GPRS

BONN, Germany-T-Mobile has expanded its U.S.-originated wireless local area network strategy to Europe, rolling out the service in hot spots in Germany and Austria. The service is currently available in …

BEIJING-Already the largest mobile-phone market in the world with more than 190 million subscribers at the end of September, China is gearing up to introduce third generation (3G) services on …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Having failed to attract European third-generation (3G) license holders to use its alternative cdma2000 technology, Qualcomm now appears to have revised its strategy and is looking to tempt …

MANILA, The Philippines—Ayala-owned Globe Telecom has entered an agreement with Norwegian supplier Colibria for the development of a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) messaging application that allows subscribers to send …

NEW DELHI, India-Idea Cellular, a joint venture of AT&T Wireless International and Indian partners the Tatas and Birlas, on Thursday launched its much-awaited GSM service in the Indian capital, with …

LONDON-Actix said it has launched a GPRS solution that can converge Internet Protocol and wireless networks. “Its GPRS SVS has been developed in conjunction with mobile operators to address the …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile USA Inc. introduced a pair of color-screen, camera handsets including Sony Ericsson’s $100 T300 and Motorola Inc.’s $200 T720i. Each handset is available with an attachable camera allowing …

EINDHOVEN, United Kingdom-Royal Philips Electronics and Cingular Wireless L.L.C. reported a successful commercial network field trial of single antenna interference cancellation chips for GSM/GPRS mobile phones. The companies said the …

MANCHESTER, United Kingdom-Among the key issues worrying investors and wireless protagonists surrounding European third-generation (3G) in Germany and France includes the question of how many operators the markets can support. …

LIBERTYVILLE, Ill.-Motorola Inc. unveiled four new handsets for Cingular Wireless L.L.C.’s GSM and TDMA networks as well as T-Mobile USA Inc.’s GSM-only network. The pair of Cingular handsets includes the …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Siemens Telecommunications recently announced it has been awarded a 1 million Euro contract to supply South Africa’s mobile service provider, Vodacom, with the infrastructure and applications for its …

CUPERTINO, Calif.-Portal Software Inc. said Poland-based Polkomtel S.A. has launched multimedia messaging service using Infranet, Portal’s convergent billing solution. “Mobile operators are finding that the key to profitability for GPRS …

MANILA, The Philippines-While Globe Telecom and Smart Communications are now offering multimedia messaging service (MMS), such issues as interconnection, standards of interoperability and rates have to be tackled, according to …

REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. will stop accepting customers on its slow-speed packet-data CDPD network by next year, and will shut down the network in 2004. The company is working …

MOSCOW-Russia’s biggest carrier Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) again delayed the launch of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) into commercial operation because of a lack of demand. The carrier initially planned the …

FRANKFURT, Germany-T-Systems International said that more than 80 GPRS operators are currently linked via its GPRS Roaming Exchange. Of these, 12 carriers are directly connected to T-Systems’ GRX network, and …

ISTANBUL, Turkey-The GSM Association has announced a restructuring and renewed focus on speeding the implementation of third-generation networks amid continued W-CDMA delays across Europe. The group plans to establish a …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-In an effort to drive General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) traffic, Vodafone has struck a deal with Fujitsu Siemens that will see the cell-phone operator offer a laptop, …

NEW DELHI, India-India has become the fourth country in the Asia-Pacific region to have GSM players offering multimedia messaging service (MMS), with BPL Mobile launching the new service in Mumbai, …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Data optimization company Bytemobile scored another major customer win with its new deal with Orange UK, which will use the company’s Macara optimization service node platform to enhance …

ATLANTA-Intec Telecom Systems will provide Denmark’s Sonofon with a solution to collect and process usage data on voice, data and short message service traffic on its GSM and GPRS network, …

DUBLIN, Ireland-Forget about third-generation (3G) technology and don’t even think about General Packet Radio Service (GPRS). A group of researchers in Finland reckon fifth generation (5G) is the next big …

HONG KONG-With the cellular phone market saturated at 86 percent of the population, Hong Kong’s wireless engineers have wasted no time in jumping on the next bandwagon-WiFi and Bluetooth, short …

BEIJING-China Mobile plans to buy 300,000 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) handsets to promote its multimedia messaging service (MMS), which the company will launch in the coming days, following a …

BONN, Germany-T-Mobile Deutschland said it is the first European operator to launch video messaging, which allows users to send video clips via mobile phones. Japanese operators have already launched video …