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Wireless Entertainment Services Finland Ltd. (WES), a leader in the mobile value added services market, and Playboy.com, Inc., the leading men's lifestyle and entertainment destination online, have entered into a licensing agreement.
eleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) (NASDAQ: TSYS) and CIBERNET today announced the first complete solution to deliver inter-carrier text messaging for wireless carriers.
QUALCOMM Incorporated, world leader of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, today announced the first nationwide launch in Japan, beginning in December 2001, of gpsOne™-enabled handsets and their associated position location service plans by KDDI Corporation.
Solidifying its leadership position in bringing advanced, high-speed wireless data services to customers, Verizon Wireless reports promising results from participants in its Express Network preview, setting the stage for the planned commercial availability of its 1XRTT Express Network in the first half of 2002.
3G voice calls placed on Ericsson equipment, add Norway. Ericsson and Telenor crossed the 3G threshold in late November.
FRIDAY DECEMBER 21st NEWS FOLLOWS
Nokia and the Finnish operator Sonera have signed a contract for the delivery of Nokia's multimedia messaging solution, including the Nokia Artuse(TM) Multimedia Messaging Service Center (MMSC). The solution will enable Sonera to offer new, richer messaging services to its customers.
The trial call was set up between J-Phone in Japan and Vodafone in Spain and marks a significant advancement in the roll out of 3G.
This video tour provides an overview of the SpectruCell Software Defined Radio Technology and a demonstration of the SpectruCell CDMA full duplex voice functionality.
Upon China’s successful entry into the World Trade Organization, China Mobile, China’s leading mobile operator, awarded Motorola’s (NYSE:MOT) Global Telecom Solutions Sector (GTSS) two major contracts for its GSM and GPRS networks expansion. The combined value of the contracts is $95 million.
Xenicom, the UK’s leading network infrastructure management solutions specialist for the mobile telecoms sector, is set to launch ‘Omnix Intelligent Equipment Planning (IEP)’ at the 3GSM World Congress next February.
Catapult Communications (Nasdaq:CATT) announced that the DCT2000(TM) test system has been upgraded for testing the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Program) commercial standard level, Release 99 June 2001 version.
MG Wireless Data Solutions announced that DiGi has upgraded its Short Message Service Center (SMSC) in order to cope with the phenomenal SMS traffic growth in Malaysia. DiGi, a subsidiary of Telenor in Norway, recorded 600% traffic growth in the past 10 months
Internet Protocol Detail Record Organization (IPDR.org), announced the success of Phase I of itstheir Europe, Middle East & Asia (EMEA) outreach program. The program consists of outreach to global companies involved with the delivery of Internet and 3G services
oday, the Swedish mobile operator Europolitan Vodafone opened its 3G
network in Karlskrona, thereby meeting the deadline set by PTS (the
Swedish Post and Telecom Agency) as regards public access to 3G networks
from 1 January 2002.
Hutchison 3G UK Limited ('Hutchison 3G'), winner of the UK's largest UMTS licence, today announced the appointment of John Barton as Sales Director. Mr. Barton joins Hutchison 3G from One 2 One where he was Director of Sales & Distribution.
THURSDAY DECEMBER 20th NEWS FOLLOWS
Wireless Entertainment Services Finland Ltd. (WES), a leader in the mobile value added services market, and Playboy.com, Inc., the leading men's lifestyle and entertainment destination online, have entered into a licensing agreement. Under terms of the agreement, WES will create Playboy-branded content for current wireless devices as well as for the soon to be launched mobile handsets. The deal marks Playboy's entry into the wireless market.
As part of its product teardown series in consumer electronics, Portelligent Inc., of Austin, Texas, has completed a detailed disassembly and manufacturing cost analyses of a newly released third-generation (3G) cell phone from Japan
KTF, the country's second largest mobile service provider, yesterday held a demonstration of the so-called cdma2000 1x EV-DO, or third-generation (3G), wireless network technology, heating up the race for faster data-oriented services in Korea.
United States Cellular Corporation announced its intention to deploy CDMA 1XRTT(Code Division Multiple Access) technology in all of its markets. The company already deploys CDMA in approximately 1/3 of its markets. The conversion to CDMA in the remaining 2/3 of its markets will start in early 2002 and should be completed in 2004. The approximate cost of the conversion will range from $400-$450 million spread over the three year period.
In a new Report, "Infrastructure Capex in the Asia-Pacific Region," the Yankee Group has published an updated forecast and analysis of wireless mobile infrastructure capex spending and trends in the Asia-Pacific region. With capex projections for the region as a whole and segmented by major technologies, the Report also sheds light on divergent capex trends in key Asian markets.
