| 3G
Features March 2006 |
3G
Features March 2006 |
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After
many stops and starts, 3G mobile telephony is coming on with a vengeance.
In 2004, ABI Research counted 17.3 million 3G subscribers worldwide, |
Novatel
Wireless announced an update to its embedded module developments across
major Evolution Data Only (EV-DO) and High Speed Data Packet Access
(HSDPA) standards, as follows: |
Telestone
Technologies announced today the successful completion of a comprehensive
3G wireless coverage test for China Mobile's Guizhou Province Division
using Telestone's new 3G wireless coverage platform system. |
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NTT
DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that it achieved 2.5Gbps packet transmission
in the downlink while moving at 20km/h. The fourth-generation (4G) radio
access field experiment took place in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture
on December 14, 2005. |
Research
and Markets has announced the addition of The Rise of 3G in Europe -
Case Study: Ireland to their offering. |
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Actix
has acquired Radioplan GmbH, a Dresden based provider of automated network
optimization software with customers in Europe, USA and Asia. |
The
Chinese mobile telephony market is one of the most dynamic and complicated
in the world, and it will become considerably more complex in the next
few years. |
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The
survey of over one hundred mobile professionals highlights a number
of surprising results identifying key areas of differentiation and new
revenue opportunities for network operators. |
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High speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) has long been known as a powerful
enhancement to WCDMA. |
Mobeon, the mobile messaging software specialist, has joined forces
with video communications specialist, TANDBERG, as part of its 3G Gateway
beta test programme. |
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Nokia and Cable & Wireless have signed an International Frame Agreement
for the supply of GSM and WCDMA 3G radio and core networks. |
P4,
Polish mobile operator, and Huawei Technologies jointly held a signing
ceremony of an Agreement on UMTS network construction at Huawei's headquarters
in Shenzhen, China. |
Samsung
Electronics, Korea based leading telecom systems and mobile handset
provider, Bouygues Telecom, France's mobile operator, |
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Members
of the 'mobilkom austria group' have selected Ericsson to upgrade their
3G networks to HSDPA, thus boosting the performance of mobile broadband. |
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Ericsson
and Sagem Communication have signed a license agreement for U275, an
EDGE/WCDMA platform from Ericsson Mobile Platforms. |
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MetaSolv
Software,announced the release of Mediation 5, MetaSolv's carrier-class
mediation application designed for multi-service 3G wireless, IP, VoIP
and traditional voice networks. |
Lucent
Technologies unveiled the Lucent Base Station Router (BSR), a Bell Labs
innovation that integrates key components of third-generation (3G) mobile
networks into a single network element, |
Lucent
Technologies announced an extension to the network analysis and optimization
service it has been delivering for T-Mobile International, focused on
improving the end-to-end performance of T-Mobile |
Alcatel
announced it has been selected by T-Mobile International to provide
its affiliated companies in Germany, the UK and Austria with a fully
integrated interactive mobile TV solution. |
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Ericsson
has introduced a new base station for both GSM and WCDMA access. The
compact design simplifies modernization, speeds up new deployments and
reduces total cost of ownership. |
Tatara
Systems announced its selection by O2 UK to deliver mobile business
solutions. Tatara's Mobile Services Convergence Platform will be used
to enable compelling and integrated product offerings to business professionals
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NTT
DoCoMo, Renesas Technology Corp, Fujitsu Limited, Mitsubishi Electric
and Sharp Corporation announced that they will jointly develop a comprehensive
mobile phone platform |
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In
the Western Hemisphere, as well as globally, GSM took the largest market
share in the mobile wireless industry in 2005 according to 3G Americas, |
Siemens
Communications sees clear confirmation of its business strategy for
China after the Chinese government officially declared TD-SCDMA as the
national 3G standard. |
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Vidiator
and IPWireless announced that the companies have signed a partnership
agreement to jointly develop mobile broadcasting solutions based on
the 3GPP Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Standard, or MBMS. |
3G
Americas and Informa Telecoms & Media report that UMTS, the third
generation evolution for the GSM family of technologies, |
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Wataniya Telecom opened its High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA)
network, making it the first operator in the Middle East and Africa
region to offer mobile services beyond 3G. The solution, provided by
Nokia, |
With
this 3G deal Nokia, a long-term GSM infrastucture supplier to Cosmote,
further cements its role in the development of Cosmote's mobile networks
in Greece and elsewhere in the Balkans. |
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RADVISION
has teamed with HP to deliver a service creation platform for video
application services in next-generation mobile networks. |
Downloading
music to a mobile handset, accessing and editing e-mails on a mobile
handset, watching television or the person at the other end on the display
during a phone call |
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:Nokia
and Telecom Italia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for
wider cooperation in the area of WCDMA 3G, |
At
the end of September 2005, the global cellular market clocked a record
2 billion cellular subscribers. By the end of December 2005 that figure
had reached 2.14 billion |
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The
Telecommunications Regulatory Authority in Lithuania announced today
that TeliaSonera's subsidiary Omnitel is one of the winners in the tender
for the three 3G licenses in Lithuania. |
NEC
Corporation announced that it has been collaborating on joint field
trials for SUPL-based Assisted GPS location services with WIND, Italy's
leading mobile operator. |
LHS
announced that Cosmo Bulgaria Mobile (GloBul) has selected BSCS iX to
bill for its voice, data, content, and Internet services. |
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Andrew
Corporation has introduced the industry's most compact tower mounted
amplifier (TMA) that will provide operators with an ideal option for
coverage and capacity enhancement for 3G networks. |
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Northern
Sky Research (NSR) released its newest survey and forecast report: "Mobile
TV 2006- Enabling Rich Video on the Go." |
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Alcatel
announced that is has been awarded a contract to provide a 3G/UMTS mobile
network to CamGSM (Mobitel), a telecommunications service provider in
Cambodia. |
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Novatel
Wireless announced it has developed the Merlin U870, a High Speed Downlink
Packet Access (HSDPA) PC Card Modem, to support the global rollout of
HSDPA networks. |
The
recent certification of commercial WiMAX gear represents a major milestone
for the 802.16 industry but competition looms from existing and evolving
IP based wireless technologies. Alternatives to WiMAX such as FLASH-OFDM, |
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The
CDMA Development Group (CDG) announced today that the number of CDMA2000
operators reached 143 at the end of the last year, and the technology
is now deployed in 67 countries across 6 continents. |
Tele2
Eesti AS, Estonia's largest alternative telecommunications provider,
has contracted with the Siemens Communications Group to build a complete
3G network in Estonia. |
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Following
the announcement of the GTM351E embedded wireless module on December
29 2005, Option N.V. (Euronext: OPTI, OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology
company, |
Specialist
3G video service provider All New Video has signed a partnership agreement
with YooMedia, |
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The
CDMA Development Group (CDG) announced that CDMA2000 operators and handset
manufacturers have formed working groups to aggregate their requirements
for different tiers of devices based on the documents developed by the
CDG’s Global Handset Requirements for CDMA Team (GHRC). |
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QUALCOMM
Incorporated a |
