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Don't wait for 3G, the money's in SMS 23-10-01
BILLING FOR NEXT-GENERATION SERVICES: MEETING THE CHALLENGE 23-10-01
Third generation (3G) mobile phone services probably won't take off in any significant form in Europe until 2003, but that doesn't mean mobile phone services aren't going to change dramatically in the next few months. Is your billing system keeping up?
Sen. Ernest Hollings Criticizes FCC Spectrum Decision 22-10-01
Is the Wireless Web around the Corner? 22-10-01
Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-South Carolina, criticized the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) decision to encourage broadcasters to establish private deals to free up spectrum for wireless companies, according to Reuters. After two years of promises for "a real wireless Web real soon," the U.S. market's still waiting to see something more than an interim wireless Web offering, and we're still listening to the same excuses about why the real thing can't happen quite yet. Carriers maintain they're doing all they can to push compelling data services out to the mass market: AT&T Wireless, Cingular, and Verizon are experimenting with General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) this fall, and Sprint PCS promises national third-generation (3G) rollouts next year.
5 reasons to be optimistic about 3G 17-10-01
Keep the faith with a Bunch of Fives...
The emergence of the third generation (3G) of mobile services, devices, and networks means that the connected society is here, together with its ubiquitous online services. The architecture and technology to create this vision are already standardized. Products and networks are underway and the different players in the value network are beginning to see their business opportunities
8 Steps to Wireless Applications 16-10-01 PDF file to download
When you're part of the mobile workforce, it doesn't matter whether you're sipping a Starbucks latte over breakfast, in transit at Changi airport, at work or even in the bedroom--the Internet and data services stare you in the face.
This paper presents a managerial and high-level technical overview of developing wireless applications. It introduces an 8 step repeatable process that speeds and simplifies development and discusses the peculiarities of wireless applications. This paper also supplies a case study and follows a project from start to finish.
Pay via your mobile. Will this handy feature succeed in complementing current methods of transactions? 15-10-01
The next generation of mobile communications will soon be here and the smart telcos will hit the ground running. Octavia Wolton reports

Add another dimension to your mobile phone and use it as a wallet. Mint is a company that recently introduced the ewallet concept on the Swedish market, which in the wireless world means paying via your mobile phone.

Japan and 3G 10-10-01
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Wireless video services 09-10-01
NTT Docomo emphasizes multimedia as the main application for future 3G mobile communications. Last year it launched video services for wireless devices in Japan and now these are being transferred to FOMA. Also in other parts of the world does prospects for wireless video seem bright when the deployment of high-speed networks eventually get underway.
Wireless LAN as a complement to 3G Simultaneously with the construction of wide area 3G-networks, wireless local area networks (WLAN) are being built to provide much higher bandwidth in public places like airports, hotels and railway stations. Combined with personal area networks (PAN) using Bluetooth- technology and mobile networks, WLAN will constitute a very important part of the future infrastructure for wireless communications.
Research firm Cahners In-Stat reports that Europe, by virtue of size and choice of a single unified third-generation (3G) wireless standard, will be the largest market for mobile commerce services. Japan's per-capita consumption of mobile commerce services, on the other hand, will exceed that of Europe's.
It was more than one year since the European sector of the telecommunicationes went crazy, mortgaging everything to get the licenses of mobile telephony of the future. The companies, today heavily indebted, have paid thousand billions to get the UMTS licences, an undertaking that in a following time can be considered as the last stupid mistake of the new technologies. After two months, the sector that is under the lowest standard, depends on four letters: UMTS.
October sees a landmark event in the mobile industry - the launch of the first major 3G service, courtesy of NTT DoCoMo. The first five years of 3G will be a trial period for all players involved.
The expansion of the cdmaOne technology has started, everybody usually claims, thanks to the enthusiasm of the Koreans that, with the boom of the subscriptions really in this Asian country, have decreed the success of what has become the second standard of digital mobile telephony in the world. The first one, for number of end users, is our GSM. Certainly, the cdmaOne counts today at least 65 million end users (a bit less than the half only in Korea) and it is the technology of second dominant generation in USA.
3G Cellular Market Opportunities 02-10-01 Wideband Code Division Multiple Access 02-10-01
3G Cellular Market Opportunities looks at the proposals for a 3G cellular standard, discusses which are likely to succeed and how the technology wars are likely to affect companies that participate in the market. It includes regional infrastructure and terminal forecasts for Japan, Europe, and North America. A technology for wideband digital radio communications of Internet, multimedia, video and other capacity-demanding applications. WCDMA, developed by Ericsson and other from CDMA, has been selected for the third generation of mobile telephone systems in Europe, Japan and the United States.
A PDF presentation from Adventis 1MB
This second prepaid industry survey on 'The Next Generation of Prepaid Services', indicates that almost half of total mobile revenues will be derived from prepaid services by 2003.
The availability of 3G services is going to have a profound affect on electronic commerce. In terms of international competitiveness, the 3G race has gotten off to a staggering start. The U.S. is in one lane continuing to analyze the need for additional spectrum to complement our current cellular and PCS spectrum usages.
The report provides a high-level framework that helps set decision-making priorities and identifies key focus areas for service providers striving to outperform competitors in the world of next generation mobile. Also, the report provides a model for assessing mCommerce readiness that can guide development of service providers’ concrete, tactical plans
This mobile technology, which relies on a host of high-tech infrastructure networks, handsets, base stations, switches and other equipment, will give cell phones high-speed Internet access, data, video and CD-quality music capabilities.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., May 15, 2000 - The Wireless LAN market will experience rapid growth over the next several years, generating $785 million of revenue in 2004, according to Cahners In-Stat Group, a high-tech market research firm. The market will be boosted by increased shipments of WLAN chip-sets and WLAN IC components, which will grow at an average yearly rate of 41% and 10% respectively.
Don't dismiss Bluetooth as a challenger to 3G. Read this Arthur Anderson article first. PDF download.
Discusses the security issues associated with WAP and their implications for the evolving mCommerce market. Register first.
Is EDGE dead? Far from it. Considered too slow for TDMA networks, which (some say) would be better off trading their old networks in for cdma2000, EDGE isn’t the sexiest of 3G technologies. But it IS an IMT-2000 standard, and one that may have a larger role in 3G evolution than you might think.

