| Vodafone Customers First to Watch Live Eurosport on 3G Mobiles |
| 3rd
April, 2005 ( see
below for all today's 3G news ) |
|
By simply clicking on the 'Live TV & Video' category of Vodafone live! on their UMTS handset, Vodafone customers get access to the Eurosport TV channel, enabling them to view their favorite sport anytime and anywhere. Television broadcasts can be simultaneously viewed live on a Vodafone live! UMTS phone, including the Dutch commentary. Over 20 TV channels Previous to the launch of live Eurosport, Vodafone customers were already able to watch over 20 TV channels like CNN, Playboy Channel, 2GOTV and MTV. Vodafone live! UMTS not only enables customers to enjoy services like television on their mobile, video telephony and video clips but through UMTS they can also use the broad range of services like voice, SMS, MMS, E-mail, Ringtones, Games and live! sites. The new content offering underlines Vodafone's number one position in UMTS with the widest range of handsets, best coverage, most extensive content against the most attractive tariffs: Vodafone customers only pay 25 Eurocents for watching 10 minutes TV on their mobile. Vodafone Libertel N.V. Vodafone is one of the Netherlands' largest mobile telecommunication companies and is a member of the worldwide Vodafone Group, the world's biggest telecommunication company for mobile telephony serving over 151 million proportionate customers in five continents. The Vodafone Group has participating interests in the share capital of mobile operators in 26 countries. The Vodafone Group also has partner agreements with networks in 14 countries. Eurosport Group The Eurosport Group is the leading multimedia platform in Europe with Eurosport, Eurosport 2, eurosport.com and Eurosportnews. The pan-European channel Eurosport, available in 19 different languages, reaches 100 million homes and 240 million viewers across 54 countries. Eurosport 2, the new sports channel launched in January 2005, is already transmitted to 13 million households in four languages across 35 different countries. Eurosport.com, available in five languages, is one of the leading pan-European sports websites with 3.1 million unique visitors per month. Eurosportnews provides up-to-date worldwide sports news and is transmitted worldwide. |
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| Today's
3G News |
| Bridge Chip Offers 3G HSDPA Speeds |
| Elan's new VMB5000 Bridge Chip provides the only commercially available custom-built solution for translating the USB or UART signals from HSDPA modem chips or modules into PCMCIA or CF format in a single chip. |
| Vodafone Customers First to Watch Live Eurosport on 3G Mobiles |
| As of today Vodafone customers can watch live Eurosport on their Vodafone live! UMTS handset. |
| Ultra-sharp LCD Mobile Images at a 160-degree Viewing Angle |
| Samsung has developed a new design for mobile displays 10 inches or smaller that allows viewing of ultra-sharp LCD images at a 160-degree viewing angle in a variety of low or high ambient lighting conditions. |
| 47% of IT Managers Set to Deploy Smartphones |
| Enterprise interest in Smartphone adoption has rebounded sharply with almost half of all IT managers saying they would consider deploying them as business tools, |
| Nokia 3G Phone and Stand Wins Award |
| "For Nokia, winning the iF product design award affirms Nokia's competence in design," says Eero Miettinen, Design Director, Nokia. |
| Orange and the Official UK Charts Company |
| From April 2005 every Orange customer that downloads a music track to their mobile could help make their favourite pop stars become UK chart toppers. |
NEC
Electronics introduced the µPD9971 melody chip for mobile phones,
which offers a superior three-dimensional positioning technology, sound
effects, and an industry-first 128 polyphonic tones. |
The
solution supports high-speed 1x EV-DO multimedia applications and can
be deployed easily due to its simple wall-mounted installation. |
With
the launch of EDGE, Swisscom is introducing Switzerland's first broadband
mobile network with nationwide coverage. EDGE makes high-speed data
transmission possible wherever mobile calls can be made on the NATEL®
network. |
3G
mobile operators have little incentive to offer VoIP services as W-CDMA
offers the cost and capacity attributes to support fixed–mobile
substitution. Wireless VoIP presents fixed operators, MVNOs and VoIP
providers with opportunities to disrupt the mobile voice market. |
Hutchison
Whampoa Limited (HWL) today announced the Group’s annual results
for 2004, and disclosed a current updated subscriber figure on its global
network, which includes Italy, the UK, Australia, Austria, Sweden, and
Denmark; as well as Hong Kong and Israel, which are under Hutchison
Telecommunications International Limited (HTIL). |
Subscribers
can watch what happens in the house live-streamed on their video-enabled
mobile phones. Big Brother is one of the most successful mobile content
services offered by 3 Sweden. |
Mobiltel
won the UMTS A Class license tender for a 20-year term. The tender included
a secret bidding and took two hours. The closing bid achieved –
which is also the winning one for Mobiltel - amounted to BGN 78 million. |
Orange
has launched technical and marketing trials of UMTS TDD (TD-CDMA) targeting
the enterprise market in Lille, France with equipment supplied by IPWireless,
the companies announced today. |
Orange
has launched technical and marketing trials of UMTS TDD (TD-CDMA) targeting
the enterprise market in Lille, France with equipment supplied by IPWireless,
the companies announced today. |
SUNDAY
Communications announced its annual result for the 2004 financial year,
reporting a net profit of HK$6 million after deduction of HK$43 million
in 3G costs, and its intention to launch 3G services in the second quarter
of 2005. |
Wireless
Valley Communications, a pioneering developer of innovative software
solutions for wireless network design and management, today announced
that it has enhanced its SitePlanner(R) and EnterprisePlanner(TM) products
to support broader and more powerful design and analysis of CDMA networks. |
PacificNet Inc., a leading provider of value-added telecom services
(VAS) in China, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement
to acquire a 51% controlling interest in Guangzhou 3G Information Technology
Co., Ltd. |
Following
the lead of CSL, mobile operators worldwide are deploying the Helix
Universal Mobile platform to help bridge the speed gaps between 3G,
Edge and GPRS data networks. |
Convergys
Corporation announced its Infinys (TM) Rating and Billing software has
"gone live" for Hong Kong mobile network operator, SmarTone
(SEHK:0315). |
Europe
: As of today Vodafone customers can watch live Eurosport on their Vodafone
live! UMTS handset. Vodafone is the first and currently only operator
in the Netherlands to offer its customers live access to the Eurosport
television channel on a mobile phone. 
