3G Features October 2003
Orange will launch 3G mobile phone services in France and the UK in Q3-2004, closely followed by Belgium and Switzerland.
First pre-commercial UMTS service to be publicly launched by a wireless operator in Spain, along with the company's plans for its 3G project
Actix announced that Vodafone Ireland has selected Actix' UMTS 3G solution primarily because of its vendor independent A-platform open architecture.
Nokia said on Tuesday that mobile telecoms operators had started to increase investments in high-speed networks after the summer holidays
Renesas Technology Corp. announced that it has cooperated with Mobile Communication Research in the next-generation mobile phone technology
The joint venture will develop the technology for a new IC chip, tentatively named 'mobile FeliCa IC', that will integrate mobile phones with the FeliCa technology.
KDDI announced the nationwide launch of CDMA 1X WIN, a new 3G service that enables high speed data communications of up to 2.4Mbps.
Wireless LAN (WLAN) solution provider IPone that they have conducted Wireless LAN roaming with commercial cellular networks for 2.5G and 3G.
Fastlink to launch the first live demonstration of 3G technology in Jordan using Motorola infrastructure mounted on a “3G trailer” – a semi-truck.
Hutchison Telecoms today announced the latest 3 video mobile - the Motorola A835 - and a special offer to allow the first customers to get a saving of up to $361 by pre-ordering now.
NTT DoCoMo and Fujitsu Limited signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly showcase third-generation (3G) FOMA mobile communication services in France.
Motorola and PacketVideo Corporation announced that PacketVideo's custom-built "mobile media" software will help power the new Motorola A920 handset
ParthusCeva, Inc. announced that VIA Telecom, Inc. has licensed its TeakLite DSP Core for its new product lines targeting the CDMA/CDMA2000 market.
The third-generation (3G), high-speed data network, marketed under the name CDMA 1X WIN, will be available to customers beginning November 28, 2003.
SanDisk Corporation announced a worldwide agreement with 3 to supply SanDisk-branded SD cards for select video mobile phones offered by 3.
QUALCOMM Incorporated announced a multitude of innovative 3G CDMA wireless products and solutions for the enterprise at CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2003
Sendo announced its new highly featured multimedia smartphone, the Sendo X. The Sendo X sets itself apart from other multimedia smartphones with a number of innovations
LG Electronics Inc., South Korea's second-largest electronics maker, aims to become the world's No. 3 mobile-phone maker within three years by taking market share from competitors
To maximise the 3G business case, Jean-Pierre Bienaimé ( inset ) , chairman of the UMTS Forum, is appealing to regulators and governments to take a pragmatic look at their licensing arrangements.
This agreement enables the operator to build a 3G network to launch new mobile services.
4G? Not in this decade. “I would recommend that the newspaper community forget about 4G,” Dr Keiji Tachikawa, president and CEO of NTT DoCoMo
LG Electronics (LGE), a ‘Dark Horse’ in the European 3G market, will launch two new tri-band (GSM/GPRS/WCDMA) mobile handsets
The instructional courses cover all operating modes of CDMA, including CDMA2000 1X and WCDMA (UMTS), and are designed to help wireless professionals gain a better understanding of CDMA
Beamer TVTM Videophone, gives consumers another convenient, affordable way to see family and friends by phone.
Providing SDH and PDH in a single platform, Harris designed TRuepoint to meet current and future needs of all network operators
This system solution consists of an advanced background compatible 3G SIM/USIM card with a revolutionary design
Vodafone K.K. announced it will offer the V601N by NEC, Japan’s first handset with an embedded analog TV tuner, after early December.
KDDI has recently started taking delivery of a camera phone that could take pictures better than some digital cameras.
CDMA2000 is expanding across all regions. There are 70 commercial networks and 20 more will be deployed within the next six months in Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe and the Americas
Orange began a week-long demonstration of services over third generation networks at the ITU Telecom World 2003 show in Geneva, Switzerland.
