN announced a partnership with Afrihost to provide DSL Broadband services in Africa. In November 2012, South African holding company Shanduka Group acquired
4420-684: Was included as a payment option for the MTN share offer subscription. This was the first time mobile money had been used as a payment method in an IPO. The current CEO of MTN Ghana is Mr. Selorm Adadevoh . On 23 February 2017, Nigerian protestors attacked a MTN office in Abuja , Nigeria as a counterattack due to violence targeted against Nigerians in South Africa. In September 2019 MTN began closing stores in Nigeria and some of their stores in Johannesburg , South Africa due to rioting, looting, and attacks on some of their facilities. Geoffrey Onyeama
4488-482: Was investigating and denied involvement, saying that it complies with US export laws. Hewlett-Packard issued a similar statement. MTN Group denied the allegations, saying that it complied with US sanctions against Iran . Turkey's Turkcell filed a $ 4.2 billion lawsuit in Washington, D.C., in 2012 alleging the company used bribery to win a mobile licence in Iran that was first awarded to Turkcell. The court delayed
4556-459: Was not supported (international model), BlackBerry released the Z10 with the Texas Instruments OMAP 4470 ( SoC ) which had a dual-core CPU running at 1.5 GHz and a PowerVR SGX 544 GPU . It used a STE M5730 modem. The outer housing of the Z10 frame was made of plastic combined with an internal stainless steel metal frame, while the back cover was made of plastic and protected by rubber finish. The on/off and volume button were made of metal. It
4624-489: Was scheduled for March 27. On March 11, AT&T announced a March 22 release date for the device, with pre-orders beginning March 12. Verizon announced pre-ordered for March 14, with a release date of March 28. Mexican Telcel announced pre-orders for Z10 on March 21 on Facebook and finally released on April 2. In Australia , major telcos Optus and Telstra announced their intention to stock on March 25 and March 26 respectively. In New Zealand , Vodafone NZ made
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