Explains how emerging wireless technologies such as GPRS will change existing business models and improve business efficiency. Register first.
FierceWireless is an independent news organization covering wireless and the mobile Internet. More than 20,000 executives and analysts rely on FierceWireless's free email newsletter, The Weekly Mobile Internet Report, for a quick, objective briefing on the week's top wireless stories. Sign up for free.
In 2000, the worldwide market for information security services grew to approximately $6.7 billion. By the end of 2005, IDC expects this market to more than triple to $21 billion at a compound annual growth rate of approximately 25.5% over the 2000 to 2005 period.
Enabling UMTS / Third Generation Services and 3G Applications 25-09-01
Increased user expectations concerning the performance of wireless data networks is putting pressure on GSM service providers to find new tools to efficiently and effectively optimize their networks
by Roni Abiri
Addresses enablers and drivers that will ensure that the vision of third generation becomes a reality, providing global access and delivery of information services of all kinds.
UMTS Third Generation Report 25-09-01
PARIS (Dow Jones)--French construction and telecommunications group Bouygues SA (F.BOU) said Wednesday that it is in talks with NTT DoCoMo Inc. (J.NTX) about developing the "i-mode" phone services technology owned by the Japanese telecom company
This report completes the major study whose initial results were presented in UMTS Forum Report No. 9. Worldwide 3G service revenue opportunities until 2010 are considered, including regional forecasts for revenues from additional services
Short I-Mode Paper 25-09-01
TOKYO (Dow Jones)--KDDI Corp. (J.KDD or 9433), Japan's No.2 telecom carrier, said Thursday it will postpone the launch of its next-generation 3G mobile phone service to April from autumn.
In PDF form - 85 pages all about I-Mode.
Speaking at a 3G conference Wednesday in Brussels, Liikanen listed three main problems facing the wireless industry: the downward trend in high-tech and telecommunications stocks; the high license costs paid for 3G; and the uncertainty of the untested 3G applications marketplace.
At present the download speed for imode data is limited to 9.6 kbit/sec which is about 6 times slower than an ISDN fixed line connection. However, in actual use the data rates are a lot slower, especially in crowded areas, or when the network is "congested". For third generation mobile (3G) new network hardware and software will be installed which will increase the data rates by a large factor (in the final stages up to 200 times faster).
Report: Wireless Will Power E-Mail Surge European telecoms get desperate
The proliferation of wireless devices is expected to drive up the number of e-mail mailboxes worldwide, from 505 million now to 1.2 billion by 2005. It's not hard to see why Europe's telecommunications companies got in over their heads: just look at the $100 billion the industry spent on third-generation (3G) wireless spectrum auctions in 2000. Now, however, these cash-strapped, debt-ridden companies will have trouble getting the money to build the wireless networks to go with their fancy new spectrum.
European Wireless Location Market Expanding, Says Report

Communications Watch: Wireless market breaking up
While the U.S. wireless industry is developing location services specifically to help people in distress, European carriers are also developing value-added services, according to a new report. Big changes are in store for the wireless industry. The trends over the next year will be the specialization of wireless communications services and the emergence of the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). Developments like these will leave the wireless carriers as we know them today in a serious identity crisis.

Graphics, Sound, and Video on Wireless Devices?