Mobile applications developer Zamano has announced the use of its Community Platform in Europe's first operational 3G network for the Isle of Man, launched by Manx Telecom
Nortel Networks and Vodafone in Spain (formerly have successfully completed live international roaming calls using the UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) 3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project) wireless standard, demonstrating Nortel Networks commitment to deliver interoperable UMTS networks in line with customer deployment schedules and market requirements.
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 19th NEWS FOLLOWS
Palm, Inc. and Texas Instruments today announced that they have entered into a multifaceted business alliance that encompasses technology, product collaboration and joint marketing. Integral to the agreement, Palm's Solutions Group has selected TI's OMAP(TM) processor
platform to power a set of next-generation handheld solutions, and TI's
wireless GSM /GPRS / 3G technology
Telcontar, a leading supplier of software and services for real-time location-based solutions and telematics expects both in-car telematics and 3G wireless services to gain advantage from new spatial manipulation technology currently being rolled out.
With the first live UMTS connection in Russia, Siemens Information and Communication Mobile (IC Mobile) has offered further proof of its lead in the field of third generation (3G) mobile networks.
Group 3G roaming agreement
Group 3G, the German mobile phone operator of the Telefónica Móviles Group, has reached an agreement for interconnection on UMTS networks with the German operator Deutsche Telekom AG.
With the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup five months away, Korea's mobile service providers are scrambling to stage sports marketing campaigns to boost their brand recognition on the global market.
NTT DoCoMo Inc, Japan's top mobile operator, said yesterday that its partner in Europe, KPN Mobile NV, will launch a European mobile Internet service similar to DoCoMo's hugely successful i-mode service.
3G does not make economic sense: Meteor
Irish telecoms group Meteor today described the newly-launched 3G licences as "too expensive" to make economic sense. Speaking with Business & Finance, Meteor general manager Dave Sims said it was very difficult to see a business case for applying for the licence. However, he did confirm that Meteor would be regrouping its previously disbanded 3G team to study the licence conditions.
To support a major effort by Korea Telecom FreeTel (KTF) to create and launch wireless internet and multimedia services, SolidStreaming today announced that it has entered two Memorandum of Understandings (MOUs) with KTF, a subsidiary of Korean Telecom, as the wireless operator's solution provider for its wireless multimedia or video-on-demand (VOD) services to KTF's more than eight million subscribers.
BEA Systems, Inc., Borland Software Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM, Oracle and Sun Microsystems, Inc., the leading IT infrastructure and application server vendors, today announced their support for the open mobile architecture initiative, reflecting growing endorsement of an open standards based mobile architecture that will drive the adoption of mobile software and services.
Emblaze Systems Ltd. and Motorola, Inc's Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS) today announced they have agreed to port the Emblaze MPEG4 multimedia player to Motorola's DragonBall(TM)MX1 microprocessor.
Partner Communications Company Ltd announced today that the Tender Committee of the Ministry of Communications has informed the Company that as a result of an auction process held today Partner will be awarded a 2G band (1800 spectrum) and a 3G band of spectrum.
The awards are subject to final approval by the Minister of Communications.
TUESDAY DECEMBER 18th NEWS FOLLOWS
English-speaking cell-phone subscribers in Europe will next year be the first to get their hands on Stinger mobile phones, handsets based on software developed by Microsoft and designed to take advantage of the data capabilities offered by 3G (third-generation) mobile networks.
When telecom companies first began to tout the possibilities of new, third-generation mobile phone networks, the idea of a phone that could take, send and receive photographs was one of the prominent items on the list.
Vodafone and Verizon are to work together with a number cellphone manufacturers to develop 3G wireless handsets that will work on both the UMTS and US cdma2000 third-generation (3G) standards
ART today adopted a decision defining the methods and conditions for attributing the 3G authorisations remaining after the first call for tenders. This decision, which takes into account the changes announced recently by the French Government regarding the 3G authorisation payments and duration, was submitted to the Secretary of State for Industry.
Customer Care and Billing (CCB) Strategies Will Fundamentally Affect European Operators' Future Competitiveness
ANADIGICS, Inc, a leading supplier of wireless and broadband communications solutions, today introduced a new high linearity gain block amplifier designed for use in wireless infrastructure equipment applications.
PMC-Sierra today announced the PM2360-KIT Gandalf reference design kit, a full reference platform for advanced 3G wireless base station designs based on PMC-Sierra's PM7815 PALADIN-15(TM) product.
Combining the wireless technology and product portfolios of the two companies will uniquely position the new entity to drive the evolution of RF integration for all major air interfaces, including CDMA and GSM, and complete semiconductor and software solutions for advanced 2.5G and 3G applications.
Nokia has successfully upgraded its 3G WCDMA network to the commercial standard level known as 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Program) Release 99 June2001 version.
