3G Features October 2004
Before end of year, Amena it will extend the cover to Almeria, Cordova, San Sebastián, Santander and Valladolid, with which it will cover with his network UMTS 33% with the Spanish population.
Samsung announced that it has developed a TFT-LCD driver IC chip with VGA-class resolution capable of displaying up to 260K colors for TFT-LCD panels in mobile phones.
"With every new feature/service adoption, there is an initial learning curve for consumers to experiment with the full capabilities of their cell phone, causing some initial frustration," said Kirk Parsons, senior director of wireless services at J.D.
NTT DoCoMo, Inc.("DoCoMo") reported today that Cingular Wireless LLC announced that all conditions necessary for its merger with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. ("AT&T Wireless") have been satisfied.
ZTE Corporation, China’s largest supplier of telecommunication equipment, has launched the world’s smallest, lightest, and most compact 3G handset.
For Sky Link's network expansion in Tver, Lucent provided an end-to-end solution, including its Flexent® CDMA450 base stations.
Acterna announced the sale of multiple units of the Acterna 8630 protocol analyzer to a major telecommunications manufacturer in China.
Tektronix announced additional support for China's Time Division - Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA) through software options for its WCA200A (Wireless Communication Analyzer).
Seven.Five with VQuad, introduced by Comarco Wireless Test Solutions and SwissQual, is the industry's first comprehensive test system to provide video measurements/engineering data time synchronization.
Renesas Technology announced that its quad-band EDGE RF system solution is being used by Sierra Wireless in its new EDGE wireless wide area network cards, including the AirCard 775 and privately labeled EDGE PC Cards.
Marconi Corporation plc announced the global availability of Planet(R) EV 4.0, the latest release of its next-generation wireless network design and optimization platform. Planet EV improves network efficiency,
Spirent Communications have announced that China RITT/CTTL (China Telecommunication Technology Labs) will utilize the Spirent UMTS Location Test System (ULTS) and UMTS Automatic Test System (U-ATS) to verify the performance of GSM and W-CDMA handsets.
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that Japanese customers of its 3G FOMA based WORLD CALL service will be able to exchange videophone calls
Vodafone at the SIMO Exhibition Centre, will present the new Vodafone live! 3G handsets, - for demonstrations only - that are to be sold in Spain for Christmas: Sharp 902, Motorola E1000, Motorola V980, Sony Ericsson V800 and Nokia 6630.
On October 15th (the second day of "CDMA Operators Summit 2004" forums ) in the three fields of technology, business and terminals for CDMA, were held. The participants in the forums were the CEOs of 26 CDMA operators in 13 countries around the world.
The maturity of wireless handset technology will continue to drive horizontal trends in Chinese and global supply chains, giving greater opportunities to ODMs in Taiwan.
Available in Italy starting from tomorrow the first UMTS videophone with 1.2 Mega Pixel resolution camera.
Marco De Benedetti, Chief Executive Officer of TIM and Mauro Sentinelli, Managing Director, have launched an out-and-out revolution in the name of technological innovation: the third-generation services
The CDMA Development Group (CDG) announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Third Generation Telecommunication Networks Operators Association (3G Association)
Macromedia and NTT DoCoMo announced that members of the DoCoMo-led global alliance of i-mode® licensing companies will be offered Macromedia Flash Lite
Vodafone Sweden is now boosting its sports content in Vodafone live! even further. The company has acquired from the mobile operator 3 the rights to broadcast video footage of the top Swedish football
NEC announced the launch of the e101, a 2.5G/GPRS enabled camera phone, which will be available on O2’s Pay&Go tariff.
With next-generation networks in place and devices on the shelves, op-erators are faced with a new headache: what to charge for mobile services – and how to collect?
PrairieComm announced that they have signed an agreement to bundle e-SIM's MMI Solution with PrairieComm's FronTier 3G platforms.
This integrated solution offers valuable end-to-end insight into network operation and service performance, and enables wireless carriers to aggregate data from key UMTS interfaces
“MPEG4 and H.263 are the default standards for mobile video because the encoding and decoding is extremely processing efficient, which is significant in a mobile environment where battery life is one of the most critical design criteria.”
Agere Systems announced a reference platform for multimedia mobile phones based on GPRS/EDGE technology that is capable of reducing handset time-to-market by up to three months.
Siemens Communications will be the first vendor to bring an end-to-end solution for "High Speed Downlink Packet Access" (HSDPA) to market, complete with PC card.
mobilkom austria has announced that it has made Bregenz, in the western Austrian province of Voralberg, the World``s first mobile city
Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. has launched Taiwan's first push to talk service, using Nokia's industry-leading Push to talk over Cellular (PoC) solution
Malaysia's leading mobile operator has selected Siemens as one of its second (2G/GSM) and third generation (3G/UMTS) infrastructure suppliers.
