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3G
Features January 2003 |
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1.5 Million i-Mode Wireless Users Research released by Jupiter estimates that subscribers to i-mode services in Europe will grow to 1.5 million by the end of 2003, up from a total 270,000 at the end of 2002. |
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Nokia 3G CDMA2000 1xEV-DV Trials Nokia confirms that evolution of its CDMA2000 chipset supporting IS-2000 Release C (also known as 1xEV-DV) is on schedule for field trials with CDMA operators. |
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New Wireless Fashion Phone Range Siemens has created a new collection of personal communication devices in radically different shapes and wearable designs. |
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New Analyzer Helps 3G Engineers Tektronix announced its new wireless communications analyzers which improve engineers' view and enable next-generation (2.5G and 3G) wireless design and manufacturing. |
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Grupo Iusacell of Mexico announced the commercial launch of the country's first CDMA2000 1X voice and high-speed data network |
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ICQ Comes To i-Mode Wireless Users ICQ will be available in February on i-mode phones in the Netherlands and thereafter in Germany. KPN Mobile provides i-Mode in Germany, Belguim and the Netherlands. |
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In the last five years QUALCOMM has seen significant advancements in development and adoption of CDMA technology, including the deployment of third-generation (3G) wireless services. |
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3G Enabled Palm OS4 Wireless Handset The SPH-i500, which is 3G-enabled (CDMA 2000 1X) PalmOS4.1-based wireless handset, features very compact clamshell form factor with the Graffiti area. |
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Wayfinder Systems, announced the launch of the new Wayfinder(TM) wireless navigation product at in Gothenburg, Sweden.. |
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TD-SCDMA Dual-Mode Wireless Phones Tang Ru'an, CEO of Datang Mobile Communications Co., Ltd., expresses that after granted the mobile communications license of 3G, the company will push dual-mode mobile phone chips compatible with GSM and TD-SCDMA in July or August 2003, and will complete the design of dual-mode mobile phones. |
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Billing Provider to Support 2.5 and 3G Mobile Services CSG Systems announced that Sunrise in Switzerland -- has selected CSG Kenan®/BP as its strategic billing platform to support its rollout of new 2.5G and 3G services. |
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SK IMT Selects Samsung, LG for W-CDMA 3G Equipment Bid SK IMT, a 3G mobile service unit of SK Telecom, announced its selection of Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics as the priority negotiating bidders.. |
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NetSpira Networks Delivers GPRS / 3G Profits The NetSpira solution can be very easily implemented into our current GSM and GPRS infrastructure. It enables new innovative services based on NetSpira features that are mainly content based billing. |
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Ajar 3G Applications Development Platform The platform delivers technology including Java, unified messaging service with (MMS and email client, WAP2.0, digital camera support, embedded and downloadable wireless games and multimedia content. |
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First Live 3G UMTS Call Luxembourg Luxembourg has now also taken off into the UMTS age : the first live call was transmitted to Luxembourg live via UMTS. |
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Technology Suite for 3G Terminals TTPCom announced its complete 3G technology set enabling manufacturers to develop stand alone 3G or dual mode 3G/GSM devices for launch in 2004. |
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Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. has become the top-ranking 3G company based on its eight-year efforts, 3500 staffs and total investment of RMB 3 billion. |
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As GPRS slowly starts to find a foothold in the minds of mobile consumers, one question seems to pop up again and again; Why bother with 3G at all - there is hardly any difference! |
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The VX4400 from Verizon Wireless, which lets you download entertainment, games and business applications |
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| World's First GSM / GPRS Wireless Radio in a Dime-Sized Package The radio system and packaging breakthrough saves handset designers significant space, cost and design-cycle time while providing a roadmap for quad-band and 3G handsets in the future. |
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| 3G Firm Smashes First Year Growth Targets UbiNetics marks first anniversary with plans for further Indian expansion. Just one year after opening, UbiNetics' Bangalore operation has emerged as a major R&D centre for the global 3G technology firm. |
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| First Wireless Powered Home Camera Service New World Mobility in Hong Kong' has launched Home Care Mobile Viewing Service, a pioneering mobilemedia service powered by Packet Video's pv3 Mobilemedia System. |
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| Power Amplifiers To Enhance 3G Mobile Phones Si Ge Semi- conductor announced that it has signed an agreement with IBM under which SiGe Semiconductor will be granted assignments and licenses to intellectual property associated with IBM. |
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| orld's First All Software Baseband for 3G W-CDMA Base Stations PA Consulting Group will be demonstrating its all-software baseband solution for wideband CDMA base stations at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes. |
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| Teleca integrates 3’s 3G Operations Support Systems Teleca announced that it has been selected by 3 to install, integrate and customise parts of its Operations Support Systems in Sweden. |
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Adult Material To Lead 3G Take Up Pornography is likely to be among the main uses that will drive demand in the early days of ultra-fast mobile phones, the chief executive of porn empire Private Media Group. |
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Hutchison 3G Use Cramer in Sweden Cramer Systems announced that Hutchison 3G will use Cramer's award-winning network inventory solution for 3's Swedish network. |
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T-Mobile and Lucent Technologies to Jointly Launch 3G UMTS Pilot Project Lucent Technologies and T-Mobile launched a joint pilot project to evaluate secure high-speed data services using third-generation (3G) Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) technology. |
