MONTREAL-The GSM Alliance and Nortel Networks announced they completed North America’s first third-generation wireless telephone call using a wideband Code Division Multiple Access trial network under live conditions.
The trial is one the GSM Alliance announced last year would take place in a MicroCell Telecommunications Inc. testing lab in Canada, under a developmental radio license from Industry Canada.
Nortel Networks and Panasonic provided the network hardware, software and terminals under an alliance formed last year to develop 3G wireless voice and data solutions.
Participants in the trial will be able to test high-bandwidth Internet browsing, video conferencing, file transfer and voice-over-Internet protocol services using prototype personal phones, wireless modems, digital cameras and other consumer devices from Panasonic.
