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| Integrated 3G and Wi-Fi for T-Mobile |
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26th February , 2004 |
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Europe France : International business travelers seeking wireless broadband connectivity on both sides of the Atlantic could benefit from a new service launched by the T-Mobile subsidiaries of Germany's Deutsche Telekom. The new Wi-Fi offering allows T-Mobile customers to access--with the same user name and password--more than 4100 hotspots in the U.S. and another 700 in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, the Netherlands, and the U.K., T-Mobile International said this week at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes. T-Mobile's wireless broadband service, based on the 802.11b standard, ranges in price from $10 for a 24-hour day pass to $40 per month on a month-to-month plan. In Cannes, T-Mobile also revealed plans for a multi-network service that will allow users to roam "seamlessly" across three different wireless networks: GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access), and Wi-Fi. The hand-over between the networks will be automatic, according to T-Mobile International Chief Executive Officer Rene Obermann.
For the pilot, T-Mobile will provide the connectivity, offering students and professors bundled fees, which will include Wi-Fi vouchers for the operator's hotspots and preferential fees for GPRS and WCDMA networks. The operator will likely announce prices at the Cebit trade show in Hanover, Germany, next month, according to Obermann. Cisco will provide the wireless LAN infrastructure, while IBM will furnish the notebooks, using Intel's Centrino mobile technology. The Frankfurt pilot, which begins in April, is expected to last several months, according to T-Mobile. A wider roll-out is planned from July 2004 to cover universities in Austria, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, and the U.K., in addition to Germany. In total, the group is targeting more than 100 universities. A key goal of the university initiative is to test every piece in the communications chain, ranging from the wireless infrastructure and devices to content and the customer experience, T-Mobile says. |
| TODAY'S
PRESS RELEASES |
| Intel Wireless Strategy Outlined at 3GSM |
| At 3GSM Intel also disclosed details of its next generation cellular and baseband processors, including a dual mode UMTS/wide-band CDMA (WCDMA) solution |
| Integrated 3G and Wi-Fi for T-Mobile |
| T-Mobile revealed plans for a multi-network service that will allow users to roam "seamlessly" across three different wireless networks: GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access), and Wi-Fi. |
| Vodafone 3G Data Card Wins Award |
| Vodafone was awarded one of the mobile industry's most prestigious awards, Best Mobile Application or Service: Corporate Market, for its Mobile Connect Card. |
| 3GSM Live Video Viewed Through Phones |
| Visitors to the PacketVideo stand experience live camera viewing of the 3GSM show, local Cannes scenery and other venues on video-enabled mobile handsets accessed via the local GPRS and UMTS networks. |
| 3G Phone Tear Down Results |
| Product teardown analyses of three "first-wave" UMTS handsets introduced in Europe in mid-2003 -- the NEC e-606, Motorola A830, and Nokia 6650 -- reveal |
| 3G Billing Systems Contracts |
| Formula Telecom Solutions, Ltd. (FTS), a developer and provider of convergent Billing and CRM solutions for the telecom industry, announced today that it has been awarded two new contracts in Asia and in Western Europe |
| Reference Design Platform For 2.5G & 3G Cellular |
| Comsys Communication introduced today its chip reference design platform for cellular baseband solutions. The baseband board platform, designed to support multi protocol cellular standards including EDGE, GPRS, GSM and UMTS |
| Lucent - Cisco Voice over IP Wireless |
| Lucent Technologies announced that it has teamed with Cisco Systems to develop a carrier-class voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and multimedia communications solution |
| 3G UMTS Increases Data Profitability |
| The most profitable services - those that occupy the sweet spot -- maximize AMPU (Average Margin Per User), not ARPU (Average Revenue per User). |
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