As the majority WCDMA RAN supplier to the mmO2 group, Nokia is committed to supporting high quality end user experience for O2's 3G Customers, specifically within the M25 London motorway ring area.
According to European wireless analyst Emma McClune, early consumer 3G launches are a dangerous marketing trend in the wireless market.
"The fact that consumers have read one million comics on their phones is a wonderful and amazing thing," said FunMail CEO Adam Lavine.
Approximately 50 million mobile workers exist in the United States. These mobile workers need remote access to a myriad of applications, such as e-mail, corporate intranets, CRM and field service applications, and legacy systems.
European GPRS pricing remains highly complex, with an average price for 10MB inclusive volume standing at EUR 12.80 (approximately USD 15.77) according to a new report from BroadGroup.
Casio announced a new handset ( model W21CA ) which has a 2.6inch QVGA liquid display. This comes with a 'Wide View Style' screen and also uses the Opera browser.
KDDI and Okinawa Cellular are pleased to announce the launch of "talby," the third mobile phone in the 'au' design project.
By 2008, all European 3G operators will earn the lion’s share of their revenues as Telecommunications Service Providers (TSPs).
Hutchison Telecommunications Int Limited, ("Hutchison Telecom") a leading international provider of mobile telecommunications services, will begin trading today on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "HTX."
New findings from Juniper Research show that JavaT downloads will generate over $4.8bn in mobile revenues by 2009, with Mobile Games accounting for the vast majority of revenues.
Macrospace announced the availability of its critically-acclaimed mobile games from the UK's fastest growing mobile operator 3.
When combined with the BREW client software, Trigenix’s suite of technologies provides additional substantial advantages to QUALCOMM’s existing UI offerings that enable flexible and customizable wireless device UIs for operators and device manufacturers.
Leading Finnish mobile operator TeliaSonera Finland has successfully conducted the world's first EDGE-WCDMA packet data handover using Nokia equipment and terminals in a commercial network.
Under the direction of China``s Ministry of Information Industries (MII), trials of 3G/UMTS radio access networks and terminals are now completed.
CTEL’s RF Solutions Group will showcase its new SeeGull™ LX Tri-Band scanning receiver that provides simultaneous RF measurements for the WCDMA 2100 MHz, GSM 900 MHz, and GSM 1800 MHz frequency bands.
Revolutionary entertainment for mobile phones, will be exhibiting the latest titles in its portfolio of 3D games at this year's 3G World Congress.
QUALCOMM Incorporated announced two innovations -- 1xEV-DO Platinum Multicast, an evolution of CDMA2000 1xEV-DO; and FLO(TM) (Forward Link Only) technology, which is complementary to CDMA2000 and WCDMA networks.
KPN is introducing its first UMTS services for consumers in the Netherlands. Following the launch of the Mobile Connect Card for laptop users in July,
3, the UK's first video mobile network, today announced that from this week it is selling the latest video mobile from NEC, the e616V.
Visto Corporation announced Visto Mobile 5.0, the next generation of its wireless e-mail platform which now provides instantaneous and automatic 2-way delivery of email, contacts and calendar updates on any 2.5G or 3G device.
Concord Camera Corp., a leader in award-winning, high-quality, affordably priced digital cameras, announced today that it will demonstrate its clever new wireless image transfer technology
TeliaSonera has selected Ericsson as sole supplier for its future-proof GSM and WCDMA network, enabling high capacity mobile services for consumers and enterprises in Denmark
TV and video services could be the applications that European mobile operators have been looking for to increase the revenue they get from mass-market consumers over their 3G mobile phone networks
The investment will be used to upgrade m.Net's next-generation UMTS/WCDMA wireless network in the city of Adelaide and turn it into the most advanced 3G network in Australia.
InterDigital's AIM product suite includes AIM ANTENNA products for Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and cellular devices.
QUALCOMM Incorporated announced that QUALCOMM will work with NTT DoCoMo, Inc. to promote the global deployment of WCDMA.
Even though we were expecting mass 3G handset mania last Xmas in the UK - will it happen this year ? . At the moment your guess is as good as mine.
3, the UK's first video mobile network, won the award for "best pre-pay package" by offering customers great value, leading handsets and an exciting range of services.
QUALCOMM Incorporated announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Spike Technologies, Inc., a leading semiconductor design services company, headquartered in Milpitas, California, with a design center in Bangalore, India.
