3G Features May 2004
UbiNetics, a world leader in 3G Terminal and Test & Measurement technology, has announced the licensing of its 3G Multimode Protocol Stack Software to its 10th Customer.
Cingular Wireless announced that Lucent has been selected to deploy a third-generation (3G) UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) trial network in the Atlanta market.
The new WLAN Protocol Tester R&S PTW70 from Rohde & Schwarz is a versatile test platform for the development, integration and verification of wireless local area network (WLAN) systems
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today the World Walker G-Card™, a new smart card that will enable DoCoMo mova® 2G subscribers to use both DoCoMo and non-DoCoMo GSM mobile phones for international roaming outside of Japan beginning June 1, 2004.
Shenandoah Telecommunications announced a contract with Lucent Technologies to purchase up to $20 million of third-generation (3G) CDMA2000 mobile network equipment in 2004
Vodafone and Sony Music Entertainment today announced the world's largest single mobile operator/music company content distribution agreement.
3G Americas announces that Gemplus, a provider of smart card solutions, is the newest member of its Board of Governors, effective 2004.
Mobile consumer applications will drive the take-up of data and generate traffic and revenues for mobile operators, according to a new study
With the promise of greater bandwidth on 3G networks, rapid advances in compression technologies, and new multimedia handset capabilities, the stars are beginning to align for mobile video services in the United States.
With immediate effect , Maestro cardholders and owners of pay-as-you-go mobile phones can now top up their mobiles 24 hours a day at around 2750 ATM locations in Austria.
The Vodafone Mobile Connect 3G / GPRS data card is used with almost any laptop to provide high-speed internet services and email access, letting you work on the move.
Siemens mobile, the mobile communication group at Siemens AG, intends to utilize a product offensive to win further market share in the Indonesian mobile phone market.
Lucent Technologies said it had agreed to acquire Telica, a provider of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) communications systems for next-generation networks.
The deployment of Wireless Local Area Networks (Wlans), and more specifically 802.11 networks, is becoming widespread. The benefits of increased productivity through mobility are encouraging many SMEs
Anritsu has introduced the Signature - MS2781A - signal analyser offering unparalleled performance, functionality, and ease of use.
TTI Telecom's partnership with RADCOM comes as the Company moves forward with its strategy to expand its addressable market with the development of new solutions
Nujira Ltd announced that it is demonstrating its industry leading system to customers. Nujira’s patent pending technology, which is suitable for WCDMA
The models are the 5406 and the 5407. The handsets have 3.2 megapixel cameras on board and the ability to record up to an hour's video.
Catapult Communications announced new capabilities for the DCT2000(R) test system that allow users to test 3GPP Cell Broadcast Services (CBS).
Nokia and Telecom Italia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation in the area of technological innovations.
Known all over the world for its feature-packed handsets that never sacrifice style, LG Mobile Phones is launching its sleek new LX5550 handset with U.S. Cellular.
Alcatel announced that Proximus, the leading mobile operator in Belgium, has deployed the first phase of its data backbone for 3G mobile communications
KDDI R&D Laboratories and KDDI Corp. have jointly developed a mobile phone terminal that receives digital terrestrial TV broadcasting
3 Hong Kong proudly presents the brand new NEC c616V video mobile phone, an upgraded model with a built-in 300,000-pixel VGA camera designed to bring more powerful video and photo shooting performance.
Vodafone is now displaying a new "3G" logo upon its website and will be used extensively to promote its forthcoming full-scale commercial 3G launch.
With the announcement by Sun Microsystems that joggers can take their own pulses using a Java-enabled mobile phone, the mobile applications companies are starting see a potential in the drive for fitness and well-being.
SAMSUNG announced the latest addition to its Mobile DRAM portfolio, a monolithic 256Mbit, 32-bit wide Double Data Rate (DDR) device that offers the bandwidth needed for photo-realistic 3D gaming in handsets.