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StarHub Goes Straight to 3G WCDMA StarHub stands by belief that Singapore would benefit most by allowing mobile operators here to make their own decisions about when and how to implement 3G services. |
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Austrian Wireless Games Liven Up handy games, is now supplying the austrian mobile entertainment market can access an extensive portfolio of exciting mobile phone games. |
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New 3G CDMA 2000 1xEV-DO Phone The cutting-edge IMT-2000 color mobile phone ‘HX2’, features a powerful built-in digital camera to support serial photographing and video filming. |
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3G FOMA Handset Offering Video Clip e-Mailing NTT DoCoMo announced that the N2051 3G handset, which offers extended stand-by time and the ability to e-mail video clips, will go on sale January 23, 2003. |
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Finnish Ice Hockey Goes Wireless Sonera and the Finnish ice hockey league (SM-liiga) have jointly created a mobile service by which hockey fans receive real-time information on their mobile phones. |
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TM Cellular Awaits Decision From MMC On 3G TM Cellular Sdn Bhd, which provides the TMTOUCH service, is awaiting decision from the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission. |
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Japan's KDDI to Establish Wireless Affiliate in Guangzhou, China The new company, to be established in January through KDDI's 100%owned subsidiary, KDDI Hong Kong, will be called KDDI Guangzhou Corporation (KDDI Guangzhou). |
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SR Telecom Adds 3G Technology To Portfolio SR Telecom acquisition that positions it to capitalize on identified opportunities for fixed applications in its core customer base. |
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Italian Prime Minister Receives 3G UMTS Number Italy's Prime Minster expressed great confidence in the prospects of 3G in Italy and warmly welcomed HWL's investments in H3G. |
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Video Camera Module for Wireless Phones and PDAs Atsana Semiconductor announced the availability of a 1.3 Megapixel Video Camera Accessory Module reference design for mobile phones and PDA manufacturers. |
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Hutchison, which is risking all on its first-mover advantage in 3G, had planned to steal the advantage in Australia from bigger rivals Telstra and Optus, which are still in the 3G pilot phase. |
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New Wireless Phone Agreement In China TTP Comms and TCL Mobile, China's largest local manufacturer of mobile phones, announce that they have signed a long term strategic agreement for the development of advanced mobile phones. |
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Sha-mail Wireless Handsets 8 Million J-PHONE announced that as of Jan 14, 2003, Sha-mail picture messaging enabled handsets exceeded the 8 million mark. |
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Singapore's First Public 3G Video Calls SingTel announced it has successfully completed the first 3G public video calls. SingTel conducted the person-to-person mobile video calls in Singapore |
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Dual Band 3G WCDMA Scanning Receiver for the U.S. Market Dynamic Telecommunications has announced the introduction of a dual band version of its WCDMA Scanning Receiver for use in the United States. |
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NTTDoCoMo To Further Enhance 3G Handsets Our target is to release a (3G) handset with a standby battery time of more than 300 hours in the fall of this year," Tachikawa said in a speech at Marcus Evans' 3G Mobile World Forum in Chiba. |
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NEC 3G Handset Bluetooth-Enabled By CSR CSR (Cambridge Silicon Radio ) announced that NEC's e606 3G videophone handsets are to be Bluetooth-enabled by CSR's BlueCore single chip Bluetooth IC. |
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Sanyo Camera Phone Receives Wireless Award The innovative Sanyo SCP-5300 camera phone uniquely offers convenient portrait flash and up to 16x zoom capability. A 2.1-inch TFT 65, 535-color main LCD display offers optimal image and game viewing, |
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3G will happen but not as originally evisaged' according to a the leading international management, systems and technology consultancy. |
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Sweden holds two-thirds of the world's 3G patents and has over 100 3G-related companies exhibiting at the event. A seminar on the technology is being held during the show and will be lead by industry experts from Ericsson, Hi3Gl, and the Sonera Corp. |
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First Car with Integrated 3G-UMTS Services In a specially fitted Mercedes-Benz S-Class a comprehensive portfolio of multimedia services has become possible through the use of the broadband 3G-UMTS mobile phone. |
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New Motorola Wireless Phone Plus 2 Way Radio Motorola's i95cl brings size, value and performance in liquid crystal display to a new level. Stylish and versatile the vibrant color display can be changed in a snap with fun colorful wallpapers. |
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Hutchison Telecom and Orange Win Superbrands Awards Hutchison Telecom and Orange have successfully won the awards by fulfilling the judging criteria of the award programme, which include market dominance, longevity, goodwill, customer loyalty and overall market acceptance. |
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New Brand for Wireless Mobile Computing Intel has unveiled a new brand for wireless mobile computing. The new name Centrino, and its new logo, marks the first time Intel has branded a combination of technologies under one name. |
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TCC Orders 3G UMTS Infrastructure for Taiwan Taiwan Cellular (TCC) has set up Siemens mobile to supply and set up its UMTS network. Siemens mobile has been the sole GSM supplier for TCC for seven years. |
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Sri Lanka's telecoms regulator, the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka has opened a tender for a company to build a test 3G network in the country. |
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GSM Fastest Growing Wireless Technology GSM has become the fastest growing wireless technology in the Americas, registering a 37% year-over-year growth through September 2002 according to the EMC World Cellular Database.
