NEW ORLEANS-Starent Networks Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said they have partnered to deliver next-generation infrastructure solutions for W-CDMA carriers.Terms of the agreement call for Starent to supply the Gateway GPRS Support Node for worldwide resale, and Starent and Samsung are jointly developing...
NEW ORLEANS--The second day of keynote speeches at this year's Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association show in New Orleans had a similar theme to last year's event with wireless local area network technology dominating much of the conversation as well as repeat appearances by...
NEW ORLEANS-Royal Philips Electronics and LogicaCMG announced an agreement to jointly supply multimedia messaging technology to mobile operators. The original equipment manufacturer umbrella agreement calls for the integration of Philips' Platform 4 Media Adapter transcoding engine into Logica's Multimedia Messaging Service Centre product range.In...
NEW ORLEANS-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced the formation of the AT&T Wireless Systems Integrator Program to help U.S. companies design and implement wireless data solutions. "By teaming with the systems integrators that these companies already rely on for IT support, we can streamline the...
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and Handspring Inc. announced the availability of GPRS technology for Treo users on Cingular's 1900 MHz GSM network. The upgrade to GPRS allows Cingular customers to access corporate or Internet e-mail inboxes and to seamlessly switch between voice and data applications...
NEW ORLEANS-Dynamic Telecommunications Inc. said it is demonstrating at CTIA Wireless 2003 its new ClaRiFy system, available commercially later this year, that "allows wireless carriers to efficiently and accurately measure the propagation of each GSM or GPRS base station, even in the presence of...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Sierra Wireless Inc. reported the commercial launch of Sierra Wireless' AirCard 750 for AT&T Wireless' GPRS data network.AT&T Wireless said the device will provide data speeds up to 56 kilobits per second and that it is currently...
HANNOVER, Germany-The march of new, advanced devices continued in conjunction with the CeBIT trade show, with Samsung, Siemens, NEC and Symbol all making announcements.Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. made perhaps the most interesting announcement with plans to sell a new style of wireless devices based...
HANNOVER, Germany-Nortel Networks issued separate announcements with two carriers, T-Mobile International and MmO2.T-Mobile selected the Brampton-Ontario-based vendor as a preferred supplier to deliver GPRS across it main markets in Europe, including Germany and the United Kingdom.Under the motto "O2 can do," wireless service provider...
MILPITAS, Calif.-Palm Inc. said it cut 19 percent of its total work force. The news, combined with a downgrading from JP Morgan, sent the company's stock down over 10 percent to about $12 per share.Palm spokeswoman Marlene Somsak said the cuts came from across...
BERVERTON, Ore.-Tektronix Inc. said it has agreed to extend its partnership with China's Research Institute of Telecommunications Transmission to develop GPRS networks and elements."Tektronix' history in China and its ongoing efforts to enable successful mobile network deployments in our country have encouraged us to...
BEIJING-China Mobile will double its investment in wireless data networks and GPRS this year, but reduce its investment in GSM networks. The forecast was made by CCID Consulting, affiliated with China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII), at its 2003 China IT Market Forum held...
CANNES, France-Operators and vendors alike expressed a quiet optimism for the upcoming year as the GSM community gathered for its annual global meeting last week in the south of France. The event focused less on when wideband CDMA launches would occur in Europe and...
CANNES, France-Nokia Corp. said its 6650 WCDMA-based third-generation phone was on track for first-half 2003 deliveries and that shipments of 10,000 test phones began last October to both operators and infrastructure vendors.Nokia also said it will trial its EDGE system capabilities in 15 commercial...
CANNES, France-L.M. Ericsson Chief Executive Officer Kurt Hellstrom reiterated his previous predictions for short-term uncertainty in the mobile market at a press conference here Wednesday, while taking operators to task for over-emphasizing capital expenditure cuts to the detriment of service quality."It's a pity there...
CANNES, France-RealNetworks Inc. announced two mobile media-related partnerships at this week's 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France. The company said Hong Kong wireless operator CSL will cooperate with Nokia to provide mobile video services based on RealNetworks' technology. The video service will give mobile...
CANNES, France-Anadigics Inc. announced a new family of switch products and what it describes as the world's smallest GSM/GPRS quad-band power amplifier modules at this week's 3GSM Show in Cannes, France.The company introduced the AWT6108 and AWT6123 PA modules using its advanced InGaP HBT...
JAKARTA, Indonesia-Singapore's StarHub said it would target more corporate customers by offering a broad array of wireless data services this year.StarHub, which achieved 640,000 subscribers by the end of last year, said it is targeting corporate customers who currently comprise roughly 5 percent of...
TORONTO-Canadian vendors are seeking more cooperation among carriers to promote interoperability. That's the message from a wireless conference hosted Tuesday by BMO Nesbitt Burns in Toronto.Mike Lazaridis, Research in Motion (RIM) co-chief executive officer (CEO), said, "The most important thing for us in inter-carrying...
SURABAYA, Indonesia-Indosat-M3 (IM3), the pioneer of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) services in Indonesia, has encountered a 90-percent drop in GPRS traffic after beginning fees for the service.I Made Harta Wijaya, IM3's general manager of product development, said the drop followed IM3's decision to...
DENVER, United States-Major European carriers are conducting Enhanced Data Networks for Global Evolution (EDGE) trials, highlighting a major triumph for a technology once proclaimed dead.Burdened by the cost of third-generation (3G) licenses and technical hiccups with launching Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) networks and...
NEW YORK-Carriers worldwide acquired about 54.7 million new subscribers last quarter, down 5.9 percent from the same period of 2001, bringing the total to nearly 1.132 billion and penetration to 19 percent, reported FastTrack Wireless, a New York-based market forecasting firm.Globally, net additions for...
NEW YORK-Carriers worldwide acquired about 54.7 million new subscribers last quarter, down 5.9 percent from the same period of 2001, bringing the total to nearly 1.132 billion and penetration to 19 percent, reported FastTrack Wireless Inc., a New York-based market forecasting firm.Globally, net additions...
BEIJING, China-Nokia Corp. said it has signed a $70 million contract to expand Beijing Mobile Communications Company Ltd.'s GSM network. It also will provide services that will enhance the capacity and features of the short message service centers, provide GPRS core network and technical...