MONDAY DECEMBER 17TH NEWS FOLLOWS
A local paper has reported NEC and Panasonic Telecom have planned to join hands with China's major telecom operators to co-develop the 3G mobile phones.
The problem for phone companies, which have committed billions to 3G, is that they do not really know what people will want to do with these futuristic services. And they are still not sure how they should charge people for these services; or if the technology will really work properly.
At the Lehman Brothers Telecommunications Conference in Florida USA last week, John Zeglis CEO of AT&T confirmed the company expects to spend $1 billion on its final 3G network upgrade.
3G Wireless : USA 4 years behind world ?
Despite much debate in a Senate hearing last summer, the United States is not much closer to its goal of finding spectrum for 3G wireless services. In light of current national security issues, some delay may be necessary. But a delay of two more years—as set forth in a Senate bill passed in September—could now put the United States as much as four years behind the rest of the world
European phone companies are banking on revenue from faster data services to pull them out of the doldrums - but they haven't really figured out how, or how much, to charge for such services.
A local paper has confirmed that a major telecom park is to be established in Japan. NEC Corp. will set up a next-generation cell phone software development center in Yokosuka, just south of Tokyo.
Check Point Software Technologies and Nokia have expanded their four-year-old alliance, under which they will work to develop security solutions, including wireless network security products. With this partnership, both companies have aligned their strategies in terms of engineering, to deliver security infrastructure offerings.
The Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group (IC Mobile) has been awarded a contract by the Chinese mobile operator China Mobile Communications Corporation (CMCC) to expand the GSM network in Sichuan Province. The contract is worth US$ 77 million and covers the delivery and installation of mobile switching technology.
Continuing to address the growing momentum for short-distance wireless connectivity, Texas Instruments Incorporated today announced it has shipped over 1.5 million semiconductor chips to clients engaged in the emerging Bluetooth market. According to market analysts IMS, an estimated total of 10 million units of silicon will be shipped to the worldwide Bluetooth market in 2001.
Attention has turned to revenue and revenue sharing – and with good reason. Mobile operators are looking for revenue models, which are able to both ensure a return on the large GPRS and UMTS investments, and make it attractive for content providers to develop and market mobile services
FRIDAY DECEMBER 14TH NEWS FOLLOWS
China Unicom, the second-biggest telecom service provider in China, will launch code division multiple access (CDMA) service January 8, South Korea's Information and Communication Vice Minister Kim Dong-sun said Friday.
The Swedish mobile internet company Mediabricks will be the first to use of VIOMA's newly launched product, VIOMA Integration Server. Mediabricks is a software company that develops infrastructure for media rich services on mobile devices. Mediabricks product offering is based on a patented innovation providing a superior end-user experience. The primary customer groups are GPRS and 3G operators.
Effnet announces the successful completion of a second round of 3G mobile telephone interoperability testing in Tucson, Arizona. Mobile telephone vendors Ericsson and Siemens participated this round with Effnet in a series of tests to verify the interoperability of systems that use a new IP header compression protocol that dramatically improves response times, error rates, and voice and image quality for Internet Protocol services delivered over 3G wireless phones.
The Czech Republic officially awarded two third-generation UMTS phone licences on Friday, ending a drawn out process that has left the government with only a fraction of the revenues it had hoped for.
Calaba's pioneering wireless directory and search service has been chosen by mmO2 subsidiary Manx Telecom as the search engine for Europe's first commercial 3G network, which was switched on this week.
Ericsson's new compact and high-capacity switch, the AXE 810, is now ready for deliveries.
The AXE810 takes up just one-third of the space previous models did. In addition, quality improvements and capacity for easy expansion make it one of the main components for migration to 3G networks.
COM DEV International Ltd. today confirmed that its M/ERGY(TM) wireless infrastructure has been deployed by SK Telecom in the 3G high speed wireless data field service
demonstration which it has commenced in Seoul Korea.
LG Telecom and Thin Multimedia, Inc., today signed an agreement stipulating that both companies will collaborate to provide mobile video services to LG Telecom's 4.5 Million PCS subscribers in Korea, launching in the first quarter of 2002.
Motorola’s Semiconductor Products Sector has announced a revolutionary invention allowing the design of highly cost and size efficient RF Power Amplifier (PA) solutions. This invention, called the High Impedance Integrated Power Amplifier (HIIPA), changes the paradigm of traditional 50-ohm PA modules, where passive components are added as discrete devices onto a printed circuit board with a PA chip.
Centennial Dominicana and Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) today announced the completion of the first third-generation (3G) CDMA2000 1X wireless data call in the Dominican Republic. The call is a significant milestone as Centennial's CDMA2000 network expansion continues. Lucent is supplying equipment for the network under a U.S.$16 million agreement between the two companies.