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i-mode Wireless Content Service in Germany Bandai S.A. announce the launch of "Charappa", our first content service for the European mobile phone market will be available through E-Plus |
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World's First TDMA Wireless Handsets With Full Colour Handsets With features such as Java capability, custom color wallpapers, MIDI ring tunes and two-way text messaging, the color-screen Nokia 3560 and 3520 phones offer many of today's most-wanted features
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3G / UMTS Field Trial in the United Arab Emirates Alcatel announced today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Etisalat, the United Arab Emirates fixed and mobile operator, for the supply of a 3G/UMTS field trial network in Abu Dhabi. |
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Swedish 3G Network Company Files Complaint The company building a third-generation telecom network for three Swedish operators has asked the country's justice ombudsman to investigate the community of Trelleborg's decision to deny it permits for the network. |
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Powered with 3G technology, sleek looks and enough features to make anyone drool, the Motorola A835 is here to take you to the next dimension in mobile fun. |
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New CDMA 2000 1x Wireless Phone Distinctively styled and attractively appointed, the feature-rich CDM-9600 is CDMA2000 1X-capable and equipped with GPS location positioning technology (system dependent). |
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Global 3G Agreement for New Video Gateway System Ericsson and Hutchison Whampoa Limited have signed a global agreement for Ericsson's new Video Gateway System. |
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Reverse SMS Billing to Interactive Wireless Content Bango is now enabling users of Orange mobile phones to pay for WAP content and services directly to their bill, using reverse SMS. |
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Bandai Announce Availability Of New 3G Wireless Games Bandai America introduce a new line of wireless games to the PCS Vision suite of services. |
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First Wireless Hands-Free Mobile Phone Earpiece The Bluetooth-compatible wireless mobile phone earpiece called the Personal Sound System (PSS).The product is being demonstrated at CES. |
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Smartphones Will Dominate Wireless Handset Market A migration trend is emerging among wireless users toward feature rich devices that incorporate color screens and advanced data and messaging applications. |
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Sony Pictures Introduce Full-Color Wireless Entertainment Sony Pictures and Sprint announce an agreement in which Sony will develop and distribute content for PCS Vision. PCS VisionSM customers can now download content based on a number of pictures. |
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3G technology company UbiNetics has signed a licensing agreement with National Semiconductor Corporation to jointly develop next-generation wireless chipsets for the handset market. |
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Motorola Confirm 2003 3G handsets Motorola promises mobile consumers will have a great time as latest gaming capabilities are integrated into new handsets such as the Motorola T725 and Motorola A835 |
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Turnkey 3G Video To Mobile Phones BT Broadcast Services and Oplayo will provide a revolutionary solution for mobile phone operators to offer video streaming on existing GPRS and 3G networks |
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Samsung Electronics of Korea is ready to introduce its first camcorder phone capable of recording and storing up to 20 minutes of multimedia clips. |
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Micronetics announced that its Test Solutions Group has entered into an OEM agreement with Yokogawa Corporation of America to sell Yokogawa's wideband demodulator and vector signal generator test equipment. |
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World's First CDMA2000 1xEV-DO PC5230 Wireless PC Card AirPrime , a subsidiary of Korea Telecom, announced that the mass production release of the world's first CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Wireless PC Card with antenna diversity has commenced. |
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Taiwanese Operator Selects Ericsson 3G The 3G agreement with
Far EasTone comprises a complete 3G system including WCDMA radio access
network, core network and a wide portfolio of comprehensive professional
services for Yuan-Ze |
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Price War Looming For Fixed and Wireless Operators A price war in the Western European voice services market could cost fixed and mobile operators as much as EUR15 billion in lost revenues over the next five years warns Analysys, the global advisers on telecoms and new media.In its new report |
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Hutchison 3G UK and Dixon Stores Group announced a retail agreement under which The Link will sell Hutchison 3G UK's third-generation mobile multimedia and communications products and services to be marketed under the 3 brand. |
