| CSL Deploys Solution for 3G Mobile Video |
| 31st
March , 2005 ( see
below for all today's 3G news ) |
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"With Real's Helix mobile platform, operators have a tremendous opportunity to extract continued value from existing networks while familiarizing customers on new high-speed networks and attracting new customers looking for compelling content services such as CSL's 'Video World' service," said Tom Freed, Managing Director, Asia Pacific, RealNetworks, Inc. Customers with CSL's 'Video World' service can today access a range of news, finance, sports, drama, music and entertainment video clips in Chinese and English from world-class program channels. Additionally, CSL 'Video World' customers can also tune into a new leisure guide, as well as funny video, frontline and cartoon channels. "It was important for CSL to be able to continue leveraging existing networks while deploying our new 3G network," said Dr. Tony Seeto, Director of Business Development, CSL. "Real's Helix mobile platform provided CSL with the multi-format and interoperable media framework to launch our comprehensive 'Video World' service on our 3G network, while automatically adapting that same video programming to serve customers on our GPRS and EDGE networks." Real's Helix Universal Mobile platform supports multi-rate streaming of On Demand content using either standards-based or Real's audio and video formats. CSL launched Asia's first multi-rate adaptable video streaming service using standards-based multimedia content, and offers the service on handsets such as the Nokia 6260, 6630, 6670 and 7610 handsets, as well as the Motorola A780. These handsets ship with the standards-compliant RealPlayer Mobile. About RealNetworks' Helix Universal Mobile platform Selected by over 70 mobile operators worldwide, the Helix Universal Mobile platform uniquely addresses the reach and technical complexity of the world's many different GSM and CDMA operators. An end-to-end mobile media solution, the Helix Universal Mobile platform is comprised of the: Helix Universal Server - mobile, Helix Universal Gateway - mobile, Helix Mobile Producer (Standard and Professional versions), Helix Service Delivery Suite, and RealPlayer. RealPlayer ships with devices by 5 of the top 6 mobile handset manufacturers worldwide, and is available on Linux, Openwave Phone Tools v7, PalmOS, Series 60, Symbian and WinCE. Real's mobile solution supports the leading mobile formats including the 3GPP and 3GPP2 standards, H.263, QcCELP, Narrow- and Wide-band AMR and MPEG-4, as well as RealAudio® and RealVideo®. In addition, the platform supports 2.5G, 2.75G and 3G networks, including GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, CDMA2000 and W-CDMA. |
| Today's
3G News |
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). |
Hong
Kong CSL, (CSL), and RealNetworks announced availability of Asia's first
mobile media service enabling customers to watch On Demand video while
transparently switching between CSL's GPRS (2.5G), EDGE (2.75G) and
new UMTS (3G) data networks. |
Convergys
Corporation announced its Infinys (TM) Rating and Billing software has
"gone live" for Hong Kong mobile network operator, SmarTone
(SEHK:0315). Convergys worked with LogicaCMG to complete the implementation
of Infinys, which is supporting the rollout of SmarTone's 3G enabled
service offerings. |
This
new software is for use with the SH-MobileV2 (type name: SH7310) and
SH-Mobile3 (type name: SH73180) incorporating an MPEG-4*3 full hardware
accelerator, and offers the following features. |
Samsung Electronics introduces its first “file viewer” phones
(model name: SPH-V6500, SCH-V650) that allow users to view document
and image files over the mobile phone. |
Telstra
Mobile Broadband data plans are proving a big hit in the 3G business
market with the customer base growing at nearly 50 per cent month-on-month
since launch in November 2004. |
ALLTEL
wireless customers in Tampa, Cleveland and Akron, Ohio, now can download
large, graphic rich files and streaming audio from the Internet to their
laptops through the company's new wireless broadband network. |
Texas
Instruments Incorporated (TI) senior vice president and general manager
of its Wireless Terminals Business Unit, detailed in a Tokyo press conference
today how TI's 3G technology is being widely adopted worldwide. |
Vidiator announced that its VeeStream(TM) platform enabled 3 Sweden
to launch the live broadcast Big Brother reality TV show. |
Agilent
Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced its family of 4 mm by 4 mm
power amplifier (PA) modules featuring CoolPAM technology. |
The
advertising and marketing blitz that preceded Christmas 2004 made it
clear in no uncertain terms that consumer 3G services have well and
truly arrived in the UK. |
Release
3.0 of DNA provides support for ISUP terminal and monitoring (including
China), ISUP signaling to initiate and receive calls, and ISUP based
trigger for traffic monitoring. |
PacketVideo
today announced that a new handset from Fujitsu Limited incorporates
PacketVideo's pvPlayer™ multimedia software for high-quality video
and audio playback. |
It was a suitably glamorous affair held in London and Motorola collected
not one, but two of the coveted awards, the only company to do so on
the evening at the mobile phone industry’s most prestigious award
show, the Mobile News Awards 2005. |
ASIA
: Signaling the arrival of a new era of consumer mobile video services,
Hong Kong CSL, (CSL), and RealNetworks announced availability of Asia's
first mobile media service enabling customers to watch On Demand video
while transparently switching between CSL's GPRS (2.5G), EDGE (2.75G)
and new UMTS (3G) data networks.
