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| O2 Starts Wireless Video Trial |
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18th April 2003 |
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Inset is Dave McGlade, CEO O2 UK who said: Mobile Video is a natural addition to the range of services we already offer like Media Messaging and the O2 Games Arcade and fully exploits the technology we have available today. We want to develop a range of communications and entertainment services that our customers really want and trials like this give us the opportunity to listen to our customers and get crucial feedback."
O2's Mobile Video trial aims to encourage experimentation with its range
of services and will give trialists the unique opportunity to download
or stream video content free of charge during the six week period. This
trial will use some of the most advanced UK mobile phone technology
through the latest mobile phones - the Nokia 7650, Nokia 3650 and the
O2 xda. O2
is also leveraging its sponsorship of Arsenal football club and the
England Rugby team. Arsenal fans will be able to get exclusive Arsene
Wenger interviews and post match highlights whilst rugby followers will
have access to footage of England rugby internationals. |
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| TODAY'S
PRESS RELEASES |
Bandai
Networks and HI Corporation announced tthat the companies will supply
three 3D games to Vodafone Group for its consumer service, Vodafone live!,
with distribution beginning at the end of April. |
O2
is about to conduct a mobile video trial with its customers using its
existing mobile data network to help create a mobile video service planned
for launch later this year. |
Alcatel
will provide Shanghai Mobile with industry-leading Evolium solutions that
will enable the operator to meet the enhanced requirements of GPRS data
services. These include a Mobile Switching Center, Base Station Controllers,
Transmission Controllers and Multi Base Station System (BSS) Fast Packet
Servers. |
Nokia
has signed an agreement to supply Telestet's WCDMA 3G network in Greece.
Deliveries have already commenced with Nokia providing both 3G core and
radio-access network equipment for the smooth roll-out and introduction
of Telestet's nationwide WCDMA network |
The
MMC line supports high storage capacity and rapid transmission of still
photos and moving pictures, which are now essential features of top- |
Satellite
videophones, developed in the UK, are bringing a new dimension to reporting
on the battlefield in Iraq. |
DAX
Technologies said it has agreed to supply network performance management
software to Highland Cellular to support their new 3G GSM wireless network
in their coverage area |
Hutchison
Telecoms today launched 3 - Australia's first, live, person-to-person
mobile, video calling and information, communication and entertainment
service. |
NEC
unveiled the NEC e606, one of Australia's first 3G mobile handsets and
the first and only model to offer mobile video calling. From today, the
e606 is being marketed by Hutchison Telecoms, under the first global 3G
service, branded 3. |
Motorola
announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Winphoria
Networks, Inc., a core infrastructure provider of next generation packet
based mobile switching centers for wireless networks. |
Ericsson
announced that the company has conducted 2.1GHz CDMA2000 voice and data
calls on its CDMA2000 1xEV-DV ready infrastructure equipment. Ericsson's
industry-leading 2.1GHz CDMA2000 solution is based on a true 3G platform
designed to support 1xEV-DO and 1xEV-DV services. |
Built
on Ericsson's global 3G Connectivity Packet Platform (CPP), this seamless
multi-access solution will allow China Unicom to efficiently and cost-effectively
deliver advanced mobile Internet services to their customers. |
The
CDMA Development Group (CDG) announced that it co-hosted a seminar in
San Jose, Costa Rica, that showcased the CDMA2000(R) family of standards
and their capabilities. |
Under
the terms of the agreement, Amplefuture will also provide an MMS service
for msn.co.uk, which will allow customers to download colour content,
i.e. picture messages and screensavers. |
Wednesday's
decision by Brazil's Agência Nacional de Telecomuniçacões
(ANATEL) to reaffirm the sole use of 1800 MHz for Personal Mobile Services
(SMP) licenses will sustain continued growth of mobile services in not
only Brazil, but in other countries in the Americas, in the opinion of
the wireless association 3G Americas |
The
WLAN industry will continue to experience stellar growth as deployments
in several key markets take place," predicts Edward A. Rerisi, ABI
Director of Research. |
KDDI
and its sister company Okinawa Cellular has hit 7 million 3G mobile phone
subscribers this month. |
Novatel
Wireless and Sprint announced availability of MobileScape(TM), a wireless
business process application and payment processing system designed for
business critical transactions in the mobile workforce technology market.
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Hutchison
3G in the UK ( 3 UK ), the first 3G operator to commercially launch 3G
in Europe during March 2003, has reduced the price of its 3G handsets
and extended the introductory 50% discount offer by another month which
will now terminate at end of April, 2003. |
Wavecom
SA announced that it will supply TCL Mobile Communication with the core
wireless technology for TCL's S320 and S500 mobile telephones, which will
be the focus of an important marketing campaign. |
Subex
Systems, the Bangalore, India-based Telecom Software Products company
announced that it has won an order from Total Access Communication (TAC),
Thailand, to deploy its flagship Fraud Management System, Ranger™.
