J-Phone
will delay its 3G wireless service to December 2002 due to delays in
developing new phones, loacal paper outlined.
European handset makers are working on new technology that would allow
mobile phone users to make calls from anywhere in the world. J-Phone
is delaying until the handsets for the technology exist. J-Phone currently
offer a trial version of its 3G service to approx. 200 subscribers in
the key Tokyo region.
NTT
DoCoMo, was the first to launch its 3G in the Tokyo area in October
2000 and begun expanding it to major cities nationwide. KDDI, the nation's
second-biggest wireless company, started offering 3G mobile services
this month via its AU service. 3G didn't take-off as well as planned
with NTT DoCoMo had subscribers totalling approx. 95,000 at end of March
2002 which is less than of the 150,000 it had projected.
The
SCH-X590 has all the standard features of a high-end mobile phone. These
include a 40-chord progression polyphonic ring tone and support for online
multimedia services
The new capability allows operators to launch highly personalized advanced
mobile data services that exploit the full capabilities of 2.5G and 3G
mobile devices
Tenzing
Communications, Inc., the leading inflight connectivity provider, today
announced the first successful live demonstration of airborne two-way
short messaging service to mobile phones worldwide.
Alcatel
today announced it has set up a cooperation with Orange Romania, with
the objective to develop 3G/UMTS mobile communications business in Romania.
The
alliance makes Moviso and Xing the de facto leading mobile media providers
in Japan and the U.S., and is the first international provision of 16-voice
ringtones for U.S. mobile phones.
Pelephone,
Israel's second largest wireless operator, has selected Nortel Networks
to build the country's first CDMA2000 1X third generation (3G) digital
wireless network, the companies announced today.
Samsung
Electronics has completed development of the world’s first CDMA2000
1X mobile phone (model: SCH-X590) with color display and embedded charge-coupled
device (CCD) camera.
Moving
to speed the development of next-generation (2.5G and 3G) smart
phones, Motorola's DragonBall microprocessor will port to all versions
of the Symbian operating system (OS).
The
global market for wireless operations support systems (OSSes)--the IT
infrastructure that performs customer care, provisioning, and management
functions in wireless networks--will exceed $12.4 billion this year.
Picsel
Technologies and Samsung Electronics announced today that Samsung has
licensed Picsel's Interactive File Viewer (IFV) based on its innovative
ePAGE(TM) architecture to deliver next generation/multimedia
Dutchtone,
the Orange SA subsidiary in The Netherlands, has selected Nortel Networks
to upgrade its wireless network with GSM and GPRS equipment and services,
extending an existing relationship.
As
mobile station manufacturers seek easy-to-implement and cost effective
paths to upgrade from GSM/GPRS to EDGE networks, Comsys' EDGEware(TM)
software based platform offers the answer.
Responding
to the increasing demand for higher quality multimedia-rich applications,
Symbian and Texas Instruments announced the availability of a Hardware
Accelerator API (HWA) in Symbian's OS.
The
MMS push delivery manager is designed to enable mobile operators to create
push based MMS service packages and generate immediate MMS revenue from
launch
Japan
may be the birthplace of the new generation mobile phones, but the carriers
that offer the service are having teething pains. For years, Japan's three
largest cellular phone carriers DoCoMo, KDDI and J-Phone had double-digit
sales growth.