The new WSI digital power amplifier delivers more than 12% efficiency - representing at least a 3% improvement over traditional feed forward solutions - as well as using considerably reduced RF silicon for greater reliability and cost-efficiency.
A new study undertaken by the HPI Research Group on behalf of Nokia has highlighted the potential for the mobile entertainment services in 3G. The study demonstrated that the core mobile-phone market (16 - 45 year olds) was excited by the pace of technological changes, which they expected would make life more fun and stimulating.
Hi3G has entered into an agreement with NCC regarding the roll-out of infrastructure for the third-generation mobile telecommunication (3G). The agreement covers the construction of at least 500 base stations in Sweden.
A new study undertaken by the HPI Research Group on behalf of Nokia has highlighted the potential for the mobile entertainment services in 3G. The study demonstrated that the core mobile-phone market (16 - 45 year olds) was excited by the pace of technological changes, which they expected would make life more fun and stimulating.
Hi3G has entered into an agreement with NCC regarding the roll-out of infrastructure for the third-generation mobile telecommunication (3G). The agreement covers the construction of at least 500 base stations in Sweden.
THURSDAY DECEMBER 13TH NEWS FOLLOWS
Monaco Telecom, a subsidiary of Vivendi Universal, today began testing mobile multimedia applications over the principality's UMTS/3G network, together with Siemens and NEC. Siemens and NEC supplied the third generation mobile network, the mobile devices and the multimedia applications.
Orange today issues the following response to the decision by the Director General of Telecommunications to ask the Competition Commission to investigate the price of calling mobile phones.
Enabling international roaming for general packet radio service (GPRS) is a prerequisite for the take-off of this new mobile data service, according to GPRS Roaming: technical options and strategic implications, a new report published today by Analysys, the global advisor on telecoms and new media www.analysys.com
Finnish mobile operators have explored the possibility to cooperate in constructing third generation UMTS networks. Vesa Mars, who heads Telia Mobile in Finland, confirms that the operators have discussed the possibility, but denies any official negotiations.
eServGlobal Ltd , a global technology company specialising in Enhanced Services systems for telecommunications networks, today announced that it has proven a range of enhanced data services for mobile networks including a Real Time Pre-Paid data solution.
SeeBeyond, the leading global provider of eBI solutions, and B4E, the innovative Frankfurt based billing system provider for the telecommunication market, today announced an alliance to support service operators in dealing with the increasing speed of change and cost pressure in the telecommunications industry.
The IT integrator Dimension is strengthening and concentrating its offering for the telecom sector by forming a new company focused on IT infrastructure solutions for third-generation mobile networks.
Nokia and Check Point Software Technologies today announced an expanded alliance whereby the two companies have tightly aligned their strategies, engineering, innovation priorities, and resources at virtually all levels of the two organizations to deliver an unmatched combination of security infrastructure solutions.
Spectra Licensing Group, the North American licensing agent for France Telecom, announces amnesty for ASIC, equipment manufacturers, and IP Core Providers worldwide on back royalties for Turbo Code implementations. Turbo Codes have been adopted into third generation (3G) wireless standards such as 3GPP (CDMA2000) and 3GPP2 (WCDMA) and as such are an element of a fully compatible 3G chipset.
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 12TH NEWS FOLLOWS
Spectra Licensing Group, the North American licensing agent for France Telecom, announces amnesty for ASIC, equipment manufacturers, and IP Core Providers worldwide on back royalties for Turbo Code implementations. Turbo Codes have been adopted into third generation (3G) wireless standards such as 3GPP (CDMA2000) and 3GPP2 (WCDMA) and as such are an element of a fully compatible 3G chipset.
The Ministry of Information Industry (MII) has selected 11 telecoms equipment vendors to take part in the technical trial of the third generation (3G) mobile telecoms system which will start at the beginning of next year, company sources revealed.
These companies will showcase their technologies on wide band code division multiple access (WCDMA), one of three 3G standards, sources said.
China Unicom is making final preparations for the nation's first nationwide code division multiple access (CDMA) telecom network. The network switching of the original 600,000 CDMA customers has started, according to Lu Jianguo, vice-president of the company.
New (VoIP) processing chips for 3G (third generation) wireless infrastructure
Zarlink Semiconductor (NYSE/TSE:ZL) is sampling two new devices that set price, capacity and performance benchmarks for converting TDM (time division multiplexing) voice traffic to IP (internet protocol) packets.
LG InfoComm, a leading worldwide provider of communications equipment and solutions, today announced that it has three Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) 2000 handsets that will support 1xRTT advanced wireless networks scheduled for launch in the U.S. market. The LG TP5250, VX-1 and VX-9000 will all be capable of achieving a maximum packet data transmission of 144 kbps, or ten times the capacity of the current generation CDMA networks.