Pantech & Curitel Introduces a round-shape 3D game phone (Model : PH-S3500). It is Korea’s first game phone with hardware-based 3D graphic chip and a dual speaker.
HSDPA will substantially enhance the performance of the downlink path from base station to mobile, improving the user experience for services ranging from video downloads to web-style applications.
IComm Technologies Inc. has just been granted by the USPTO a very important patent for its technology on Turbo Codes Decoder implementing concatenated SISO Log-MAP decoders.
NetHawk, a pioneer in 3G testing since their release of the world’s first 3G protocol analyser in 2001, is now launching a new release of their intelligent data acquisition product for 3G Networks, the NetHawk 3G Probe.
Pantech developed a horizontal “Slab” type convergence mobile phone which is considered to be another revolutionary accomplishment beyond the clamshell or sliding types in mobile phone technology.
Emblaze Mobile Ltd. has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with Innostream, Korea's leading independent mobile phone manufacturer, to create one of the world's most innovative multi-media handset makers.
Vodafone K.K. announces that it will introduce the V602T, a new model planned for early November that uses a new design concept employing different textural variations for a quality feel.
VIPnet had already demonstrated readiness for the implementation of UMTS technology in May 2003 by establishing the UMTS connection with the four largest Croatian cities, and is one of the first European operators which realized an international UMTS call.
Broadcom Corporation announced a new family of high performance, low power, integrated system-on-a-chip (SoC) processors targeted at data networking and communications applications, as well as security, storage, 3G wireless infrastructure, and high-density computing applications.
Sanyo in Japan will feature a new prototype CDMA 2000 1X 3G EV-DO phone with an integral TV Tuner during CEATEC 2004. Initial details are
Television-enabled cell phones are on the horizon, but is there strong consumer interest in this new technology? Not yet, according to a study conducted by Lyra Research's DTV View group.
The Digifusion RedCom Videophone is the world’s first solution of its kind to utilise the new compression standard H.264, enabling high quality video calls, as well as increased audio call quality, over existing broadband networks.
Lucent Technologies and Novatel Wireless announced an agreement with O2 to supply the Merlin U530(TM) third-generation (3G) Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) Wireless PC Card
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today the joint development of a prototype micro fuel cell for 3G FOMA® handsets. The prototype, manufactured by Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., is expected to greatly extend FOMA handset usage time
Using Qualcomm's 1xEV-DO technology, the AXW-D800 and AXW-D1900 modems are designed to provide users with a high-speed data connection in the 800 and 1900 MHz bands at peak data rates of up to 2.4 Mbps.
HSDPA is a key feature for UMTS operators. The NetHawk RNC/Iub Simulator supports testing of this high capacity feature.
KDDI and Okinawa Cellular will release the "Friendly Design" A1403 mobile handset (from Kyocera Corp.) as part of their third-generation (CDMA1X) mobile phone lineup at the end of October, 2004.
3G Features October 2004
The growth of 3G/UMTS is supported by an increasing number of cellular handsets and PCMCIA cards (cards for laptops), there currently being over 75 models already launched or announced.
3's UMTS for Business at only 7,50 €cent/min for voice calls. A Fast Mobile Card for data-transmission for 40,90€ and with TRE.Dati, 775 MB a month for 20,84€.
A large number of network operators will launch 3G services by the end of 2004. In most cases, 3G is being promoted as high-speed e-mail for businesses, or as a richer multimedia experience for consumers.
i-mate™ today are proud to announce the launch of its first 3G product, the i-mate™ PDA2K EVDO ( inset ).
Panasonic announced the development of the company's first mobile phone designed for use on Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) networks.
Ericsson is demonstrating mobile broadband Internet access with video streaming and large downloads with HSDPA over a live WCDMA system, running traffic over the air.
Atmel announced the availability of the AT89C51SND2C, a new MP3 decoder, which combines in a single package all features needed in a mobile phone to play MP3 ring tones and to convert a cell phone into a pen drive.
Beginning with 28 October all Mobitel GSM/UMTS subscribers will now have the possibility to choose between two new UMTS mobile phones:
Orange and Argogroup have launched the world’s first real-time online testing programme for mobile application developers.
"These are tremendous milestones for PacketVideo, and underscore our central role driving the evolution of the mobile phone as one of the world's most influential consumer electronics devices," said Dr. James Brailean, Ph.D., CEO at PacketVideo.
Sony Ericsson today announced a new quad-band PC Card that provides convenient wireless Internet access for laptop and notebook users wherever they need to be online. Bridging the cellular and WiFi worlds,
QUALCOMM Incorporated announced it will demonstrate a host of innovative 3G CDMA wireless products and solutions for consumers
T-Mobile UK launched "Office in Your Pocket", a major expansion of its mobile services for businesses, and announced key new broadband mobile devices and a more than
The Croatian government has awarded the two mobile operators in the country with one UMTS license each.
