| 3G
Features May 2006 |
3G
Features May 2006 |
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Two
years ago, announcements of capital spending on 3G deployments were mainly
made by the largest operators in the most developed nations, but today
many smaller and incumbent operators in developing and less saturated
markets are also increasing CAPEX as they roll out 3G networks.
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Leo
Nikkari, Executive Director MobileIGNITE MOU said "MobileIGNITE fully
supports the efforts of 3GPP and their contributions to global 3G markets,
and we are honored to be approved as a Market Representation Partner.
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As
3G wireless rapidly gains momentum and QUALCOMM continues to expand
throughout Africa, the Johannesburg office will serve as a valuable
strategic center of operations. |
The CDMA Development Group reported today that 22 operators in 17 countries
throughout Latin America and the Caribbean have deployed or are building
CDMA2000® 1xEV-DO networks. |
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OKWAP
Inc. and Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd. plan to quicken
the development of TD-SCDMA handsets for commercial use, per an agreement
signed recently. |
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Huawei
Technologies announced that the multinational mobile operator VimpelCom
had recently awarded a commercial contract to Huawei to build the UMTS/GSM
network for Tajikistan. |
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QUALCOMM
announced its single-chip Universal Broadcast Modem (UBM) solution supporting
three of the world's leading mobile broadcast standards. |
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Mobestar,
the mobile community and content specialist, has announced the world's
first inter-country anonymous mobile video call. |
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mobilkom
austria has selected the optimization tool Capesso from Symena. The
ability to optimize mobile technologies UMTS, EDGE and GSM through this
software is beneficial to mobilkom austria in fulfilling its pact with
Carinthia, Burgenland and Lower Austria. Customers benefit from even
higher network quality. |
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"Although
there has been an explosion of retail purchase of Mobile wireless data
access in the beginning of 2006, the trend is very much upon the equipment
allowing Nomadic wireless data usage. |
High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) network deployments will garner over
60 percent of infrastructure revenue in 2012, according to a new report
from Telecom Trends International, Inc. The report, |
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Nomadix
announced a demonstration of Seamless Access with Intel at CTIA 2006
and, more recently, at the 2006 Spring Intel Developer Forum in Beijing,
China. This effort marks Nomadix’ official entry into the fixed-mobile
convergence (FMC) arena, and is available today on their public access
gateways. |
Tektronix
announced that Vodafone Germany, the country's leading mobile telecommunications
carrier, has chosen GeoProbe and Advanced Performance Monitoring (APM)
from the Tektronix Unified Assurance (UA) suite for its network-wide,
real-time GPRS and UMTS monitoring system. |
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3 Ireland announced it has entered the Irish mobile mass market, with
the introduction of '3Pay', its new Pre-Pay service (the Pre-Pay segment
represents 76% of the Irish mobile market). |
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| Alcatel
announced that Orange launched the initial phase of their live HSDPA services
in the Paris area with Alcatel's radio access solution. At first, Orange
friendly users located in Issy-les-Moulineaux and Boulogne-Billancourt,
two major cities in the Paris region |
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Yankee
Group analysts Declan Lonergan, Keith Mallinson, Phil Marshall and Matt
Hatton look beyond the hype and focus on the opportunities, |
Nero
announced that the Nero Digital Audio reference quality MPEG-4 audio
encoding software is now available free of charge via download from
the company's website (www.nero.com). |
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LongBoard,
Inc. and Stratus Technologies, Inc. have entered into an OEM partnership
agreement. As part of its Converged Personalized Services initiative,
Stratus will now offer LongBoard's SIP standard-based software for seamless
handoff of voice calls between cellular networks and 802.11 (WiFi) networks.
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QUALCOMM
announced it has made a commitment to provide a cash donation and CDMA2000
1xEV-DO service and devices for the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital and
Research Center in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, |
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According
to IDC's Western European Quarterly Mobile Devices Market Tracker, the
Western European mobile phone market (consisting of traditional mobile
phones and converged devices) maintained double-digit growth in the
opening quarter of 2006 as shipments increased by 11% year on year to
reach 40.7 million units, compared to 36.8 million in the corresponding
quarter of 2005. |
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After
giving a detailed description on WCDMA technology, this report analyses
the structure and trends of the WCDMA market in the world and in China.
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WCDMA
is the leading mobile 3G system globally. The majority of systems operate
in the internationally IMT-2000 core band spectrum of 1920 - 1980 MHz
paired with 2110 - 2170 MHz. |
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RNCOS
Research continues to introduce innovative and useful features in mobile
phones to lure the consumers. FOMA and NTT DoCoMo’s 3G services
are among the latest innovative technologies available in Japanese mobile
market. |
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The
services, which are the first commercial T-DMB broadcasts of mobile
TV in Europe, will be launched in time for the FIFA World Cup, thereby
making this summer’s football games available to viewers on the
move. |
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Telecommunications
newcomer Truphone today revealed its worldwide, low-cost mobile network
and declared itself the world's first 4G network operator. |
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The
MacroMAX is powered by picoChip's software upgradeable architecture,
as are Airspan's HiperMAX and MicroMAX-SDR basestation models which
are expected to achieve certified status during 2006. |
Twenty-seven
percent of European mobile users replace their cell phones every year,
according to Telephia, the leading provider of performance measurement
information to the mobile industry. |
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Mobile
phones offering generous data storage, enabled by small hard drives
with ever-greater capacities, may soon allow the cellular handset to
rival or surpass the portable MP3 player as the mass market mobile music
device of choice |
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Comverse announced it has been selected to supply a broad array of solutions
and services from its Total Communication portfolio to P4, Poland's
new 3G mobile operator. |
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"The
availability of EV-DO Rev. A is a great milestone for wireless operators
and their customers, but - as with any network upgrade - it also results
in new challenges for carriers," said Richard L. Evans, General
Manager of Actix's Americas operations. |
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Carrier
Access Corporation announced the introduction of a major software release
for the FLEXengine technology that adds the switching and prioritization
of 3G radio data protocols and the ability to integrate 2G, |
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InterDigital
Communications Corporation announced that the company and its wholly-owned
subsidiary InterDigital Technology Corporation have reached agreement
with Nokia Corporation |
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HELIO LLC announced details about its mobile game service, including
a custom-built mobile portal designed to maximize the 3G gaming experience.
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The
upgrade to HSDPA enables EMT to introduce its customers to a new generation
of mobile services, including mobile broadband, mobile video and mobile
music. |
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