| 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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SoftBank Mobile taps Ericsson for policy (RCR Mobile Minute)