Samsung Electronics unveils the world's first mobile phone (model: SCH-S250) equipped with a 5-megapixel camera.
Pantech & Curitel is launching a new CDMA450 model (Model: HX550C) to Russia and Romania.
Addicted to reality TV programming? It won't be long before you can watch your favorite real-life TV broadcasts on the go, thanks to a chip Texas Instruments Incorporated is developing for cell phones.
Alcatel announced the joint launch and operation of a live HSDPA* (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) demonstration system in France.
Together with the Japanese telecommunications giant NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Rohde & Schwarz has developed the first package of test scenarios to test interoperability between the NTT DoCoMo network and third-generation mobile radio phones.
Nordisk Mobiltelefon and Nortel Networks are presenting a live demonstration of the broadband mobile technology CDMA 450 in Tampere, Finland.
EMI Music has agreed a deal with The Carphone Warehouse which will make Robbie Williams the first artist ever to release an entire album plus video content on a Memory Card
OMRON Corporation announced the development of the world's first reversible light module for Clamshell-type mobile phones.
M-Systems unveiled plans to introduce the MegaSIM™ card module, a fully compatible (U)SIM (universal subscriber identity module) card with commercial availability in the second half of 2005.
The UMTS TDD VoIP handset will use Atmel's highly integrated AT76C902 VoIP system-on-a-chip as the main processor, with the IPWireless TDD Module performing the UMTS TDD modem functions.
“TMN has a history of leading the mobile market in Portugal with attractive, advanced services” said Fernando Rodrigues, general manager of corporate business at TMN.
Brooktrout Technology, Inc., a leading supplier of media processing and call control products, today announced that its SnowShore Media Server now supports the H.263 video compression standard for video messaging and video portal applications.
Crisp Wireless, a leading provider of mobile applications and content management solutions for consumer-facing enterprises, today unveiled mLogic 3G Media and mLogic 3G Commerce.
The mobile video revolution is underway! By the end of 2004, mobile operators will have more than 10 million mobile video-enabled handsets ready and waiting for the next "killer" video applications.
Despite the hype surrounding its new data services, traditional voice calling remains the principal revenue earner for Hutchison 3G
The MINT RF Tester is a dual mode test system for 2G/2.5G/3G products that performs automatically the conformance RF Test Specifications
Compared to people in other countries Swedes seldom talk on their mobile phones. The main reason for that is the expansive mobile calls. Now the mobile operator 3 wants to change all that.
Spreadtrum Communications has announced the development of its in-house developed 3G mobile phone chipset, which will do away with the long-standing monopoly that foreign companies have over the technology.
NEC Electronics announced the launch of three single-chip melody LSI solutions that offer superior sound technology for mobile phones.
Following the 3GPP announcement of MPEG-4 High-Efficiency AAC as the codec of choice for delivery of audio content to future 3G devices,
55% of Large U.S. Businesses Will Deploy a Wireless Wide-Area Data Solution
The inflection point for enterprise mobility is the emergence of third-generation wireless networks capable of delivering on the promise of high-speed wireless data access
Nokia and Vodafone Omnitel N.V. in Italy have signed an agreement to upgrade Vodafone Italy's core network for GSM/EDGE and WCDMA 3G with Nokia's MSC Server System.
RADCOM Ltd announced the immediate availability of the R4000 Performer platform. The new platform is a rack-mount 5U server that supports eight generic front-end processors
GSM operators will have the opportunity to derive business benefits by evolving to a packetized core network technology and more profitably address all segments of the marketplace.
The CDMA Development Group (CDG) reported that the issue of international roaming for both voice and 3G data services emerged as a prevailing theme at its 2004 CDMA Americas Congress
Motorola announced that it has begun deployment of its CDMA2000 1X solution on a 2GHz network for KDDI, the leading carrier for 3G cellular phone service in Japan.
The phone will be distributed for KDDI's 3G CDMA network in Japan, making Opera the first full Web browser deployed in the Japanese 3G CDMA network.
Under an extension to an existing supply agreement with Nortel Networks, O2 will deploy UMTS radio equipment in Eastern and Southern Germany (including Berlin) and across most regions of the British Isles. Nortel Networks was previously selected by O2 to provide GPRS and UMTS core networks.
