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 host of new network performance issues brought about by the highly complex interaction of wireless...
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 customers to send pictures from the handset using T-Mobile's GPRS network and t-zones service.
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 semiconductor technology improves voice quality, decreases download times for data and increases the number...
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.Skeptics are coming out of the wireless woodwork to question whether greenfield operators can survive...
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 Motorola C331, which was co-designed by both companies and will be offered in...
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 new multimedia messaging services (MMS).In terms of the contract, Siemens is required to integrate...
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 services lies in having the flexibility to introduce compelling data and content services to...
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 Edgardo Bautista, product development head of Smart. As both providers grow their MMS subscribers,...
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 to alert all its CDPD customers of the change, and is offering them incentives to...
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 launch for December 2000, but it has postponed it several times since then. "We've...
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 16 peering agreements with other GRX platform providers are operational.The company said it...
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 wireless network operator chief executive officer-level board to replace its current structure and to...
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, GPRS PCMCIA card and subscriber identity module (SIM) as a pre-configured bundled solution to...
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, India's commercial capital.So far, MMS has been offered by operators in Singapore, Hong Kong...
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 its GPRS services."At Orange, we are seeking the best performance and services for our...
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, in an agreement valued at approximately $1.56 million. "Intec's Inter-mediatE product, combined with the...
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 thing and that by the end of this decade, it will offer mobile users...
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 range technologies with potential applications in companies and household.The upsurge in totally unregulated wireless...
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 similar move by rival China Unicom, which has already bought hundreds of thousands of...
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 messaging service.Using the service, customers can record short films themselves and send them by...
PARIS-Struggling French handset vendor Sagem said it registered several new contracts for GSM modules for mobile phones and it has received orders for more than 2 million units in the first nine months of 2002. The value of the contracts was not disclosed.Sagem also...
BEIJING-China Eastcom, one of China's 19 licensed CDMA handset manufacturers, has reached an agreement with carrier China Unicom to offer CDMA handsets to consumers at one-third of market prices. Its distribution arm Face One Telecommunications would price the handsets between 398 yuan (US$48.10) and...
PLANO, Texas-Enfora Inc. announced its Enabler G, a 900/1800 MHz GSM/GPRS module is now available."Our customers are excited that the effort to integrate a GSM/GPRS module has been significantly reduced by the Enabler-G's rugged design, small size, and integrated SIM carrier," explained Loren Anderson,...
LONDON-CellGlide, which offers products to optimize and monitor data traffic on GPRS networks, announced it secured $10 million in its second equity financing round."We have differentiated ourselves by offering a truly practical solution to the difficulties mobile operators come up against in trying to...
