| 3G World Congress and Exhibition 2005 in Hong Kong |
| 19th
April, 2005 ( see
below for all today's 3G news ) |
| ASIA : Institute for International Research (IIR) Ltd announced today that the 3G World Congress and Exhibition 2005 will be held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on November 14-18. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the leading event in Asia for global mobile and wireless industry covering all 3G and emerging wireless technologies. New elements including the "Networking Area" and the "WiMAX Village" will be added to this year's event. Together with a projected increase of more than 50% exhibition space, the 3G World Congress and Exhibition 2005 is poised to provide the best platform for the industry to convene and network. "With operator roll-outs worldwide gathering strong momentum, increased industry investment, and a critical mass of over 140 million subscribers in more than 50 countries at the end of 2004, 3G has finally arrived," said Daniel Kirwin, Managing Director of Asia, IIR - the organizer of the 3G World Congress and Exhibition. "Covering all 3G and emerging wireless technologies including CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA, WCDMA, WiMAX, WiBro, DMB/DVB-H and HSDPA, the 3G World Congress and Exhibition is Asia's leading venue to network with customers and industry partners, strengthen market positioning and branding, and promote the latest developments in the industry." Networking Area powered by Cisco Systems New for this year's 3G World Congress and Exhibition, the "Networking Area" sponsored and powered by Cisco Systems will provide a central venue for visitors and exhibitors to access emails and website via wireless broadband network. Cisco will provide convenient wireless access with enhanced security for the "Networking Area." The WiMAX Village Another highlight of the 3G World Congress and Exhibition 2005 is the "WiMAX Village". According to In-Stat*, a leading technology research firm, 8.5 million subscribers worldwide will be using WiMAX-based broadband wireless access services by 2009. Nearly 4.5 million of these wireless broadband subscribers will also subscribe to Voice over WiMAX services. As WiMAX will be a technology under the limelight this year, the "Wireless Village" is dedicated to exhibitors developing WiMAX solutions as a centralized venue for WiMAX developers to demonstrate its benefits to telecom operators. |
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| Today's
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| Wildwave Launches Havoc TV on Vodafone 3G |
| Wildwave today launched the Havoc TV Mobile Music Video channel on Vodafone Live! powered by 3G, The channel is based on Havoc TV Video on demand, which which is currently carried to millions of US households via top cable carriers . |
| 3 UK to launch Football365 m-site |
| ukbetting plc, the online gaming and sports content provider, announced today the launch of its first branded, stand alone, channel on the UK's largest 3G mobile network. |
| 3G World Congress and Exhibition 2005 in Hong Kong |
| This year marks the 10th anniversary of the leading event in Asia for global mobile and wireless industry covering all 3G and emerging wireless technologies. New elements including the "Networking Area" and the "WiMAX Village" will be added to this year's event. |
| Tatara Systems Demonstrates Fixed Mobile Convergence |
| One of the first fixed mobile convergence solutions being offered by Tatara is SMS over IP, which allows communications service providers to seamlessly handoff SMS traffic from their legacy circuit network to an IP network (e.g. over WLAN). |
| Deal Reinforces Nokia's Leading Position in 3GPP Core Networks |
| Nokia has signed an agreement with leading Indonesian operator Telkomsel to expand its packet core network in Indonesia. |
| Rogers First In Canada To Provide Live TV On Cell Phones |
| Rogers Mobile Television service is powered by MobiTV, the world's first network and platform providing live television on wireless phones. |
| 3G Mobile Video Content for Telecom New Zealand |
| Gamer.tv has signed an agreement with Telecom New Zealand to supply video game reviews, previews and features for access by Telecom's T3G customers. |
| Woosh Order with IPWireless Triples its 3G UMTS TDD Network |
| Woosh Wireless and IPWireless announced today that the New Zealand broadband service provider has placed an order for an additional 180 UMTS TDD base stations to expand its New Zealand network. |
| SK Telecom Releases "GXG", Mobile Phone 3D Games |
| SK Telecom has launched a variety of great 3D games that let users enjoy a sense of incredible speed and powerful graphics by upgrading the existing mobile games offered via mobile phone. |
| 3G HSDPA Tipped as a Low-Cost Path to Fast Mobile Broadband |
| Mobile communications infrastructure vendors and carriers, impatiently waiting to offer their customers mobile broadband services, would do well to consider HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) as an economical alternative. |
