Alcatel supplied European wireless operators France Telecom Mobiles, Mobistar and Dutchtone a solution that will allow their customers to continue making or receiving calls on their prepaid mobile phones when they are traveling abroad. Alcatel said the services are delivered using its intelligent network platform based on the CAMEL standard interface integrated between the IN platforms and the mobile switches, enabling homogeneous services over multiple GSM networks.
Cellemetry L.L.C. announced it has signed two new customers to its Cellemetry Data Service. SiGEM is a wireless location tracking system developer and has selected Cellemetry for its ePing suite of enterprise and consumer-based GPS location tracking solutions. Nu-Metrics, an electronic highway monitoring and road safety solution provider, selected the service for its highway crash cushion, traffic control signal and liquid levels monitoring solutions, with plans to add other applications in the future.
Com-Net Ericsson announced it has entered a strategic alliance with Marconi to distribute Marconi’s mobile communications equipment based on the TETRA digital radio standard. Under the agreement, Com-Net Ericsson will sell the Marconi TETRA portfolio, including all of the fixed-element components and user terminals of a fully standards-based TETRA network necessary to complete a custom, turnkey private communications system. The two companies also have agreed to jointly develop next-generation TETRA solutions.
Portuguese mobile operator Optimus selected Nokia Corp. to supply its GPRS core network allowing the rollout of packet-based mobile Internet services. “GPRS is an ideal bearer for WAP and mobile portal services, which we have already launched,” said Antonio Casanova, chief executive officer of Optimus. “We see the mobile Internet as having great potential and with the Nokia GPRS system and Nokia’s support, we will be able to meet that demand and be ideally positioned for the advent of 3G services.”
