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| 3G Success In Italy |
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1st May 2003 |
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Of course, the commercial 3G launch was in March this year and H3G has 50,000 mobile subscribers to-date. Inset is Mr Li Ka-shing, Chairman of Hutchison Whampoa (HWL), which owns H3G Italy, and the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi during the 3G launch. Currently, H3G is signing up around 1,250 new subscribers a day. 3 - It is the commercial brand of H3G, the first mobile video company of the Italian market. After having won the UMTS license in Italy, in November 2000, with an offer of 3.25 billion of euro, 3 aims to the leadership in the third generation market. In its shareholder there are first-rate Italian and international players in telecommunications, Internet and new media, publishing and banking. Hutchison Whampoa is the majority shareholder with 88.2% of the corporate capital. The other shareholders are CIR, S. Paolo Imi, BMI, HDP, Gemina and Tiscali. |
| TODAY'S
PRESS RELEASES |
Tele2
AB announced that Tele2’s mobile operator in Luxembourg, Tango,
has launched its 3G (UMTS) network. Tango is the largest mobile provider
in Luxembourg and Tele2 was awarded a UMTS license in Luxembourg in May
2002. |
T-Mobile
and O2 have agreed to share their 3G network infrastructure such as 3G
masts, power provision and base stations. This has been ratified by the
EU Commission today. The ratification of the agreement by the European
Commission opens the floodgates for other similar network sharing arrangements
in Europe. |
NTT
DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that it has sold more than 10 million camera
phones since launching the first model, the SH251i, on June 1, 2002. The
phones transmit photos via the i-shot™ photo messaging service available
on DoCoMo's PDC network. |
IIR,
the conference event organiser, is concerned with the current SARS situation
in Hong Kong. Altough the situation could improve over the next few weeks,
IIR felt it prudent to
postpone the 3G World Congress that was scheduled for 9 – 13 June.
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By
the end of 2003, H3G Italy is expected to make Euro 200M says Vincenzo
Novari - Head of H3G. |
Hutchison
3G and Vodafone face more residents objecting to the erection of 3G masts.
This time in Lewisham, UK. The residents have won backing from Lewisham
Coucil's planning department who object to two new masts in the sub-distric
of Ladwell. |
-FUSIO
announced that it has secured the licence for COMEDY CENTRAL's hit animated
series, South Park. |
Monet
Mobile Networks, a high-speed wireless Internet service provider, announced
the availability of Monet Broadband, a high-speed, mobile Internet service
in Bismarck, N.D. |
Telia's
mobile customers first in world to be able to use MMS via GPRS throughout
Western Europe and the U.S. |
The
solution also translates between a wide variety of video signaling protocols,
enabling IT managers to integrate WM end points into a larger videoconferencing
network that might include end points that use IP (H.323), legacy ISDN
(H.320), and/or emerging 3G video phones (3G-324M). |
fter
9 months of fruitless negotiations to derive a solution for implementing
Mobile Number Portability (MNP), Hutchison 3G is initiating a proceeding
with the Austrian regulatory authority against T-Mobile, One, Telering,
Telekom Austria and UTA. |
Software
vendors see an opportunity to sell CSPs order-management systems for new
service offerings, including IP data, long distance, VoIP, and 2.5G and
3G wireless data services. |
Kyocera
will offer versions of its Phantom, Blade and Rave Series phones that
support BREW 2.0 to carriers who wish to extend their BREW-based content
offerings to the mass-market segment of wireless customers. |
WiseBand
Communications Ltd., a leading innovator in the field of RF power amplifier
linearization technology, announced the introduction of Wise-DPD, a breakthrough
linearization technology for multi-carrier power amplifiers (MCPA) for
UMTS/CDMA2000 base-stations. |
he
call is fully compliant to 3GPP standards and test cases as an end-to-end
WCDMA FDD voice call. It was made from a standard Ubinetics Test Mobile
(TM100) to a Node B basestation implemented on picoArrays, to a controller
and core network. |
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Italy
: By the end of 2003, H3G Italy is expected to make Euro 200M says Vincenzo
Novari - Head of H3G.