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3G UMTS Phones Poised to Grab Market Share |
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27th May , 2004 |
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Inset is the LG U8100 3G UMTS phone currently on sale via 3G Operator 3. This finding, by New York-based technology market analyst ABI Research, has implications that extend up and down the production chain for the new devices. The second-generation UMTS/WCDMA handsets now starting to appear in the marketplace almost always include features such as enhanced color displays, applications or media processors with advanced video encoding and graphics capabilities, and dual cameras, along with increased memory to store the content these new capabilities generate. Some of these devices also have integrated WiFi and GPS capabilities. UMTS handsets will have to compete on price as well as feature-sets. Earlier UMTS chipsets were discrete solutions which drove the prices of handsets up, but the latest offerings have reduced that impact by integration and by migration to cutting edge process technologies such as 0.09u. According to Alan Varghese, Senior Director of Semiconductor Research, in the near future it will not be the UMTS modem that contributes to the handsets' higher cost, but all the included applications and peripherals that the higher data rates enable. The new integrated chipsets also consume less power, which means that the new handset models provide talk times in the order of three hours, and standby times approximating 200 hours. The use of such chipsets is said to reduce the number of parts in a handset by about 30%, with correspondingly lower costs. With savings of this kind now becoming available, the market for UMTS handsets markets can be expected to evolve as rapidly as services become available. These market trends, and others, are analyzed in detail by two ABI Research subscription services, Wireless Handset Quarterly Service, and Wireless Handset IC Quarterly Service. |
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| 3G UMTS Trial In Atlanta |
| Cingular Wireless announced that Lucent has been selected to deploy a third-generation (3G) UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) trial network in the Atlanta market. |
| Vodafone 3G Phone Launch in Italy |
| Vodafone Italia now offers the widest and most complete commercial offering for mobile services on the Italian market, thanks to UMTS technology, which now operates alongside the GSM/GPRS network. |
| 3G UMTS Phones Poised to Grab Market Share |
| The deployment of UMTS services in Europe will boost global sales of UMTS handsets from a 2003 level of 4 million units to more than 15 million by the end of 2004. |
| 10th Customer for 3G Multimode Protocol Stack |
| UbiNetics, a world leader in 3G Terminal and Test & Measurement technology, has announced the licensing of its 3G Multimode Protocol Stack Software to its 10th Customer. |
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| NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today the World Walker G-Card™, a new smart card that will enable DoCoMo mova® 2G subscribers to use both DoCoMo and non-DoCoMo GSM mobile phones for international roaming outside of Japan beginning June 1, 2004. |
| TIM Turbo 3G Service Goes Live |
| "TIM Turbo" commences today, the new line of third generation services that marks the commercial start-up of the combined Edge - UMTS network for TIM customers. |
| Next-Generation Wireless Infrastructure |
| Makers of critical infrastructure equipment for next-generation wireless services are under mounting pressure to cut their prices to attract new customers, |
| $20 Million Contract for 3G Mobile Network Equipment |
| Shenandoah Telecommunications announced a contract with Lucent Technologies to purchase up to $20 million of third-generation (3G) CDMA2000 mobile network equipment in 2004 |
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| Mindspeed Technologies announced that RADCOM Ltd is deploying Mindspeed's broadband access multiplexer (BAM), DS3/E3 Line Interface Unit (LIU), and OptiPHY(TM) ATM/POS devices in its Cellular Performer Analyzer system for 2.5 and 3G wireless networks. |
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| The new WLAN Protocol Tester R&S PTW70 from Rohde & Schwarz is a versatile test platform for the development, integration and verification of wireless local area network (WLAN) systems |
Europe
: The deployment of UMTS services in Europe will boost global sales
of UMTS handsets from a 2003 level of 4 million units to more than
15 million by the end of 2004. 