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3G Press Archive December 2005
As expected, NTT DoCoMo has finally launched its own its own credit card brand.
“With this step we have dramatically extended our potential global markets and client reach in one scoop!
Ericsson's HSDPA solution is now in operation in 15 countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and North America.
3 UK announced that will be stepping down from his role as Chief Operating Officer at the end of 2005.
O2 announced it has partnered with IN-FUSIO to provide award-winning mobile games to i-mode consumers in the UK.
Actimagine software video codec and DRM solutions are being used to deliver full length movies on memory cards for mobile devices.
Nokia announced that its Networks business group has successfully completed a High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) call,
NMS Communications announced that Italy's leading UMTS mobile operator, 3 Italy, has launched its ringback service built on NMS's MyCaller and deployed as part of Ericsson's Personalized Greeting Service (PGS) offering.
Ericsson and MTN South Africa are first in demonstrating how 3G networks using WCDMA technology enable new mobile broadband services as well as a cost efficient fixed broadband alternative, when combining HSDPA and Fixed Wireless Terminals.
Research and Markets has announced the addition of Defending Against Fixed-Mobile Substitution: Detailed Operator Case Studies to their offering.
Hutchison 3G UK Limited (“3”), the UK’s leading mobile media company, today welcomed the ruling by the Competition Appeal Tribunal (“CAT”).
LG Electronics, (LG) is proud to announce the launch of the UK’s slimmest 3G clamshell phone with powerful MP3 feature, the LG U880.
Fulfilling a commitment made last year to jointly develop 3G solutions with NTT DoCoMo, Texas Instruments announced it has sampled a cost-competitive, multi-mode UMTS chipset developed with NTT DoCoMo to serve the worldwide 3G handset market.
Motorola announced that following a successful initial six-month trial of its Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) solution, TeliaSonera Denmark is moving to phase two of the trial project
An activist has chained himself to the fence of an antenna installation today, to prevent the mounting of UMTS (3G) antennas. His group wants an absolute ban of UMTS antennas from the town of Spijkenisse near Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Horsebridge Network Systems announced the launch of its Next Generation Sync product portfolio, providing mobile operators and next generation network equipment manufacturers
3 Italia and the Profit Group have announced the signing of an agreement for the acquisition of Channel 7 by 3 Italia.
Visto Corporation announced that Vodafone UK, the UK's leading mobile phone operator, has selected Visto Mobile(TM) with ConstantSync(TM) technology to power its Vodafone Business Email offering.
The new DVB-T Diversity Test Receiver R&S TSM-DVB has been designed for mobile coverage measurements in DVB-T networks.
This world-beating performance pushed the number of GSM subscribers to over 1.56 billion by end September 2005.
In line with the roll out of Hong Kong’s lightest and slimmest 3G video mobile phone and 3’s reinforced music content, 3 Hong Kong produced a new TV commercial titled “Dance”,
Pantech announced plans for the launch of two new models, the IM-8600 5 mega-pixel camera phone and the IM-8700 F2F (‘face-to-face’) telephony handset, in Korea.
Nokia and 3 Scandinavia are trialling Nokia Push to talk over Cellular (PoC) service in the Swedish market. With push to talk, people can use their mobile phones like walkie-talkies, communicating with a selected group or with individuals at the push of a button.
Texas Instruments introduced the industry's first single-chip assisted global positioning system (A-GPS) solution in 90 nanometer (nm) process technology for mobile phones.
If the cellular industry has its way, we should soon have access to live TV transmissions on our 3G mobile phones.
The R&S CRTU-WC52 software option now allows the tried-and-tested Protocol Tester R&S CRTU-W to be used for tests on A-GPS-capable 3G mobile phones.
With 3G beginning to take off in Africa, telecoms system supplier C3 Ltd of Cambridge, UK is working with Atlantic Telecom of Johannesburg to deliver value-added telephone services in Southern Africa.
Ericsson and 3 Italy have announced a five-year agreement for hosted Ringback Tones, based on Ericsson's Personalized Greeting Service.
