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Features December 2002 |
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New NEC i-Mode Wireless Handset Before Christmas KPN Mobile will add to its range a third i-mode handset: the NEC n22i. The company expects the new handset to sustain the sharp rise in sales. |
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Wang Jianzhou, president of China Unicom ( inset ) expressed at the CDMA Global Carriers Summit that China Unicom is going to trial the Qualcomm-based 3G CDMA 2000. |
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UK Wireless Operators Still Dispute Terms on Sending Photos The major operators in the UK -- Orange, Vodafone, O2 and T-Mobile -- have not yet agreed to terms for sending photo messages between their networks. |
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Expansion of 3G Networks in Brazil QUALCOMM congratulates Telesp Celular and Telefonica Celular, two of the largest Brazilian mobile operators with a combined total of 13.5 million subscribers, on their 3G CDMA2000 1X network expansions |
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Accelerating 3G Development in Taiwan 3G technology company, UbiNetics, has licensed its WCDMA simulator and algorithm development tools to Taiwan's leading technology research |
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| How Do You Market 3G Mobile Services So how do you go about getting new customers to fork out a substantial amount of money for new technology? 3 is going with the snazzy "it works great" Flash demo approach, combined with a lot of somewhat vague information. |
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| Never Mind 3G Look Forward To 4G Technology is always coming before market. China starts working with the next generation communications technology or 4G, although the 3G is far from reaching. |
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| ORGA Supplies 3G Test Equipment Motorola, one of the market leaders in the wireless handset industry will use ORGA's new IT3 Test Platform for the development and testing of its GSM and 3G mobile handsets. |
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| 3G Player Secures $27 Million Funding IPWireless announced it had secured over $27 million in additional funding from all of its major existing investors as well as an external strategic investor. |
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| No Appeal - 3G UMTS License Terms Vodafone Sweden will not be appealing against the decision of the Swedish National PTS about leaving the terms and conditions applying to its UMTS license unchanged. |
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| New 260K TFT-LCD For 3G Devices Samsung announced the development of a new TFT LCD Driver IC. The new device features an industry first 260K real color depth and a one-chip design for small form factor and quality color shade |
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3, the Italian mobile video company of the Hutchison Whampoa Group, meets car and motorbike fans at the 27th MOTOR SHOW, the Auto and Motorbike International Exhibition of Bologna. |
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3, the first mobile video company of the Italian market, today inaugurated in Milan its first store, in Piazzale Cordusio corner Via Broletto |
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According to the agreement, Legend will develop, manufacture and roll out Chinese version handheld devices which adopt Palm OS platform. |
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Uphill Battle for 3G Mobile Service SK Telecom, the nation's largest mobile carrier, is bracing for an uphill battle in its much-trumpeted debut of a next-generation mobile phone. |
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Apple's QuickTime application is in pole position to take advantage of the 3G mobile phone market. |
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Chipset Supporting 3G WCDMA Selected by LG Electronics QUALCOMM and LG Electronic announced the selection of the QUALCOMM MSM6200(TM) Mobile Station Modem (MSM(TM)) chipset and system software for LG's dual-mode third-generation (3G) handsets. |
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Asia’s Color Wireless Handset Market LG is increasing its stature in the Asian mobile handset market with products that deliver the entire core cutting-edge functionalities including color screen, camera, and streaming video capabilities. |
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DoCoMo Systems based in Tokyo Japan has launched a 3G FOMA driven remote monitoring system. The system is likely to be branded mWatch and allows users to view and control video cameras from their 3G enabled mobile phones. |
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mmO2 Get 41 Wireless Applications Aspiro has signed an agreement with the British based mobile operator mmO2 to supply 41mobile applications to all markets served by O2, including more than 18 million subscribers. |
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NTT DoCoMo will introduce three new 3G mobile phones featuring continuous dynamic stand-by of approximately 170-180 hours or 230-250 hours of static stand-by time, approximately 3.3 times longer than the original FOMA models. |
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TV Quality Video Over GPRS Wireless TV quality streamed video will be available in early 2003 to the new generation of video-enabled mobiles and PDAs over existing GPRS (2.5G) networks |
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Colour Adult Wireless Content On PDAs Private Media Group Inc. a worldwide leader in premium-quality adult entertainment products, services and Internet content, is pleased to announce the upcoming worldwide release of its adult content chip for Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). |
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Siemens Lands 3G UMTS Network Order Siemens mobile will be the sole provider for the 3rd generation (3G) mobile network in Luxembourg. |
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Hutchison 3G UK unveiled details of its forthcoming products and services to be marketed under the 3 brand, including details of special discounts and an outline of pricing. |
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ymbian Ltd announces that its licensee Fujitsu has completed development of a Symbian OS smartphone for NTT DoCoMo's FOMA 3G network. Fujitsu will begin volume shipments to NTT DoCoMo shortly. |
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Superscape's Swerve technology is highly regarded in the wireless sector as a robust, flexible and generic solution capable of delivering a wide range of applications to 2.5 and 3G handsets. |
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Sonim's Instant Communications Platform allows the deployment of presence-enabled, instant voice messaging services, such as Push-To-Talk, over wireless data networks. |
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MMS Toolkit For Camera Wireless Phone Openwave Systems announced that its client software is featured in the new Sharp GX10, Sharp's first multimedia handset for the European market. |
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The Carphone Warehouse, Europe's leading mobile communications retailer has signed a commercial contract with new telecoms services provider Hutchison 3G |
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Openwave Helps To Drives the CDMA Wireless Industry Don Listwin, president and CEO of Openwave Systems, delivered a keynote address to attendees of the 2002 CDMA Americas Congress. |
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New 3G Partnership in OEM’ Building 3G Systems HSS announced that’s it has entered into a partnership with Creative Electronic Systems |