Generic Media, creators of innovative technology and services for the digital media industry, today announced the incorporation of PacketVideo technology into the Generic Media Publishing Service. Generic Media customers will now have the ability to stream digital content across the NTT DoCoMo FOMA network and onto media-enabled 3G cellular phones using the same source file they would use for streaming to PCs or PDA devices.
BitFlash(TM) announced today that it and Texas Instruments (TI) are collaborating to deliver the first application of mobile scalable vector graphic (SVG) technology on TI's high-performance, power efficient OMAP(TM) platform.
SpeechWorks International, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPWX), a global leader in speech recognition and text-to-speech (TTS) technologies and services, today announced that it has developed an application for Texas Instruments'(TI) (NYSE: TXN) family of OMAP(TM) wireless processors for 2.5 and third generation (3G) mobile Internet devices.
Industry experts foresee slow recovery for troubled telecommunications markets despite many serious challenges, and rank its priorities, in the "Telecom Outlook Report: Millennial Edition" (TOR) available in January 2002.
Philips is going mobile at Streaming Media East 2001 by demonstrating the viability of its ISO-compliant MPEG-4 solutions in the wireless IP market. As interest grows in what the next generation of mobile and wireless devices will offer in the way of content, Philips will be showcasing available solutions enabling operators and service providers to stream high quality video and audio multimedia content over wireless and broadband platforms.
GNP Computers, a leading developer of system framework architecture for the embedded application market, today announced support of "blade-only" configurations of Continuant Cluster Suite, its high-availability platform that provides greater than 99.999 percent uptime to voice and data network applications.
TUESDAY DECEMBER 11TH NEWS FOLLOWS
Network365, a leading provider of world-class application platforms enabling the mobile lifestyle, has been selected by mmO2, formerly known as BT Wireless, to deliver mobile commerce services over 3G networks. Network365 is participating in a 12 month trial of 3G services to residents on the Isle of Man in partnership with Manx Telecom, a fully owned subsidiary of mmO2.

A new partnership is set to accelerate the development of 3G devices and networks, by providing network operators with powerful diagnostic and testing tools. UbiNetics, a world-leading next-generation wireless communications technology company, and PrairieComm, an industry-leading 3G baseband processor developer, have signed an alliance agreement covering the supply of a multi-mode, multi-band UMTS/GSM/GPRS baseband processor for 3G terminals.

Offering the industry's highest performance for high data rate digital communications applications, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today introduced a new high-speed, high-resolution and LVDS compatible digital-to-analog converter (DAC).
Wireless CDMA and $50 Billion opportunity in China over next 5 years
Qiao Xing Universal Telephone, Inc. (N, China's second largest telephone manufacturer, today announced its entry into China's emerging GSM and CDMA telephone markets through a strategic alliance with Shenzhen Zhongxing Telecommunication Ltd. (ZTE Corporation), one of China's largest telecommunications equipment manufacturers.
CommWorks Corporation, a leader in wireless data access technologies, announced today it will provide third generation (3G) technology to TELUS Mobility, a leading provider of wireless voice, data and Internet services across Canada.
Next generation wireless subscriber devices, such as handsets and wireless PDAs, represent the evolution of a new computing platform.
Orange is the only mobile group offering practical data services for business with wide international roaming, according to a new report from BRC Consultancy Ltd, London. BRC examined the mobile data initiatives of the world's top 13 operator groups, and found that Orange is the only choice today for serious traveling users who need to access corporate office systems.
One of the most notable research findings indicated that 90 percent of worldwide professionals and telecommuters will adopt wireless data solutions by 2005 to stay in touch. Most will want portable cellular wireless solutions that can support downloads in the 300 Kbps range while moving at pedestrian speeds.
mmO2 plc today announced that its UK business, BT Cellnet, has become the first mobile operator to agree commercial GSM roaming terms for another licensed mobile operator within the UK.
Dual Mode ( 2G/ 3G ) voice and data agreement in UK
Hutchison 3G UK ("Hutchison 3G") holder of the UMTS licence for the largest block of spectrum in the UK, today announced it has signed an agreement with BT Cellnet to provide the establishment and operation of 2G national voice and data roaming.
MONDAY DECEMBER 10TH NEWS FOLLOWS
3G Live in Latin America
Monday December 10th -- Puerto Rico boasts Latin America’s first third generation (3G) mobile Internet services, after a joint venture with Lucent Technologies allowed Centennial to launch the island’s first CDMA 1X network.
Monday December 10th -- Japans NEC Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. plan to develop third-generation (3G) mobile phones in China in cooperation with local companies, according to a new report issued in China by local consultants.
3G handset testing product milestone from Anite Telecoms
Monday December 10th -- Anite’s U-SAT 3G User Equipment (UE) Test Platform, which was previously focused on layers 2, 3 and above, now includes a comprehensive layer 1 test capability.