"A1 now presents Austrian television directly on the UMTS mobile," says Dr. Hannes Ametsreiter, Director of Marketing, Distribution and Customer Services for mobilkom austria.
Vodafone has extended its VPA product family to include a UMTS-capable model.
Innovative Italian mobile operator WIND has selected network quality of service (QoS) monitoring experts CommProve to maximise the performance of its 3G network.
World leading mobile operators including Cingular Wireless, Hutchison Group, O2, Orange, Smart Communications, Telefónica Móviles, T-Mobile and Vodafone
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. and its eight regional subsidiaries announced today that the companies will launch a service that enables corporate customers to confirm the whereabouts of registered 3G FOMA® GPS handsets (
In addition, DoCoMo has established the Kids' Advisory Board of people with expertise in children's issues, who will advise the company on the development of products and services beneficial to children.
Ireland has a new fourth 3G mobile licence holder. The Irish Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) has announced its decision to award the final next generation mobile phone franchise to newcomer Smart Mobile.
The Motorola E770v is Vodafone's latest addition to its range of UMTS mobile phones at extra attractive prices.
As the huge WiMAX marketing machine churns away, we will sift through the hype to understand the reality.
ITV, Britain’s largest commercial broadcaster, and 3, the UK’s leading mobile media company, have today announced a far reaching output deal that delivers Britain’s most popular shows to mobile.
Nokia announced sales start of the Nokia N90 in the U.S. The first mobile device to feature Carl Zeiss optics and a range of advanced camera functions in addition to superb quality video, the Nokia N90 is set to transform the mobile photography market.
netZAP has awarded Alcatel a contract for commercial expansion of its trial network in Jakarta. Alcatel will design and roll-out the network with UMTS TD-CDMA equipment from IPWireless.
According to IDC's Western European Quarterly Mobile Phone Market Tracker, the Western European mobile phone market (consisting of traditional mobile phones and converged devices) maintained healthy double digit growth in 3Q05 as shipments increased by 16% year on year
While Sharp’s reputation in the world of consumer electronics is unquestioned, it was largely an unknown quantity in the UK mobile phone market until those wily foxes at Vodafone successfully launched the GX10 in November 2002.
PCTEL, Inc. announced the commercial availability of HSDPA measurement capabilities in its SeeGull(TM) WCDMA and WCDMA/GSM (3-band) scanner solutions.
Vodafone K.K. announced that as of 21 November 2005 its 3G subscribers exceeded 2 million. The achievement comes approximately 7 months after surpassing the 1 million mark in April 2005 and approximately 3 years after the service launch in December 2002.
Strategy Analytics released, "LG Leads Customer Satisfaction Index Though All Users Give Failing Grades on Content Downloading," which analyzes mobile device buyer satisfaction across 20 critical product attributes in the US and W. Europe.
Tim Lunn from PA Consulting Group - the leading international management, systems and technology consultancy
Actix announced that O2 Ireland has selected Actix’ 3G performance engineering solutions, backed by Actix training and engineering services, to optimize its 3G network.
Acme Packet announced that Telefonica Moviles Espana, Group Telefonica Moviles' mobile operator in Spain, is using Acme Packet's Net-Net session border controllers ( see above ) to deliver its new 3G video telephony services.
Panasonic Mobile has begun delivery of its "prosolid II" proprietary mobile handset to NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
NTT DoCoMo reported that StarHub announced that they will launch i-mode® service in Singapore beginning tomorrow, November 19.
"Click to Meet is an innovative product that works seamlessly with Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005, and fully supports all of our new and existing conference control capabilities in Microsoft Office Communicator,
Vodafone K.K. today announces that it has completed development of the Vodafone 804SH, a new 3G model by Sharp, which will be marketed in Japan from mid-January 2006.
The tried-and-tested RF Conformance Test System R&S TS8950G has now validated EGPRS/EDGE RF test cases for mobile phones of multislot class 10.