T-Mobile Austria is inaugurating the commercial launch of its UMTS products. As a first stage, T-Mobile Austria is exclusively offering its GPRS/UMTS Multimedia Net Card
Hutchison Whampoa, which owns 3G mobile operator 3, is selling its part stake in one of its venture companies - Proctor and Gamble.
Vodafone K.K. announced the development of 5 new mobile handsets for summer 2004. The V602SH by Sharp, V601T by Toshiba, V401D by Mitsubishi Electric, V401SA by Sanyo and V402SH by Sharp
Motorola India announced the successful completion of Enhanced Data Rate for Global Evolution (EDGE) trials with Hutchison Max Telecom. Commercial deployment is scheduled for later in 2004.
Telia's 3.7 million plus mobile customers will be able to experience this summer's Olympic Games directly via their mobile handsets.
UK Broadband announced the launch of a high-speed wireless broadband service - NETVIGATOR - that will revolutionise the way people access and use the Internet.
Vodafone has awarded Nokia a contract to be the supplier of WCDMA 3G network infrastructure to Vodafone Australia and Vodafone New Zealand.
Riding the great wave of success from one of last year's best-selling phones from Verizon Wireless, LG Mobile Phones introduces the LG VX4600 mobile handset.
3 will offer their customers the ability to play advanced 3D multiplayer games over the 3G network as well as the opportunity to download the mophun gaming accelerator and great games directly to the mobile phone.
Flarion Technologies, the architect of the FLASH-OFDM® wireless broadband system and Vodafone KK in Japan announced today it will conduct a technology trial of Flarion's system for mobile broadband services.
Vodafone K.K. announced it has jointly developed a contactless interface prototype mobile handset with Sharp Corporation that is compatible with smart card-embedded flash memory cards.
At the opening ceremony of Orange France's "Villes Pilotes UMTS" project in Lille, Alcatel announced that it has been selected as the exclusive supplier of Orange France
3, the UK's first video mobile network today introduces the stylish and compact LG U8110, the latest handset to join its growing range of 3G phones.
The new venture is a digital multi-media broadcast operation – it will use digital radio capacity to transmit instantaneously, at high speed, substantial amounts of multi-media content
Business travelers and consumers on-the-move have an alternative to pay-as-you-go Wi-Fi access pricing, as Sprint announced a new monthly unlimited access plan
T-Mobile is opening yet another door to the world of mobile multimedia: with the first UMTS-enabled mobile phone, Nokia 7600, T-Mobile customers can now experience the whole range of mobile broadband communication.
Willtek Communications today announced the launch of its new 4916 Antenna Coupler, supporting the extended frequency ranges for 3G mobile phone testing.
SK Telecom announced that the company signed an MOU for mobile business cooperation with SAP, a worldwide software solution developer based in Germany,. This agreement will initiate the joint offering of mobile services and solutions to corporate clients.
Vodafone announces the introduction of "Vodafone live!TM with 3G" for consumers in Europe.
The latest handset review from Kevin Thomas of 3G.co.uk covers the new LG U8110 3G handset.
First Roaming partners for the mobile data communication by UMTS Vodafone mobile access to Intranet, InterNet and E-Mail offers via "mobile Connect Card UMTS" in six European countries
Ericsson has been awarded a contract by mobilkom austria to supply radio base stations for the expansion of its UMTS network. The frame agreement lasts through 2007. Delivery of base stations will start immediately.
Thai mobile operator AIS places an order for EDGE technology and expansion of its GPRS network worth 30 million US dollars
Alcatel announced that it has been selected by ETISALAT, the United Arab Emirates fixed and mobile operator, to carry out part of its 3G/UMTS deployments in the UAE.
picoChip successfully demonstrated its ultra-low-cost HSDPA-ready 3G picocell basestation at The Commodity Basestation conference in Bath, UK.
Building on the success of the best-selling Zire(TM) handhelds, palmOne, announced two color Zire handhelds.
3G Features May 2004
Vodafone Italia now offers the widest and most complete commercial offering for mobile services on the Italian market, thanks to UMTS technology, which now operates alongside the GSM/GPRS network.