New Billing Protocol for CDMA, TDMA, GSM, IDEN, and 3G air interface technologies
Monday December 10th -- IBERNET, a subsidiary of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA), announced today the release of its new Mobile Xchange Protocol (MXP) designed to permit the wireless industry to bill for non-traditional (i.e. non-voice) services.
The Basics of 2.5G / 3G Wireless Communications : At Consumer Electronics Show
Monday December 10th -- Mobile computing and communications devices are becoming user-friendly, high-speed wireless data networks needed to support them are being implemented, and attendees at the International Consumer Electronics Show
Czech cell phone giants win 3G licenses
Monday December 10th -- Two Czech mobile phone operators bid above expectations for third-generation (3G) licences, fair value according to analysts but only about half what the government had hoped for when the process started last year.
New Multi-Chip Package for 3G Phones
Monday December 10th -- Fujitsu Limited today announced the launch of a new four-stacked multi-chip package (MCP) product equipped with a pair of 64-Mb NOR dual-operation flash memory chips, 32-Mb mobile FCRAM (*1) with asynchronous SRAM interface and 8-Mb SRAM, for the world's largest memory capacity among MCPs. The new product, MB84VZ064A, goes on sale starting today.
New MPEG-4 Video Camera Design for Wireless Cellphones and PDAs
Friday December 7th -- Emblaze Research, a fully-owned subsidiary of Emblaze Systems Ltd, and OmniVision Technologies), a leader in CMOS image sensor technologies, announce the availability of EmblazeCam, a reference design for a unique video camera accessory with built-in MPEG-4 compression. This reference design allows people to capture and send pictures and video clips on today’s phones with existing networks, rather than waiting for 2.5G or 3G devices.
TTP Communications announces deal for dual-mode 3G / GSM baseband chipsets
Friday December 7th -- TTP Communications plc, the world leading independent supplier of technology for digital wireless communications, (LSE: TTC)('TTPCom') today announces Toshiba, the world's second largest semiconductor manufacturer as a licensee of TTPCom's 3G technology.
Low-Power OMAP Platform Enables Superior Multimedia and Imaging for 2.5G and 3G
Friday December 7th -- Delivering high-performance, power efficient multimedia capabilities to next generation wireless handsets and portable Internet devices, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) and McubeWorks announced today that McubeWorks will develop complete reference designs for 2.5 and 3G CDMA2000 1x networks based on TI's wireless multimedia technology.
Hughes Software Provides 3G Platform
Friday December 7th -- Hughes Software Systems (HSS) announced it has teamed with Motorola to provide advanced third generation (3G) mobile data protocol hardware/software platforms. These solutions would deliver wireless mobile data telecom infrastructure for OEMs building gateway GPRS service nodes (GGSN), serving GPRS support nodes (SGSN) and home location registers (HLR).
Bank takes wireless advertising on 3G network
Friday December 7th -- Well, MMo2 pull off a major news breaking story. Following on from the launch of its 3G trial on the Isle of Man, they have announced that Smile - the UK Internet bank will advertise on its 3G network. Smile is owned by UK PLc company the Co-Operative Bank.
Optimism for wireless service providers in Europe and Americas
Friday December 7th -- A new study of service providers in North America, Europe and Latin America conducted by Sage Research reveals optimism about mobile IP services while identifying significant deployment challenges. "Most of the wireless service providers in this study have fairly aggressive plans to deploy mobile IP services and applications in the near future.
Friday December 7th -- Motorola Inc. today announced its first Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) infrastructure field trials in Germany will occur in early 2002, based upon a series of successful UMTS tests since September 2001 at the Motorola laboratory based in Wiesbaden, Germany. Motorola will use base stations that conform to European 3GPP Release 99 UMTS specifications and standards for these trials.
Friday December 7th -- Ericsson has been selected by mobile satellite operator Inmarsat Ltd for the development of its next generation core network for the company's Broadband Global Area Network (B-GAN), planned for launch in 2004. The contract is valued at USD 55 million.
Friday December 7th --NEC Corp, Japan's biggest cellphone maker, said on Thursday it was still on track to deliver volume shipments of third-generation mobile phones to Europe next July-September, shooting down reports of a delay.
Friday December 7th -- Logica the global solutions company and leading supplier of mobile messaging and payments has today announced a live trial implementation of its multimedia messaging service (MMS) with Orange, the UK’s most popular mobile phone service.
Thursday December 6th -- Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corp. and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp. on Nov. 30 launched sales of ISDN video telephones called "Moppet," which can communicate with video phones for the FOMA service. FOMA is NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s new third-generation mobile phone service.