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Letting customers walk out of a shop with a preconfigured 2.5G mobile phone in their hands where GPRS and WAP is already working, |
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3G Base Station and Antenna Alliance LGC Wireless and KEVAB – The Base Station Company, a 3G base station developer, announce their intent to form a strategic alliance and to conduct joint marketing and test activities |
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Lets start with the fundamental ‘laws of physics’ type of argument. The data rates used in 3G are much greater than for 2G (GSM) and therefore more sophisticated modulation schemes are employed to achieve this greater throughput. |
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First 3G Call Over Live WCDMA/UMTS Network in Americas Ericsson and AT&T Wireless completed the first WCDMA / UMTS call in a live network environment in the Americas. With initial packet data speeds up to 384 kbps |
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China's Wireless Operators Getting Ready for 3G China's mobile market is expected to continue to bring in sophisticated technology from overseas network operators, while at the same time, give play to market forces. |
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Wireless Games Revenue to Grow Ten-Fold Downloadable games will replace ringtones as the service that drives Western Europe's growth in mobile content and entertainment service revenue over the next three years |
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J-Phone Have 3G Ready For Xmas J-PHONE announced the launch of Vodafone Global Standard on December 20 to offer customers in Japan unprecedented access to 3GPP mobile services at home and abroad. |
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Wireless Video Services in India Thin Multimedia announced that Reliance Infocomm licensed it's complete mobile video streaming solution to provide video services. |
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135 Million CDMA Wireless Users The CDMA Development Group (CDG) reported that there were nearly 135 million CDMA subscribers and 24 million CDMA2000 users worldwide at the end of the third quarter of 2002. |
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Brazillian Operator's 3G CDMA2000 1XEV-DO Launch Vesper, a Brazilian operator providing services to 17 states in the Southeastern and Northern regions of the country, including Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, is the first Latin American operator to deploy a 3G CDMA2000 1xEV-DO network. |
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Anite announced the availability of 200 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) conformance test cases. The test cases enable the testing and approval of mobile phones and wireless terminals for use on next-generation cellular networks. |
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EuroTel Bratislava announced that the second installment of the UMTS license fee in the amount of Sk 999 million was paid in full to the Telecommunications Office of the Slovak Republic |
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Wi-Fi links with 3G UMTS Networks Nortel Networks announced the ability to provide integrated solutions for that will seamlessly link existing and future Wireless Wide Area Networks (WWANs) with fast-emerging wireless 'hot spots,' also known as Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). |
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Live Demonstrations Over 3G Network Airvana Inc and Winphoria Networks Inc will demonstrate push-to-talk applications over a live CDMA2000 1xEV-DO network and interoperability with 1xRTT networks |
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Telstra Launches 3G Mobile Service Telstra launched Australia’s first fully operational 3G mobile service for business customers, which is faster, more powerful and feature rich than anything they would have experienced before |
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| 3G Wireless Instant Photography The convergence of digital cameras and 3G cell phones inspired the creation of a new product that combines the bests of digital and instant photography. |
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Hutchison Shows Off 3G UMTS In Europe The first person-to-person video call via 3 handsets over the UMTS commercial network of 3 was conducted successfully between Rome and Milan, as well as Rome and London |
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New Hutch CDMA Wireless Venture Hutchison CAT Wireless MultiMedia Ltd., a joint venture between The Communications Authority of Thailand and Hutchison Wireless Multimedia Holding Ltd., is launching "Hutch" as a marketing service brand for its CDMA 1X technology mobile phone service. |
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3G Solution For Infrastructure Challenges picoChip Designs announced the details of its technology. The company has developed a complete baseband platform for 3G infrastructure that solves three critical problems confronting manufacturers |
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3G WCDMA Call Handover GSM Network WCDMA technology proves to be the first wideband 3G technology ready to be launched commercially on IMT-2000 frequencies and the only 3G technology interworking with 2G world |
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Hutchison 3G In Danger of Downgrade Hutchison Whampoa's growing debt and the cash flow drag from its third-generation mobile telecom business (3G) put it in danger of a ratings downgrade next year, UBS Warburg has warned. |
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MMS Wireless Revenues = $8.3bn Juniper Research interviewed over 40 industry leaders and concluded that MMS has the potential to generate revenues in excess of $8.3bn by 2004 |
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MMS Wireless Confusion Highlighted 3G LAB published results of usability tests which showed that consumer test subjects were unsure what the term MMS meant and were so confused by the menu systems of MMS-enabled phones |
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Buongiorn Mobile Services Platform for Hutchison 3G The MSP is a wireless infotainment platform driven by an underlying, alerting engine and will be a key component of 3's services, including email, MMS, picture messaging and person to person video. |
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Value Pricing for 3G Network Services Am-Beo announced that its president and CEO, John Brady, will present "Value Pricing for Network Services," at the Next Generation Billing Systems conference |
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Mitsubishi Trium Release New GPRS Wireless Phone Express yourself in words and pictures with the M320, a great-looking phone with a must-have big colour screen. |
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Eurotel Puts Faith in Oplayo Wireless Video-Streaming Technology Oplayo, who brought the world's first video streaming to existing GPRS networks, today signed its first mobile phone operator deal with Eurotel Praha.
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Orange Takes Kiss Me Wireless Application 104.com has announced that activities outside Japan have been enhanced through being selected as a supplier of a mobile applications platform to Orange group companies |
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3G / UMTS Wireless Facility Opens in Germany Alcatel officially inaugurated its 3G Reality Centre in Stuttgart, Germany today. This facility, which has been operational since June of this year, is the first end-to-end, fully open 3G/UMTS mobile facility in Germany |
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