Gartner named 3 as runner-up for its CRM Excellence Award, Large Enterprise category, at its Customer Relationship Management Summit 2004
DTG200 gateway product, resolves the problem of video corruption between the IP network and 3G network, enabling operators to increase revenue potential by deploying new media rich services.
Alcatel announced the signature of a contract with tele.ring for the expansion of their 3G/UMTS network.
Companies with between 100 and 1,000 employees represent an enormous opportunity for the wireless industry.
Actix, the global provider of wireless network performance engineering solutions, today announced that Hutchison 3G Austria,
As of today, Vodafone customers who make use of the UMTS data card for the laptop or use Vodafone live! UMTS, can also use these services in 10 other countries across Europe and Asia.
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., best known for its Panasonic brand products, has developed the industry’s first SD Memory Card with contactless smart card capabilities.
Great hype surrounds the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) business model. According to a new Pyramid Research report titled "MVNOs: Playing to Win,"
Samsung's history of innovation in European mobile communications has been witnessed with the introduction of TFT color screens, soft-touch slide-up phones, built-in megapixel digital cameras, intenna (built-in antenna) technology and the revelation of 3G in a series of highly successful mobile phones.
Siemens Communications will be integrating FLASH-OFDM(R) (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) technology into its portfolio of mobile broadband solutions.
The 3G Enterprise Alliance (3gea) is to hold a seminar on finance and mobile data. This high profile event, which is free to delegates, will take place in Frankfurt on 11th November 2004.
The RADVISION SIP Developer Platform is a service creation platform that provides developers with an open, object-oriented architecture (coded in ANSI C) for building SIP-based communications products for the wireline, wireless, and mobile worlds.
The ZSP540 core is ideally suited to meet the demands of multi-channel voice processing, 3G baseband processing, media-rich applications and other applications requiring additional parallel DSP compute performance.
Freescale Semiconductor has achieved another milestone in the evolution of its high-performance PowerQUICC™ III architecture containing a PowerPC™ core.
The Wireless Content spotlight report explores the burgeoning world of content now being delivered to mobile devices not only how adoption will affect wireless operators, but also how it will influence third-party providers of information, music, streaming video and games.
3 announced it has deployed PeopleSoft Enterprise Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in the United Kingdom, Italy, Denmark, and Sweden.
Openwave Systems Inc. announced that it has entered into an agreement with NTT DoCoMo whereby Openwave will support i-mode functionality across its product portfolio.
Agilent Technologies Inc. announced significant enhancements to its real-time Signaling Analyzer solution, offering a single network-testing platform for advanced performance management and troubleshooting
Intel Corporation, Nokia Corporation and Symbian Ltd. announced today a collaboration to bring smartphones based on the Nokia Series 60 Platform to market using Intel technology
Nissan Motor Co. and NTT DoCoMo announced that they would offer a new service that enables drivers to receive i-mode® content on their mobile phones by using their Nissan's CARWINGS navigation system.
KPN is introducing wireless Digital TV. From 18 October, customers can get radio and television channels with superb sound and picture quality broadcast to their homes at a competitive price.
"The new mobile format combined with the power of DNA's industry leading protocol analysis tools increases the effectiveness of troubleshooting in live 3G networks." said Lee Ellison, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Dilithium Networks.
Download Packet Access -- will produce a major shift in the landscape of cellular handset memory, forcing major NOR FLASH memory vendors such as Intel and the AMD/Fujitsu alliance to adapt or risk loss of market share.
O2 and ntl's Broadcast division announced the UK's first usability trial of multi-channel television to mobile phones, beginning in spring 2005.
Clear, the explanation agency, today announced the launch of Silk, an innovative mobile application that simplifies and enriches the mobile user experience.
NEC introduced the MP211, the industry’s first application processor for mobile phones with three internal CPU cores.
Mitec Telecom Inc. is pleased to announce the market introduction of a new generation integrated multi carrier tower mounted booster (TMB) amplifier for UMTS applications at 2.1 GHz.
Racal Instruments Wireless Solutions (RIWS), an Aeroflex company, has supplied CGC, the largest test-house in Taiwan, with its 6103 AIME/CT conformance test platform.
3 is enhancing its video jukebox service with a repertoire from Independent artists including Mercury award winners Franz Ferdinand, Stereophonics, the UK's No1 single Eric Prydz and The Libertines.
Racal Instruments Wireless Solutions (RIWS), an Aeroflex company, has announced its enhanced and upgraded 3G base station test system, the 6413A.
3GPP Selects MPEG-4 aacPlus
Nokia has been chosen to expand the 3G WCDMA radio-access network for MTC-Vodafone (Bahrain), with the help of Future Communications Company (FCC), Nokia's value-added reseller for networks in the Middle East.