Thursday December 6th -- Kabira Technologies Inc., a provider of server and infrastructure software for the creation and deployment network- based applications and services, and Mitsui & Co., Ltd, Japan's largest general trade facilitator, announced today that Mitsui has become the Master Distributor of Kabira solution frameworks and infrastructure software in Japan.
Thursday December 6th -- WJ Communications, a leading designer and supplier of high-performance radio frequency (RF) components for communications equipment manufacturers, today announced the expansion of its MMIC mixer line with two low-cost high linearity models. These passive gallium arsenide (GaAs) IC mixers are ideally suited for 3G UMTS wireless infrastructure equipment.
Thursday December 6th -- NTT DoCoMo said it will soon offer subscribers the option to have the same phone number for two phones - an i-mode model and a 3G FOMA handset - in an effort to overcome the limited coverage of its new 3G network.
Thursday December 6th -- CIBERNET, a subsidiary of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA), announced today the release of its new Mobile Xchange Protocol (MXP) designed to permit the wireless industry to bill for non-traditional (i.e. non-voice) services.
Thursday December 6th -- UbiNetics and Actix, the network optimization specialist, have joined forces to help network operators and vendors iron out problems in early 3G networks.
Thursday December 6th -- RadiSys Corp announced today a complete suite of CompactPCI PICMG 2.16-compliant telecom platform elements including a network processor solution, an SS7 adapter and an integrated switch with IPMI (intelligent platform management interface) manager.
Wednesday December 6th --Norway's leading mobile operator, Telenor, has appointed Allgon, the global supplier of radio-based infrastructure solutions, as exclusive supplier of GSM and UMTS repeaters. Continuing a long customer relationship, the agreements cements Allgon's position as one of the leading repeater suppliers in the competitive wireless market.
Wednesday December 6th -- Europe's first fully operational third generation (3G) network has been switched on, it was announced today by mmO2. Manx Telecom, a wholly owned subsidiary of mmO2, is now developing a range of mobile data applications over its Isle of Man network using 3G handsets and other devices.
Wednesday December 5th -- SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., (SANYO) a world leader in consumer electronics and electronic devices, and Eastman Kodak Company (Kodak) a global leader of photographic and digital image products have established a joint venture company for the manufacturing of Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) displays.
Wednesday December 5th -- The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) has today released an industry consultation paper on the proposed policy approach to 3G infrastructure sharing in Singapore. The aim of this paper is to gather views and comments from the industry and public on the role of 3G infrastructure sharing in the deployment and rollout of 3G networks and services in Singapore by licensed 3G operators.
Wednesday December 5th -- Hutchison 3G UK, ("Hutchison 3G"), holder of the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) license for the largest block of spectrum in the UK, today announced that it has appointed Bureau Veritas, a world leader in conformity assessment services, to undertake radio emissions testing on every base station in the company's UK 3G network.
Wednesday December 5th -- Unity Wireless Corporation (OTCBB: UTYW) announces the delivery of the Company’s latest generation RF power amplifiers to potential new customers for evaluation and testing in direct response to RFQs (request for quotations) received this year. Projects in CDMA, GSM, W-CDMA and DTV formats currently underway have combined revenue potential in excess of US$ 26 million.
Wednesday December 5th -- Atmel Corporationannounced today the availability of the single 5-V direct quadrature modulator T0790 operating at 800 - 2500 MHz. This new standard RF device manufactured in Atmel's advanced SiGe technology provides outstanding noise floor performance. The broad range of applications includes digital infrastructure systems for cellular mobile telephones such as GSM/ DCS/ PCS/ UMTS/ CDMA2000 and ISM
Wednesday December 5th -- Vodafone Group R&D (Vodafone) Germany and Softwired AG (Softwired) Switzerland have announced an agreement to work together on a "Rapid Prototyping Environment" for Java based services.
Wednesday December 5th -- Catapult Communications, a leading provider of advanced software-based test systems for the digital telecom industry, today announced that it now supports over 200 network protocols and variants.
Wednesday December 5th -- The introduction of next-generation wireless networks has brought focus on MPEG-4 as the adopted multimedia platform for next generation mobile devices, including ‘2.5G’ and ‘3G’ products. Philips has already successfully demonstrated high quality MPEG-4 content streaming to GPRS handsets at a number of major events during 2001.
Wednesday December 5th -- Annual growth of approximately 20% per annum, seen expected over the next five years but Average Selling Price will fall to $99. At 33 million units, handset volume in the CALA region is essentially flat in 2001. "However, beginning in 2002 volume will grow approximately 20% per year for the next several years, increasing to 76 million units by 2006.
Wednesday December 5th -- MMO2 Plc ( the old BT Wireless ), one of the largest wireless companies in Europe, started offering 3G services on the Isle of Man in the UK- the first in Europe. This is really a large-scale trial to prove technology and handsets. The Isle of Man has a population 0f 74,000. Visit http://www.manxtelecom.com/ for more details.
