LTE Africa 2015: Accelerating the Growth of Africa’s 4G LTE Future

2015 has been an exciting year for Africa, with LTE 4G services now provided in 24 African countries, and many more operators expected to launch commercial 4G LTE services by the end of the year. As LTE subscriptions in Africa continue to grow, and with 50% of the region’s population expected to be covered by LTE networks by 2018, LTE Africa 2015 (17-19 November) will return at a time when it has never been more crucial for operators to ensure they have the best plans for the future strategic deployment of LTE networks.

Co-located with AfricaCom in CCITC Cape Town, South Africa, LTE Africa will bring together leading LTE industry experts and operators to discuss the key issue of strategic deployment for 4G LTE and VoLTE services going forward in Africa. With over 4000 operators in attendance and more operator case studies than ever before, LTE Africa will provide the best platform for sharing key information crucial for revolutionising Africa’s digital future.

Currently few African operators of 4G LTE networks have deployed Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE), the rising LTE standard for voice communication. As such, even networks offering LTE smartphones are still using GSM or 3G circuit-switched networks to carry voice traffic. The deployment of VoLTE will be one of the biggest technological advances Africa has seen, and so operators’ deployment strategies must be ready to handle this quantum leap.

Anera wins award for “Top Innovator” at LTE North America 2014

Ryley MacKenzie, CEO of Anera collects his prize for Top Innovator at LTE North America

Anera, an SDN and NFV solution provider, was crowned the winner of this year’s Innovation Accelerator at LTE North America in Dallas.

The Innovation Accelerator aims to discover the most exciting start-ups in the market today. This year, hundreds of entries poured in prior to the event, and were subsequently wittled down to a shortlist of 3 companies by our judging panel. Those three companies then pitched their services to a panel of expert judges and the LTE North America attendees.

Press release: Elitecore announces successful LTE rollout at MWC

Elitecore Technologies, a leading provider of Integrated Policy, Charging and Revenue Management solutions today announced that its LTE Revenue and Customer Management platform has been deployed by Lanka Bell – Sri Lanka to roll out next-generation services like prepaid-postpaid broadband, broadband data burst (LTE + Wi-Fi), VOIP, Wi-Fi Hotspot, ILL, SIP & VPN.

Vaibhav Mehta, SVP Business Development, Elitecore Technologies said, “Elitecore platform enables operators to offer Greenfield LTE services without disturbing the current plans while ensuring cost-effective optimization of their network and greatly improving time-to-market via smooth and faster alignment with the existing third party vendor components in the LIVE ecosystem.