| Orange to Trial 3G UMTS TDD in France |
| 31st
March , 2005 ( see
below for all today's 3G news ) |
|
Inset is Chris Gilbert, CEO, IPWireless who is quoted below. UMTS frequency allocation traditionally comprises a paired band (FDD) and an unpaired band (TDD). Like nearly all UMTS operators, Orange has been allocated, depending on the country, a number of FDD frequencies and a block of TDD frequencies. To date, most UMTS deployments have focused on WCDMA utilizing the paired frequency bands. Orange's large-scale WCDMA deployment is ideally suited to provide efficient delivery of a variety of services including voice, SMS, supplementary services, videophone, and packet data transmission at data rates of 64/128Kbps and 64/384Kbps, higher with the planned FDD band evolution to HSDPA. TD-CDMA technology tests and market research from the trials with IPWireless will enable Orange to decide when and how to use its unpaired TDD frequency allocations. The technical aspects of the trials on the French corporate market in Lille business area will enable Orange to assess the real time performance of TD-CDMA, and notably the coverage area, the capacity, the number of simultaneous users per carrier, and the coexistence of different networks (TDD and FDD). The trial will enable Orange to test enterprise customers' response to very-high data rate services for complex enterprise applications, and gauge the immediate and near-term demand for such services. The results of the TD- CDMA trial, in tandem with the WCDMA commercial launch, will help Orange determine the various benefits and appropriate positioning for wireless technologies including GPRS, WLAN, WCDMA and TD-CDMA. "We are pleased to partner with Orange to bring the first UMTS TDD deployment to France," said Chris Gilbert, chief executive officer, IPWireless. "Based on the positive reactions to our commercial deployments worldwide, we are confident that enterprise users in Lille will find tremendous value in Orange's new services." |
| 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. |
Europe
: 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.