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Vodafone Takes Nearly 400,000 Wireless LIVE Users In the first two months of Vodafone live!, we have achieved over 380,000 customers across eight markets and are on track to achieve our target of a million sales to customers by the end of March |
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Demo Of 3GPP R5 All-IP Wireless Network In China TELOS Technology, and PUTIAN Institute of Technology, the R&D arm of CHINA PUTIAN announced that the two companies demonstrated a 3G SGSN (Serving GPRS Support Node) using 3GPP Release 5 technology. |
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2 New GPRS Wireless Phones From Phillips The fisio 825 and 625 models were developed and designed by Cellon within the scope of the company’s partnership with Philips’ Business Unit Wireless |
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Google Comes To 3G Enabled Handsets Google and Sprint announced the first US-based wireless image search. The new service enables customers to search and view Google's images and web pages. |
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Digital Cameras to Be Embedded in Curitel Wireless Handsets OmniVision announced it is supplying its OV7635FB VGA CameraChipTM modules in high volumes to privately held Pantech & Curitel to be embedded in their PD-K600 and PD-6000 mobile phone handsets. |
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New CDMA 1x wireless handset for Thailand Hutch' and SANYO Japan, a Japan-based leading CDMA handset manufacturer, jointly announced today the launch of the first CDMA 1X handset in Thailand equipped with powerful high-speed and multimedia capabilities |
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3G Video Compatability Achieved In Japan 3G phone users in Japan can now send videos to each other, across networks, as the result of a recent agreement between J-Phone and NTT DoCoMo who use the same W-CDMA specifications. |
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Ericsson Chosen As 3G Supplier toTDC Mobil of Denmark Ericsson has been selected by Danish operator TDC Mobil as the primary supplier for a WCDMA 3G network in Denmark. TDC Mobil is the first operator in Denmark to announce their choice of vendor for 3G |
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New Samsung Palm Powered 3G Enabled Handset In US Wireless industry innovators Sprint and Samsung announced nationwide availability of the PCS Phone by Samsung SPH-i330. This fully integrated Vision Capable Device combines a PCS Full Color screen, |
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New 3G UMTS Radio Measurement Platform Anite announced availability of the U-RAMS UMTS radio measurement platform, an extension of the company's RAMS solution that is tailored to meet the RF testing requirements of 3G mobile phones and wireless devices. |
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New Smartphone Released in Taiwan Compal Communications of Taiwan released their first smartphone ( MS 2002 OS ) with the TI OMAP710 processor. |
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CDMA2000 1X Wireless Network for PT Telecom In Indonesia Samsung officials have announced the details of a CDMA2000 1X hardware supply agreement concluded with PT Telkom, a state-run telecommunications operator in Indonesia. |
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The NEC V-N701 3G Mobile is the first VGS 3G Mobile Phone to be made available by J-Phone in Japan. An explanation of the VGS service and the specification of the new 3G mobile follow. |
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The Sanyo V-SA701 shown on the left will be the second VGS 3G Mobile Phone to be made available by J-Phone in Japan. An explanation of the VGS service and the specification of the new 3G mobile follow. |
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Taiwan Cellular Takes WCDMA 3G Network Nokia and Taiwan Cellular signed an agreement for Nokia to supply its 3G network in Taiwan. This represents another major milestone in Nokia's goal to expand its share of the WCDMA market to 35%. |
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The UK press has reported that Hutchison 3G will not be launching 3G in the UK until March 2003. If this is correct, 3G.co.uk feels this is another kick in the teeth for 3G in Europe
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NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that the company will begin marketing a new i-shot™ compatible handset, the mova F504iS with dual cameras |
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Hutchison 3G Hit The Streets Of London With TVs Hutchison 3G UK began the first phase of its marketing campaign to build consumer awareness of its forthcoming 3G mobile multimedia services |
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Delta Telecom Launches 3G Mobile Network In Russia Delta Telecom, a cellular operator in the northwest region of Russia, announced the commercial launch of an advanced third-generation (3G) CDMA2000 1X network |
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| 3G W-CDMA In Four Major U.S. Markets NTT DoCoMo and AT&T Wireless announced the four major U.S. markets in which AT&T Wireless commits to first deploy and launch W-CDMA. |
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