Samsung's S3FJ91L IC has a built-in 16KB Static RAM to enable easy upgrades and the introduction of various applications by software developers.
The CDMA Development Group (CDG) schedule to be published in the first quarter of 2006. Revision B is a further enhancement to the CDMA2000
Artificial Life announced the release of its first massive multi-user 3G mobile game called "Virtual Penguins."
The National IT and Telecom Agency (NITA) of Denmark has published an Information Memorandum regarding the auction of a 3G licence.
3 UK announced the expansion of its ‘ThreeStore’ portfolio with a new store design that will bring third generation mobile services to life on the high-street.
Royal Philips Electronics announced a new Design Center located in Shanghai focused on enabling handset manufacturers to develop ultra low-cost (ULC) phones for emerging markets.
In a move that reinforces the place of mobile as a provider of rural, broadband connectivity, Telstra this week announced that it will roll-out a W-CDMA network that will cover 98% of Australia’s population.
Smart Telecom is delighted that the Irish telecommunications regulator, ComReg, announced yesterday afternoon that Smart Telecom is to be offered the fourth and ast Irish 3G mobile licence,
ACCESS Co Ltd. announced that they have partnered to provide a 4Mbps infrared communications solution for mobile handsets.
We expected more from LG but the fact is the U8360 remains the workhorse of the 3G fraternity. Click photo for full article.
RAD Data Communications has announced that at GSM Africa 2005, to be held November 30-December 1 in Cape Town, it will unveil several unique solutions for reducing carrier expenses by maximising cellular backhaul traffic over expensive satellite links.
QUALCOMM Incorporated announced the Company has achieved HSDPA data rates of 3.6 Mbps with major infrastructure vendors using test terminals based on QUALCOMM's Mobile Station Modem (MSM) MSM6280 solution.
RealNetworks unveiled its next generation Helix Server for mobile enterprises.
We expected more from LG but the fact is the U8360 remains the workhorse of the 3G fraternity.
The Bahamas Telecommunications Company Limited (BTC), the leading wireless telecommunications operator on the island chain, today announced it has selected Lucent Technologies
Azaire Networks announced that Chunghwa Mobile will deploy Azaire Networks' IP Converged Network Platform (IP-CNP).
The Isle of Man, located in the British Isles, announced that O2 successfully launched Europe's first commercial, super-fast third generation (3G) mobile data network earlier this month.
Vodafone shares are down by over 10% after the company reported its H1 results to September 2005.
RADVISION announced the introduction of the latest version of its SCOPIA 3G Video Gateway for use when deploying rich media solutions in new or existing networks.
Hutchison 3G Austria (H3G) announced that it will launch the first mobile Videomail service in Austria one month ahead of Christmas, just in time to send festive video-greeting to friends and relatives.
CSL announced the launch of Asia's first 3G "Video Sharing Service", enabling 1O1O and One2Free customers to share real-time or pre-recorded video clips spontaneously during normal voice calls. This person-to-person mobile video service not only enriches communication but also offers an enhanced 3G experience.
Samsung will demonstrate WiBro (Wireless Broadband; Korean brand name of Mobile WiMAX) mobile phones and systems at the “2005 APEC IT Exhibition” during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). Various applications such as broadcasting, home networking, video telephony, VOD, and navigations will be presented at the exhibition with Samsung’s latest WiBro (Mobile WiMAX) handsets.
Top Global, a leader in wireless convergence systems, announced today the new MobileBridge MB8000 which supports 802.11a/b/g. Top Global has developed and patented the flexible MobileBridge™ platform which serves as a gateway/router that links 3G and WLAN/LAN networks
Wireless industry trade association 3G Americas reports that the GSM family of wireless technologies--GSM, GPRS, EDGE and UMTS/HSDPA--added more than 112 million new customers in three months (Q3 2005), increasing its global market share to 77.6% with more than 1.6 billion customers.
Aeroflex has launched the world’s first commercially available test mobile providing full support for the latest 3GPP Release 6 High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) wireless technology.
