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SoftBank Mobile taps Ericsson for policy (RCR Mobile Minute)

Mobile Minute:
Keeping data flowing in even in the most crowded environments is an important goal for Japan’s SoftBank Mobile, and to that end the company has partnered with Ericsson. SoftBank Mobile will deploy Ericsson’s “mobility-based” policy solution, which directly connects the mobility management entity (MME) to the policy controller. Information about the user and his/her connection quality can go directly to the policy server, and policy to control the user experience goes directly back to the MME, bypassing the service gateway. Ericsson notes that offloading the gateway will reduce network signaling traffic. SoftBank Mobile says that dynamically allocating radio resources on a per-user basis will help optimize spectrum. SoftBank, of course, is the majority owner of Sprint, and much of Sprint’s network runs on Ericsson equipment. However, Sprint did not choose Ericsson as a vendor for its current Sprint Spark LTE rollout. Ericsson is the network manager for that project.
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Martha DeGrasse
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Martha DeGrasse is the publisher of Network Builder Reports (nbreports.com). At RCR, Martha authored more than 20 in-depth feature reports and more than 2,400 news articles. She also created the Mobile Minute and the 5 Things to Know Today series. Prior to joining RCR Wireless News, Martha produced business and technology news for CNN and Dow Jones in New York and managed the online editorial group at Hoover’s Online before taking a number of years off to be at home when her children were young. Martha is the board president of Austin's Trinity Center and is a member of the Women's Wireless Leadership Forum.