T-Mobile and Lucent Technologies to Jointly Launch 3G UMTS Pilot Project

T-Mobile and Lucent Technologies to Jointly Launch 3G UMTS Pilot Project

Lucent Technologies and T-Mobile launched a joint pilot project to evaluate secure high-speed data services using third-generation (3G) Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) technology.

Inset is Carlos Mira, President Mobility Europe, Lucent Technologies and who is quoted below.

The pilot, which will involve enterprises in the Nuremberg region, will demonstrate how business customers can benefit from secure, high-speed data mobile services and integrated end- to-end enterprise applications.

This pilot network will leverage experience and expertise gained from the development of the Lucent UMTS network at its facility in Nuremberg.

Under the agreement, Lucent will supply T-Mobile with its Secure Mobile Data Solutions for Enterprises (SMDSe) offer, a pre-integrated package of hardware and software designed to enable business customers to use their laptop PCs or PDAs to access -- from any location -- all the applications they normally use with the same level of security and performance they typically experience in their office.

A key component of this end-to-end solution is the 3GlobeTrotter™ UMTS wireless modem PCMCIA card -- jointly developed by Lucent and Option -- which supports high-speed data connections on laptops, PDAs and other mobile devices. Late last year, Lucent and Option completed the first data calls using the 3GlobeTrotter cards at Lucent's labs in Nuremberg, where substantial development work on the cards has been done.

Lucent's SMDSe offer also incorporates software tools that enable an enterprise user to quickly and easily activate high-speed mobile data services, and solutions to support seamless roaming from the 3G UMTS network to wireless local area networks.

"Lucent's solution offers us an ideal opportunity to further extend and enhance our present offer for business customers," said Thomas Heilen, manager of product management for T-Mobile. "Already today our customers can easily access their data via the GlobeTrotter™ wireless modem PCMCIA card for GPRS. Using 3G UMTS and WLAN will help them do their work while on the move more easily, quickly and efficiently."

Also included in the pilot network is Lucent's UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN) -- comprised of the Flexent® OneBTS™ base station and Flexent Radio Network Controller - as well as Lucent's core packet switching network offer, including the Super Distributed Home Location Register, a Bell Labs Research innovation that manages customer information for both voice and 3G data services.

"The commercial deployment of secure high-speed mobile data services will help T-Mobile offer a range of new capabilities to their enterprise customers," said Carlos Mira, president of Lucent Mobility Solutions in Europe. "T-Mobile continues to be a leader in the introduction of cutting-edge wireless services in Europe and we are pleased to be able to help them deliver a truly compelling 3G service to their business subscribers."

Over the past two years, Lucent has sponsored in-depth studies that revealed significant pent-up demand for secure, high-speed mobile data access among European businesses, and also identified the key features that business users demand from such services. These studies showed that third-generation (3G) mobile operators will be in an ideal position to take advantage of the new revenue opportunity high-speed mobile data represents, particularly in the business market, which is characterised by high subscriber loyalty and a willingness to pay for premium services.

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