Video is set to turn the mobile phone into the ‘fourth screen’ after television, cinema and the PC.
Crown Castle announced the completion of its negotiations in the UK with BT to eliminate $48 million of site acquisition obligations and with Hutchison 3G UK Limited ("3") to amend the minimum site commitment under the agreements with 3.
The Motorola A835 offers a high quality zoom camera and speakerphone that makes video calling - video mobile technology's most unique feature
KDDI and Okinawa Cellular is pleased to announce the launch of INFOBAR, the first release in the "au design project" series, a collaboration between designers
WiMax wireless broadband technology was recognized as the "Most Promising Technology of the Year," as part of CNET Networks
The prime feature of the ubiquitous society is being able to access networks anywhere, anytime with cellular telephones
GSM is the technology selected by 43% of all new digital wireless customers in the Americas
Esat BT has announced a deal worth over €100m with '3' to build and operate its 3G radio access network, in Ireland.
The feature-rich e616 offers person-to-person video, audio and video streaming, video recording and playback
NTT DoCoMo to enter into a Purchase Agreement with Far EasTone Telecommunications Co., Ltd., Taiwan's third largest mobile operator.
NEC Corporation (NEC) will demonstrate its stylish range of i-mode mobile terminals at Telecom World 2003.
U.S. Cellular has selected Nortel Networks to supply CDMA2000 1X core, radio and wireless access technology
It provides superior user experiences with gaming and other advanced multimedia applications for 2.5G and 3G phones.
O2 launched a new mobile video service in the UK that enables customers to download or stream video content over its existing mobile data network.
New Flash memory architecture provides additional enhanced performance feature sets, such as, a flexible 4Mb multi-partitioned architecture, clock suspend, and fast programming...
Megapixel CCD mobile camera capable of photographing 1 million effective pixels Numerous functions that fully utilize the System LCD large-size 2.2-inch QVGA (320 x 240 pixel) display
SK Telecom has selected DNA as the video telephony reference platform for its 3G WCDMA network
Exclusive FA Premier League football rights to stream goals, highlights and archive content to 3G mobiles
TeliaSonera's Finnish customers can start using the EDGE-technology enabling faster mobile data services.
Nine leading independent mobile operators announced the formation of a new mobile alliance...
Signal generation and signal analysis that meet the specific requirements for GSM/EDGE and WCDMA/UMTS mobile phone testing
With units available for less than $100, global positioning system (GPS) receivers are now affordable to the masses...
Ericsson, Huawei, NEC, Nortel Networks and Siemens - the parties co-operating in the CPRI (Common Public Radio Interface) industry initiative
The Software Defined Radio (SDR) Forum announced that it is conducting research to gain crucial insight into wireless operator requirements
Lucent Technologies announced that it has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract with KPN Mobile to support the operator's 3G UMTS network.
This operation will enhance Agere's current capabilities in delivering integrated chip set and software solutions for dual-mode 3G mobile phones
The Asia-Pacific region has bucked the global trend of declining telecom growth for the last several years. The overall pace of mobile user ...
Verizon Wireless and Nortel Networks announced the commercial launch of a third generation (3G) wireless data network
TRAXER, a pocket size device for personal security based on Fastrax GPS technology combined with a dual-band GSM/GPRS modem,
Nokia announced the radically shaped Nokia 7600 phone combining 3G capability with the latest mobile imaging features in a futuristic exterior.
Aimed at broadening mobile professional's knowledge of 3G testing issues, this opportunity to participate in a free one-day technology seminar examining 3G standards
The UMTS Forum urged China's national administrations to give clear messages to the mobile industry by progressing its 3G licensing process.
The Panasonic G60, the LG VX6000 and the Motorola E365 are the latest multimedia handsets that form part of the magic4 enabled portfolio of products
LG has created a buzz in the mobile phone industry after developing a device that especially caters ...