Communications Watch: The spectrum of wireless opportunity
In the last two weeks of August we have seen a spate of product and trial announcements related to the multimedia messaging and streaming video opportunities over wireless devices. Short messaging services (SMS) vendors have been active in preparation for next generation, audio, and graphics-rich messages, while streaming media companies are pushing their players onto new devices (PacketVideo's recent deals with manufacturer Sendo, and Japanese Carrier, NTT DoCoMO, for example). What do you do after you've invented the cell phone, touched off the wireless revolution, and created new markets where there were none before? Well, if you're Martin Cooper, the venerable father of the cell phone, you go into network optimization, the hottest little market under the airwaves.
UMTS is just a small step for telco billing, as GPRS is the giant leap to the land of billing milk and honey 3G Mobile: Future Markets
The move from GSM to GPRS poses huge challenges to mobile operators in terms of their strategic business model, customer care and billing (CCB) solutions and wider business support systems (BSS), particularly rating and mediation. No business is more exciting than wireless communications these days. The imminent arrival of Third Generation Mobile Services promises to bind together two of the fastest growing industry sectors of recent years - Internet access and mobile communications. Interest in this area is huge. Media content providers, IT companies, entrepreneurs, Internet service providers and telecoms operators are all fighting tooth and nail for a slice of this potentially vast new market.
The Dirty Little Secret of Japan's Wireless Webs UK Telecommunications 2001 - The Competition Report
After watching the development of Japan's wireless webs for some 18 months now, we have to admit we're as impressed today as when we ran our first wireless Internet feature in J@pan Inc magazine in June of
last year.
 For almost two decades the UK telecommunications market has enjoyed a reputation as ‘the one to watch’; it was the first in Europe to open its fixed line segment to competition, the first to privatise its national PTO and the first to institute an independent telecoms watchdog. The country has seen competition reduce the cost of international calls by as much as 90%, increase fixed line penetration to 94% and offer almost half of all British households a direct alternative to BT.
3G Headaches Eastern European Telecommunications Titles
Developing content for the next generation of mobile platforms may not be as easy as you think. The Datafile is a 400 page country by country guide to the communications markets in Eastern Europe. It is updated monthly to keep you bang up to date with all the latest market information including regulations, basic telephony, mobile communications, business networks and cable, satellite & multimedia. It includes profiles of 14 countries, over 30 telecoms companies and a directory of key contact names and addresses.The Yearbook of European Telecommunications 2001 offers the same comprehensive coverage as the Datafile but is published annually.

Japanese I-mode services to be offered in Europe by the end of September

 DSL in Europe: Future Markets

By the end of next month, NTT DoCoMo plans to provide I-mode services to Europe for the first time ever via their connection with Dutch telecoms KPN.

Maximising the value of copper has taxed telecoms professionals for years. Since Internet access became a mass market, some would say there has never been a more strategic issue for operators and governments alike. Despite cable programmes and fibre in the loop installation, copper is still the main conduit to homes and businesses
What are Location Services? Broadband Fixed Wireless Access
Location Services deliver information about the geographic location of mobile telecommunications devices. This includes mobile telephones, mobile interactive browsers (i.e., WAP or I-Mode) and devices attached to other moveable items such as people, packages and vehicles. Location Based Services deliver end-user applications based on Location Services. With 'www' increasingly being understood as the 'world-wide-wait', consumers are clamouring for greater bandwidth. Incumbents have been slow to satisfy this latent demand and now many are on the brink of losing their stranglehold on the local loop.

MobilenniuM : The on-line newsletter of the UMTS Forum

  
Reports in the media suggest that the global mobile industry is currently having a bit of a rough ride, beset as it is by falling market capitalisations amongst operators and vendors and a wave of negative publicity over falling demand for mobile communications. Particularly affected has been the 3G business with analysts and the media questioning the high cost of licences and the uncertainty over the potential market for mobile internet type applications.  
3G networks are not the only way of delivering a fast mobile internet  
Just as 3G starts to look feasible, along comes what many see as an alternative: Wireless Local Area Networks, or WLANs. Have the European operators, encouraged by Japan's parallel but license-fee-free project, gambled all the money for nothing?  

3G Testing Report

  
Whatever the timeframe for the eventual mass deployment of future networks, there will be one group that will already have had its share of 3G experiences—the test and measurement (T&M) vendors.
  
Lucent begins delivery of 3G CDMA2000 equipment and software  
The US telecomms equipment maker
Lucent Technologies claims it has become the first vendor in North America to
make 3G CDMA2000 equipment and software commercially available.		  

Third Generation - 3G in Brief - summary

 
The Third Generation of mobile communications systems will soon by implemented. Following on the heals of analog and digital technology, the Third Generation will be digital mobile multimedia offering broadband mobile communications with voice, video, graphics, audio and other information.  
3G Or 3D? To Consumers, It's More Like  
The assumption that mobile commerce will be driven by third-generation (3G) networks is wildly overblown. Given the significant revenues now being generated by telcos' phone-based SMS (Short Message Service) offerings, it is difficult to see a business case for developing content-rich applications charged by data transfer for some time yet (likely 2005+)  
U.S. Wireless Phone Companies by Customers  

These are some of top U.S. wireless-telephone companies ranked by number of subscribers. Numbers are in millions and come from the companies.