Warner Music is the third major record label to supply fill-length audio and video tracks to its 3 million customers. Madonna's latest single "Hung Up" is also being premiered exclusively on 3 to launch the partnership.
Sophisticated 3G and exclusive mobile video services will form the bedrock of a groundbreaking package of mobile services provided to ITV by Mobile Interactive Group (MIG) for the new series of I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! beginning on November 20th on ITV 1 and ITV 2.
Icera announced availability of its first Adaptive Wireless™ HSDPA Datacard Platform, which is enabling cellular datacard vendors to be first to market with next generation 3GPP Release 5 multimode HSDPA products.
Telstra has chosen Ericsson to provide a national 3G/WCDMA network, based on WCDMA 850 MHz.
TELUS Mobility launched its national Wireless High Speed Network, offering clients in five major urban centres across Canada access to the Internet, e-mail servers and other data networks at speeds at least six times faster than previous mobile data services.
With the new nanoEDGE base stations from Siemens Communications, it is now possible for the first time to provide full wireless coverage with EDGE technology even in what used to be shadowed areas inside buildings
The 3G World Congress in Hong Kong November 16-18 is the first large mobile event where the industry can finally say that 3G has come of age.
The three-megapixel barrier has finally been breached courtesy of the Sharp 903. Is it time to ditch your standalone digital camera and finally dig that convergence trip?
A strategic alliance between the world's largest music company, Universal Music Group (UMG), and the world's largest mobile telecommunications network company,
Option N.V. announced that Optus has chosen the GlobeTrotter FUSION QUAD and the GlobeTrotter 3G QUAD as cornerstones of the network operator’s large-scale commercial launch of broadband wireless data cards in Sydney,
Nokia supported Optus' 3G services launch in Australia providing the behind-the-scenes network infrastructure and turnkey services as well as assisting Optus to develop 3G consumer applications.
It seems that Sharp can't launch a camera phone these days without setting photographic standards for all to follow.
Mobile media company 3 is leading the development of TV over mobile with the launch of Dubplate Drama‚ the World’s first-ever interactive viewer-led TV programme.
The Mobile TV provider Kamera will launch a live streamed TV-channel through Vodafone Sweden’s network.
Jamba! and Proximus announced today that Proximus will use Jamba!'s digital content services to provide customers with premium music downloads.
The Radio Regulatory Council of the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) have made a recommendation to allocate the 2GHz spectrum to IPMobile Incorporated ("IPMobile").
Vodafone today made the first data call on 3.5G, also known as HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) as part of the testing program of this important technology.
ZTE Corporation has clinched a WCDMA contract with Indigo Tajikistan, a joint venture belonging to the American multinational carrier MCT.
Opportunities abound for enhancing wireless networks by adding handset diversity antennas, base station smart antennas, MIMO with spatial multiplexing, and interference cancellation technology (ICT).

Sony Ericsson tasted 3G success with the V800. Now it hopes to hit the mainstream with its elegant and pocket-friendly K600i.
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. and its eight regional subsidiaries announced that subscribers to DoCoMo's mobile phone services exceeded 50 million today,
3 announced details of its Christmas offers including a new contract promotion featuring double downloads, two new pay-as-you-go vouchers and a range of price plans available exclusively online,
Vodafone K.K. today announces that on 11 November 2005 it will commence nationwide sales of the Mobile FeliCa smart card equipped Vodafone 703SHf 3G handset by Sharp.
Option N.V. announced that it has shipped its 1 millionth 3G UMTS wireless data card.
The CDMA Development Group (CDG) announced today that the number of CDMA2000® subscribers surpassed 200 million worldwide in September,
The 3G market in China has great promise, but faces much uncertainty, including the government's developing policies on the high-speed wireless technology, reports In-Stat (http://www.in-stat.com).
A recent survey by Harris Interactive shows that although 3G (i.e., third generation) mobile phones have reached a nine percent (9%) share of the mobile phone market(1) in Great Britain, 41 percent of 3G users are only using their phone for talking and texting. Furthermore, some users are not even aware of their phone's 3G capabilities.