3G Features October 2003
The research, commissioned by Mobeon, the world's leading OEM supplier of telecom messaging software, highlights trends and makes predictions about voicemail, wireless email, MMS, 3G and video mail markets.
Lucent Technologies introduced a new compact, cost-effective base station to enhance its market-leading portfolio of third-generation (3G) CDMA2000 base stations.
Lucent Technologies announced that it has signed an agreement with the Andalusian Regional Government to deploy a third-generation (3G)...
Industry body The UMTS Forum has launched a new White Paper that charts the evolutionary options to 3G
The Xda II from O2 - giving customers access to colour images, video, music, games, information, phone and corporate internet
LineFusion announced the launch of the latest Java Mobile IM on Sony Ericsson Z600 and T610 mobile phones.
The newly introduced video call completion and videomail functionality of LogicaCMG's uOne™ will provide subscribers with functions to record, deposit, retrieve and play video calls.
The new feature enables over-the-air (OTA) analysis measurements for Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA) via the most flexible toolbox on the market.
Hutchison 3G UK, trading as 3, has selected Livingston to supply its test equipment management solutions during the preparation, rollout and operation of the UK's first 3G service.
Catapult Communications announced a new m5000 hardware platform that addresses the telecom industry's need for higher load test performance.
NANO Media announced it will provide content services for 3G phones in Japan and estimates that the retail 3G mobile phone market
Very Often 802.11 is seen as a competitor of 3G data services, however more and more Mobile Network Operators are embracing public 802.11 service
3 Sweden is accelerating the introduction of WCDMA 3G service in central Sweden by switching on service in several cities over the next few weeks.
Vodafone announced that after early December it will offer the V601SH by Sharp with a embedded 2 Megapixel CCD Mobile Camera
The D505iS will become the first handset in the series to go on sale on October 23. The model features a Super CCD Honeycom® camera with an effective resolution of one mega pixels
Murata Electronics announced its new miniaturized 2GHz Band Isolator for the digital mobile phone market.
T-Mobile and Trigenix, the mobile interface company, today achieved an industry first by offering consumers the ability to personalise their mobile phones
With the introduction of the Motorola V300 across Europe (UK, Germany, The Netherlands, Austria and Hungary), Motorola and T-Mobile are addressing the needs of thousands of young people
NEC Corporation (NEC) announced that it will start delivery of the next 3G (W-CDMA) handsets to 3G operation companies of Hutchison Whampoa branded “3”.
Huawei Technologies, announced that the company, partnering with Telekom Malaysia, the pioneer 3G operator of Malaysia, has made a success in the soft launch of its pre-commercial WCDMA
A cutting-edge package of multimedia functions including one-hour video recording and playing, photo editing and mailing, MMS function.
Dr Irwin Jacobs of Qualcomm, the US-based CDMA chipset maker, has played down any possible negative impact that WiFi may have on 3G data revenue.
As CDMA2000 1xEV-DV gains interest around the world, Samsung is demonstrating the world's first 1xEV-DV system products
Applications for this product combination include metro routers, multi-service switches, enterprise backbones, storage area networks, and 3G wireless gateways.
Games are universally attractive and with an ever-increasing number of subscribers owning, and always carrying, a colour handset with data capabilities...
Frank Dunn, president and chief executive officer of Nortel Networks told telecom industry leaders that global communications has reached an important inflection point
Achieved a 216 kbps (kilo bits per second) download using its recently announced EDGE module. The download, which took place on Ericsson’s EDGE infrastructure
Continuing delays in the launch of 3G services by mobile operators across Western Europe will result in a much wider window of opportunity for GPRS technology
Mobile operators are forecasting major growth in revenues from high accuracy location-based services to almost $12bn by 2005
Hungarian operator Pannon GSM and Nokia have demonstrated the first public operator WCDMA 3G call in Hungary.
Marketed globally under the 3 brand, H3G has contributed CHF 500,000 (approx. HK$3 million) to sponsor the Forum
It forms the core of the most comprehensive hardware and software reference design platform for 3G equipment manufacturers.
