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Another year passed and another crisis scared the industry. With ups and downs, with profit and losses, 2009 is still another year with notable first in telco industry, the most important ones being:

• Freezing LTE as Rel.8 and the world’s first commercial 4G/LTE network - TeliaSonera built with Huawei (more about this here)
• The rise of Jajah and the acquisition by O2 demonstrated that there is still market space after Skype
• First GPON network and in general GPON gaining momentum surpassing FTTH as interest at least

LG developed the first mobile LTE chip capable of 100Mbps DL / 50 Mbps UL. In test they did 60 Mbps / 20 Mbps.

“Now that LG has developed and tested the first 4G handset modem, a commercially viable LTE handset is on the horizon,” said Dr. Woo Hyun Paik, CTO of LG Electronics. “This latest breakthrough gives us a strong technology advantage that we will use to bolster our industry leadership.”

Dr. Paik added, “Our successful development of this LTE handset modem signals the start of the 4G mobile communications market. LG will continue to advance this technology and develop further technologies to maintain global leadership.”

Even if it sounds like the good, the bad and the ugly, this could be one of the winning combination in the industry. The idea comes from Bill Huang from China Mobile apparently. And it’s not bad at all. The vast majority of 3G licenses comes with a TDD “bonus”, not used so far. And why not use TDD spectrum for LTE capacity coverage? It could be named TD-LTE. 

Combine this with femtocell concept, and you will have the new capacity/coverage/price killer combination. With a promised bill of materials of less than $100 for an LTE femtocell in 2010/2001 this is orders of magnitude cheaper than anything you could use today for capacity coverage for indoor, metro, etc.

I have thought this almost one year ago, that you could use femto for indoor coverage, not necessarily for content rich capacity backup. If this would be cheap enough you could extend the indoor capacity for 3G/LTE spectrum very easily. Just put it indoor somewhere, plug it in your FTTx/DSL and that’s it.

The Treaty of Lisbon (also known as the Reform Treaty) is a treaty designed to streamline the workings of the European Union (EU) with amendments to the Treaty on European Union (TEU, Maastricht) and the Treaty establishing the European Community (TEC, Rome), the latter being renamed Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) in the process. The stated aim of the treaty is “to complete the process started by the Treaty of Amsterdam and by the Treaty of Nice with a view to enhancing the efficiency and democratic legitimacy of the Union and to improving the coherence of its action.”

Prominent changes introduced with the Treaty of Lisbon include more qualified majority voting in the EU Council, increased involvement of the European Parliament in the legislative process through extended codecision with the EU Council, reduction of the number ofCommissioners from 27 to 18, eliminating the pillar system, and the creation of a President of the European Union and a High Representative for Foreign Affairs to present a united position on EU policies. If ratified, the Treaty of Lisbon would also make the Union’s human rights charter, the Charter of Fundamental Rights, legally binding.

The Treaty of Lisbon was signed on 13 December 2007 and was planned to have been ratified by all the members of EU by the end of 2008, so it could come into force in 2009. 25 of the total 27 member states have completed the ratification, with Czech Republic still pending. However, the rejection of the Treaty on 12 June 2008 by the Irish electorate means that the treaty cannot currently come into force.

Now one can imagine that behind this were some groups which can further profit from this. And we can imagine also the damage done by Dublin by vote against it. And now the dioxin scandal. Dioxin is always in the meat, because it passes from the treated grass to animals, in milk or meat. But there are some limits of contamination. In the EU press there is no word about this, only that the pork meat from Ireland is infested with dioxin. This means very big looses for pork meat producers since is just before the Christmas, the biggest pork meat consuming in the year in EU.

Could it be that the groups behind the Lisbon Treaty orchestrated this? Of course not.

Maybe you are wondering too about the roots of global crisis. Maybe you have red a little about other similar crisis, like the 1907, 1920, 1929 ones. The last one was called the great depression. Now we don’t want to call it like this because it’s a bad word. It remembers us of what people had to endure.

We have a cash shortage, but where did all the money went to? And from where did the come in the first place? From Federal Reserve, of course, and from national banks around the world. Federal Reserve borrows the money with interest, it can grow the quantity of money on the market (global market, indirectly) and it can call it back.

Calling it back will force the banks to call back the loans too, to gather as much cash as they could, thus increasing the interest rates, forcing people to sell their property, shortening cash flow for companies and going to bankruptcy in the end.

Who would gain profit from this you will ask. The banking cartel. They will buy cheap companies, governments, banks. But wait, this is conspiracy theory you will say. It is not. Take a look at the Bilderberg Group. What do they want? Power. More power. Absolute power. Behind this intent are the people David Rockefeller famously identified at a 1991 meeting of the Bilderberg Group, when he said: “The supra-national sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.” No one needs conspiracy theories when the perpetrators are this blatant. 

There is another thing, very profitable for the bankers. War. And there is a thing much more profitable than a war. A big war! And for a big war you need money. Lots of money. As Einstein said once, “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones”.

Keep the eyes on Iran, the vast resources of Siberia, and China.