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For
now, Cellcom has decided to follow the market and not publish the 3G tender,”
Cellcom CTO Lipa Ogman told “Globes” in an exclusive interview. |
Five
leading mobile operators in the region announced today that they have
teamed up to form the Asia Mobility Initiative (AMI), Asia's first initiative
which aims to enhance mobile users' experience, especially in the area
of mobile data. |
PT.
Telkom, Indonesia’s largest telecommunications operator, has selected
a Motorola CDMA2000 1X system to bring 3G wireless services to the ten
provinces of Sumatra. Sumatra is one of the largest islands and one of
the fastest growing areas in Indonesia. |
Openet
Telecom announced that Edge Wireless will deploy FusionWorks Mediation,
Openet's convergent mediation platform, to support the rollout of new
2.5G and 3G services to its subscriber base. |
See
it, feel it, hear it. With 3D stereo sound, built-in VGA camera, vibration
capabilities, unique disco lights, color screen and the ability to create
your own musical ring tunes, the tri-band Motorola E390 delivers a sensory
overload. |
ADVFN,
the UK's number one stocks and shares Web site, is providing live stocks
and shares information to investors on the move. The first advertiser
of this new service is Intel. |
The
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS virus outbreak has forced the
event organizers of the TD-SCDMA conference in Beijing this week to cancel. |
Visa
International, Nippon Shinpan, OMC Card and AEON Credit today announced
the start of a pilot program, together with NTT DoCoMo, Inc., to test
a service for making credit card payments at bricks and mortar merchants
via DoCoMo 504i and 504iS series mobile phones, which are equipped with
infrared transmission (IrDA) ports. |
Ericsson
has been chosen by América Móvil as main supplier for the
Core Infrastructure and one of the principal suppliers for the Radio Infrastructure
for a GSM and EDGE Network to complement the existing TDMA network of
its Brazilian subsidiary Telecom Americas. |
The
development follows a European wide agreement to distribute the games
via retail packs announced today between Digital Bridges, a world leader
in mobile entertainment solutions and Namco Europe |
SM
increased its digital cellular subscriber base in the Americas by 54%
in 2002, the largest percentage gain of any wireless technology in the
region. In Latin America, GSM increased its subscriber base by 90% in
2002, largely in the second half of the year when several new GSM networks
were commercially launched. |
All
four of the 3G licence holders in Sweden has applied for a 2 or 3 year
delay to the full rollout of 3G in Sweden. This is based on problems getting
approval for the siting of telecom masts and the scarcity of the handsets. |
The
number of NTT DoCoMo 3G FOMA subscribers increased to 320,000 subscribers
up to March 2003. This means that DoCoMo hit the targets they had previously
stated. |
The
multimedia composer and transaction engine made available by Liquid Air
Lab, combined with the mBill billing platform, enabled mBill to integrate
an existing SMS chat application with a multimedia messaging component.
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n
top of all the other challenges facing MMS before it can become the success
that the mobile operators are hoping for and boost non-voice revenues
to new heights - one issue stands out that is crucial for the content
providers before they even think about publishing and selling content
via MMS - Digital Rights Management (DRM) |
Response
to Californian Congressman Darrell Issa’s letter to the Honorable
Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence from Rob Conway, CEO of the GSM
Association and Member of its Board. |
LG
will launch a rotational camera-fitted GPRS phone on the Italian market,
the largest in Europe. The camera phone model is fitted with 65,000 -color
TFD-LCD and 40 poly and intended for export to Europe. |
All
European telcos can learn valuable lessons from i-mode and Vodafone live!,
according to a new brief by Forrester Research. Europe's i-mode gets the
services right and the marketing wrong, while Vodafone live! does the
opposite. |
The
PA-Manager allows operators to enforce the priority access policy at cell
level without compromising Quality-of-User Experience (QoE) for all other
services sharing the same media space, and also to monitor application
performance on a cell-by-cell basis. |
To
their disappointment, some operators now find it nearly impossible to
recover their investments and most have delayed their plans to deploy
3G, according to a new study by research firm Allied Business Intelligence
(ABI). |
DTAC
announced cooperation with world’s leader in mobile communications
Nokia to strengthen its position as the leading wireless data services
provider. |
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UK
: O2 is about to conduct a mobile video trial with its customers using
its existing mobile data network to help create a mobile video service
planned for launch later this year. O2 has selected 350 of its customers
to take part in the trial which will begin at the end of this month.