The deployment of UMTS services in Europe will boost global sales of UMTS handsets from a 2003 level of 4 million units to more than 15 million by the end of 2004.
"TIM Turbo" commences today, the new line of third generation services that marks the commercial start-up of the combined Edge - UMTS network for TIM customers.
Makers of critical infrastructure equipment for next-generation wireless services are under mounting pressure to cut their prices to attract new customers,
Mindspeed Technologies announced that RADCOM Ltd is deploying Mindspeed's broadband access multiplexer (BAM), DS3/E3 Line Interface Unit (LIU), and OptiPHY(TM) ATM/POS devices in its Cellular Performer Analyzer system for 2.5 and 3G wireless networks.
Alcatel announced that it recently helped China Telecom deploy a full-fledged 3G trial network in Shanghai within three months. The network is now ready for 3G field testing sponsored by China's Ministry of Information Industry
OPTIMA will be used by Vodafone Italy to address Network Performance, Network Optimisation, Network Monitoring and Performance Alarming from a single platform.
picoChip announced it has publicly demonstrated its Modem, designed to be WiMAX compliant, at the IEEE 802.16 Standards Committee meeting in Shenzen, China.
With immediate effect , Maestro cardholders and owners of pay-as-you-go mobile phones can now top up their mobiles 24 hours a day at around 2750 ATM locations in Austria.
Nortel Networks and Orange have launched a pre-commercial UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) network and are debuting Orange’s new third generation (3G) service
Demonstrating the innovation leadership of T-Mobile and its commitment to offering world-class content, T-Mobile has won an award for its Mobile Jukebox service in the category of “Best Content or Information Service” at the Global Messaging Awards 2004 in London.
UMTS, after several years of relative stagnation, is now surging ahead strongly, according to ABI Research's latest "Wireless Infrastructure Quarterly Service".
StarCore, a leader in licensable processor technologies, announced at the Embedded Processor Forum today its new V4 architecture for use in mobile electronic devices.
QUALCOMM Incorporated congratulates Zapp on its launch of downloadable wireless products and services based on QUALCOMM's BREW system.
Cadence Incisive functional verification platform to verify IC and develop a reference design for China's next-generation TD-SCDMA mobile phone.
Swisscom Mobile, the leader in the Swiss mobile communications industry, has chosen the Tellabs® 6300 managed transport system to build an integrated access network architecture with high capacity for 2G and 3G traffic.
The Gartner study confirms Siemens mobile's success in 3G/UMTS network technology. With a market share of 23 percent, Siemens numbers among the world's leading equipment suppliers.
Novatel Wireless announced the receipt of over $7 million in new orders from existing customers for Merlin U530(TM) Wireless PC Card Modems.
Vodafone UK announces the creation of a significant new partnership arrangement with BT, bringing many benefits and opportunities to the customers of both organisations.
West Technology Research Solutions announced the availability of their just released, expanded Comprehensive Wireless Component Market Report, that provides a comprehensive review of wireless components spanning WAN technologies
HWCL and P&G established the initial joint venture in 1988 in Mainland China and together have built a very successful business. In 1997 by mutual agreement HWCL sold approximately 10% of its interest in P&G-H to a P&G
Advanced cellular data services, increased terminal capabilities, and the launch of digital terrestrial TV broadcasting in many countries, are just some of the drivers that have created a market for TV over cellular services.
Despite the proliferation of Java handsets worldwide and the increasing number of vendor models containing the platform, the number of actual Java users is significantly lower.
Anritsu has introduced its MT8510 Service Tester, enabling mobile handset manufacturers to carry out call processing and RF testing of 3G handsets.
Sunday Communications announced that it has finalised the terms of its supply contract and associated financing facilities with Shenzhen-based Huawei Technologies (Huawei).
QUALCOMM Incorporated announced the MSM6280 Mobile Station Modem chipset solution to enable higher data rates in support of advanced data services for High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), a next-generation feature of the WCDMA (UMTS) standard.