Radioplan has solved the common problem of inaccurate and unreliable planning data in the third-generation (3G) planning and optimization processes.
Lucent Technologies announced that it is working with AT&T Wireless to deploy a third-generation (3G) W-CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) trial network in the greater Miami area
This mobile phone for the next generation of mobile communication was used to provide a live demonstration of services
System SEVEN offers a secure service that is well-suited for mobile operators entering enterprise solution market," said Katsuhiro Nakagawa, Vice President of NEC
Mobile entertainment services in Europe are not yet on the brink of mass market consumer adoption.
The protocol conformance test cases were validated by the Validation Competence Center of CETECOM,
While next generation cellular technologies such as WCDMA and CDMA2000 1X EV-DO are a part of the large -- and slowing -- handset market,
NEC Corporation (NEC) announced that it would start marketing Video Communication Solutions for emerging Mobile markets in Europe
Continuous Computing announced today that it has begun shipping Trillium(R) network protocol software solutions complying with 3GPP
New Voq-branded professional phones will be based on Microsoft Windows Mobile software for Smartphones
SEVEN announced that KDDI, the second largest mobile operator in Japan based in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo will offer Keitai Office...
Picsel Technologies further strengthened its position as the leading multimedia content enabling platform...
StarHub has awarded Nokia a contract to supply WCDMA 3G network equipment with an estimated value of 100 million euros
Vodafone K.K. announced it will offer a new Sha-mail picture messaging handsets for sale after early November, the V301D by Mitsubishi Electric.
The new DMFC will provide a greater freedom for users of those handheld equipments to easily recharge the batteries in a mobile environment
Oplayo’s leading video streaming technology can today be used to view short films from The World’s Smallest Film Festival
Four factors are driving UMTS adoption : regulatory mandates, greater network capacity, reduced capital and operating costs, and availability of well-functioning, numerous, and low-priced handset models."
The MMS implementation reference document defines GSM operator recommendations for interoperability between different network core elements and key interfaces
By enabling the WOW technology on their handsets, mobile phone OEMs can now deliver a spacious, natural and immersive 3D audio listening experience.
REMEC announced that it has been selected to build initial quantities of an integrated Wideband Code Division Multiple Access..
NTT DoCoMo announced that the number of subscribers to the 3G FOMA service nationwide passed the 1 million mark
JA108 multimedia application processor further increases the performance of streaming video...
Future development of the MTS network looks to incorporate 2.5G GPRS and subsequent 3G services
Video mobile network 3 today unveiled a new £15 a month price plan that brings video mobile services ...
3G CDMA2000 subscribers generate significantly higher revenue - up to 50 percent more - than 2G subscribers.
elata and Synergenix, a leading developer of 2D and 3D gaming technology, have partnered with Terraplay Systems to provide...
With increased demand of mobile services worldwide, and a new generation of color services riding the GPRS wave
Combined with a CDMA, GPRS or a 3G subscription, a true seamless roaming experience is achieved for the corporate users -- all billed on one subscription.
Symmetricom is proud to be supplying Samsung with state-of-the-art 3G WCDMA base station synchronization modules to support growth ...
J-PHONE announced it will offer a new Sha-mail picture messaging handset, the V301T by Toshiba, for sale after mid-October.
Rohde & Schwarz has developed the compact measurement system UMTS PN scanner for UMTS network ..
This agreement gives NTT DoCoMo access to Symbian OS source code and the right to deliver extended versions of this code to phone manufacturers that are Symbian OS licensees.
New BenQ Smartphone Will Include a Texas Instruments OMAP™ Processor and GSM/GPRS Wireless Technology
Hantro’s 4350 hardware video codec enables simultaneous encode and decode CIF resolution video at up to 30 frames per second on Motorola’s i.MX21 applications processor.
Actix announced that the majority of the wireless operators across Europe to have launched pre-commercial or commercial UMTS 3G Networks...