Samsung introduced 5 new mobile phones for the European market. The average of the newly unveiled phones are under 15mm and offer the latest multimedia features, such as music playback capability, megapixel camera and Bluetooth connectivity.
Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) are in a second phase of growth, made possible by the advent of 3G mobile phone services.
Hong Kong based Artificial Life, Inc. (OTC: ALIF) a provider of leading edge mobile 3G technology and applications today announced that it launches its flagship and award winning 3G product: “V-girl™ – your virtual girlfriend” with 3 Hong Kong today.
Aplix Corporation announces that all six models in NTT DoCoMo's 902i Series of FOMA mobile phones will be preloaded with the DoJa platform jointly developed by the two companies.
LG Electronics and SavaJe Technologies announce that LG Electronics is the first company in the world to complete development of a handset using SavaJe OS(TM), SavaJe Technologies' Java(TM) Platform,
CoWare(R) Inc., the leading supplier of system-level electronic design automation (EDA) software and services announced the availability of the High Speed Downlink Packet Access ( HSDPA )
Since its launch, the LG Fashion Phone has been well received by trendsetters.
Mobaila announced MyVideoBlog, the new service for all “3” Italian customers to create personal video diary just by placing a videocall to the short code 4380 with a 3G mobile videophone.
ITN Multimedia won the top award in the prestigious Best Content Service category, at the World Communication Awards in central London.
While the wireless world readies for broad scale deployment of HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access), 3G technology being deployed by GSM Operators ideally capable of up to1 Mb per second data throughput
A new NOP survey commissioned by Olista, the service experience assurance company, reveals that users who encounter problems in using new mobile data services will simply give up rather than seek assistance.
3G equals higher speed on the mobile network. Both for the laptop PC and for the mobile phone.
Motorola released three latest findings from its HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) trial results in Europe.
Bell Canada, Canada's national leader in communications, today unveiled Bell Mobility's new leading-edge mobile data network,
BroadbandTV Group aims to operate and provide a unique enhanced 3G interactive video gateway for 3G network operators, television broadcasters, content publishers, content producers and advertisers.
As the first mobile operator in Hungary T-Mobile, the largest Hungarian mobile company, launched the 3G service and is now preparing the start of the even faster service HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access).
Following a call by a group of major suppliers for a European Commission investigation into alleged anti-competitive behaviour by Qualcomm,
The Taipei-based Market Intelligence Center (MIC) held an international forum on 3G services under the auspices of the Information Technology and Intelligence Service (ITIS), a government program to promote high-tech industries in Taiwan.
The hardware and software upgrades of the first commercial network
sites represents a major milestone in the program to offer HSDPA and is the latest in a series of achievements in the HSDPA area between Vodafone K.K. and Ericsson.
New research suggests that 3G mobile services are now beginning to take off, however instead of supposedly new “killer applications”
After having demonstrated High-Speed Download Packet Access (HSDPA) to corporate customers in August this year,
Starting on November 1st SK Telecom it will release the PMP handset (Model No: SCH-V700 produced by Samsung Electronics) that lets users enjoy both audio and streaming video through a mobile phone.
Analysys International predicts that PTT (push-to-talk) will become the new hotspot of 3G applications with user numbers to reach 8 million by year 2009 in its newly released focus report, Focus Report on China PTT Market 2005.
Texas Instruments announced that TI's OMAP2420 application processor has been selected for the new NTT DoCoMo's FOMA 902i series 3G handsets to provide advanced multimedia capabilities.
Users of data services on GSM/EDGE mobile networks are generating increased monthly revenues (ARPU) for operators.
The Predictions identify key market changes for the coming year, including: fierce competition that will leave only five handset manufacturers standing, new business models enabled by converging access technologies and new mobile entertainment brands.
Qpass, whose software powers the marketplace for digital media and services, has identified mobile video downloads as a significant growth area in Europe.
Danish operator TDC Mobil has extended the 3G network contract it originally signed with Ericsson in 2002.