IPWireless has started shipping dual-band devices that allow users to roam across UMTS TDD networks in both 1900 MHz and 2010 MHz frequency bands
The CDMA Development Group (CDG) reported today that CDMA added nearly 13.5 million subscribers in 1Q 2004, reaching 202 million users worldwide.
Thin multimedia announced that QUALCOMM Incorporated has selected thin multimedia, inc.'s H.264 codec to be ported onto and integrated into QUALCOMM's video solution, for the MSM6500 and MSM6250 chipsets.
DTAC will upgrade the entire core network to Nokia "i-series" (MSCi's). Nokia will also provide planning, installation, commissioning and integration services.
NEC Corporation announced today the launch of PASOLINK Mx, a new line-up of fixed point-to-point wireless access system in the global market.
SKY Perfect Communications Inc. and NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that the two companies have agreed to jointly field test mobile video-clip streaming services and program-related information services
Nokia has been chosen by Polkomtel S.A. to supply and deploy the initial phase of its 3G network deployment in Poland
Cellcom Israel Ltd. and Nokia have signed an agreement under which Nokia will deliver and deploy a WCDMA 3G network covering the entire area of Sharon, a coastal region north of Tel-Aviv.
3 Hong Kong demonstrated its superior 3G network which is ranked among the world’s topmost 3G networks. As the first and only 3G network in Hong Kong, 3 has stayed ahead with its unrivalled network coverage
From 3GPP multimedia standards for mobile devices to the hottest tools and techniques for capturing, editing, encoding and delivering exceptional media content
The CDMA Development Group (CDG) reported today that across Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa, there are seven commercial CDMA2000 networks at 450 MHz, five more will launch in 2004 and three trials are taking place.
3G Americas and the CDMA Development Group (CDG) announced the conclusion of their collaboration in a series of joint technical workshops with leading GSM and CDMA operators and vendors to identify key elements necessary to ensure that Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) deployments
After first implementing the GSM network and 3G/UMTS base stations in southern Norway this declaration now covers the delivery and installation of GSM and 3G/UMTS radio and core equipment in the northern part of the country.
Siemens mobile and China’s leading mobile phone manufacturer, Ningbo Bird Co. Ltd. (Bird), will be joining forces in the future to develop and market mobile handsets.
3 announces today the choice of LG Electronics of Korea as preferred UMTS Videophone provider.
Nearly 75% of parents currently fear that children may be at risk by using 3G Phones according to a latest survey.
3 is launching the Pre-paid card 3Reload on the Swedish market. 3Reload makes it possible to keep full control of your mobile costs, while at the same time have access to all services from 3 and at a low cost.
Bridgewater Systems introduced GPRS Revenue Collector and Formatter, the GPRS version of its mediation solution that filters, formats and streams usage records to appropriate billing and settlement systems.
Hutchison Telecom launches two new prepaid SIM cards, the “CDMA Local Rechargeable SIM Card” and “CDMA Prepaid SIM Card”.
NTT DoCoMo unveiled the new mova® 506i series of three PDC (2G) i-mode® mobile phones.
It has started some days ago the cooperation between 3, the Mobile Video Company of the Hutchison Whampoa Group, and Cfn/Cnbc,
From an operators' perspective, WiMAX, the new wireless broadband standard, can ease the financial burden of deploying and expanding a network.
Mobile subscriber numbers in Africa have increased by over 1000% between 1998 and 2003 to reach 51.8 million. Mobile user numbers have long passed those of fixed line
Shipments of dual-mode cellular / voice-over-Wi-Fi enabled handsets will top 50 million by 2009.
picoChip successfully demonstrated its ultra-low-cost HSDPA-ready 3G picocell basestation at The Commodity Basestation conference in Bath, UK.
Nokia today expanded its CDMA product portfolio with the introduction of the Nokia 2112 phone, a new CDMA2000 1X entry level phone
By using 3G roaming-in service compatible handsets that will be provided by DoCoMo, subscribers will be able to make and receive calls using their regular local number.