Wednesday December 5th --The UMTS Forum believes that Wireless Local Area Network (W-LAN) technology will complement rather than compete with the market opportunity for 3G mobile services.
Tuesday December 4th --Craig Wireless International Inc. today announced that they will bring the world's first advanced 3G Broadband wireless Internet access delivery system to Vancouver's business and residential markets. Superior to DSL, and free from phone and cable lines, the new technology will provide a truly portable wireless solution to Internet users on the road with their laptop, in the office, or at home.
Tuesday December 4th -- CommWorks, a leader in wireless data networking technology, today achieved another milestone in the rollout of third-generation (3G) wireless networks with the announcement of commercial availability of standards-based products that operate with Lucent Technologies’ 3G packet data products. Deploying these compatible 3G wireless network products enables mobile operators to provide “always on” mobile Internet connections to mobile devices.
Tuesday December 4th -- QUALCOMM Incorporated , pioneer and world leader of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, today announced the RFT5600™ baseband-to-radio frequency (RF) transmit processor. The RFT5600 device performs all transmit (Tx) signal processing functions required in wireless CDMA handsets between the analog baseband output from the Mobile Station Modem (MSM™) chip and power amplifier (PA) for IS-95A/B and 3G CDMA2000 1X applications.
Tuesday December 4th -- TimesTen Performance Software today announced that Nokia Networks has selected TimesTen's real-time data management software to embed within a range of future wireless infrastructure products. Nokia Networks will use the TimesTen(R) in-memory database for time-critical network data management functions, where it can be used by a range of network elements and value-added 3G applications.
Tuesday December 4th -- Siemens Information and Communication Mobile LLC and Cingular Wireless have signed a three year agreement for the supply of GSM (Global System for Mobile Telecommunications) mobile network infrastructure.
Tuesday December 4th -- Cingular Wireless has selected Ericsson as a principle long-term
strategic partner for upgrading and expanding its wireless network. The partnership enables Cingular to build a nationwide state-of-the-art wireless network and to deliver third-generation services.
Tuesday December 4th -- 3G, the world's premier website for 3G Telecom News and Information has acquired the website UMTS.co.uk. The website was acquired for an undisclosed amount and 3G successfully bid for UMTS against other companies for this important third-generation telecom website.
Monday December 3rd To further enable application developers to deliver 2.5G and 3G applications for mobile devices, Texas Instruments today introduced the Code Composer Studio(tm) Integrated Development Environment (IDE) v2 for the OMAP(tm) platform.
Monday December 3rd -- Cingular Wireless selects Nokia as a main supplier to its GSM/EDGE network nationwide in deal estimated at over one billion USD Nokia solution to help Cingular optimize its radio spectrum in migration toward high-speed 3G services for the United States.
Monday December 3rd -- 3G, the world's premier website for 3G Telecom News and Information has acquired the website UMTS.co.uk. The website was acquired for an undisclosed amount and 3G successfully bid for UMTS against other companies for this important third-generation telecom website.
Monday December 3rd -- NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that it will begin marketing Personal Handyphone System (PHS) handsets compatible with BluetoothTM*1 Ver. 1.1, a world standard for wireless communication between mobile phones, PCs, and other devices.
Monday December 3rd -- Award-Winning Mobile Phones Perfect for All Types, From Wired Professionals to Young Hipsters Mobile handset manufacturer LG is proud to be offering two of its most popular handsets for this season's holiday shopping. Available in stores nationwide, the TM510 and the TP5200 both feature LG InfoComm's innovative external LCD, allowing the mobile user on the go to identify who's calling without even opening the phone.
Monday December 3rd -- China’s Ministry of Information Industry plans to conduct trials of W-CDMA networks as early as this January. The MII has selected a group of international and domestic companies to supply equipment and expertise for the 3G trial, to be conducted by the MII’s Research Institute of Telecommunications Transmission and 3G Technical Trial Expert Group at a newly set up environment called MTNet.
Monday December 3rd -- UTStarcom Inc., a leading provider of wireless, wireline and broadband access equipment, was officially chosen by the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) as one of a select group of participants in China's technical trial of 3G mobile networks based on the 3GPP WCDMA standard.
Monday December 3rd -- Third generation mobile telephony, 3G, and its forerunner GPRS will bring a host of new and complex services to the market. To ensure business success, it is imperative for telecom operators to find the right pricing models.
Monday December 3rd -- France said it was cutting the cost of 3G mobile phone licenses to encourage operators to take-up licenses which they did not previously sell. The finance office of the ministry stated operators should now pay a one-off fee of 620 million euros for each license and will charge one percent ( variable ) of incomes made from the next generation phones.

 

 

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