Motorola tried to square up to recent hard times with a series of announcements from product launches and contract wins to brokered alliances and games.The announcements made last week at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, include the launch of a five-strong portfolio...
CANNES, France-GVC Corp. signed a deal for Agere Systems to supply its GPRS Class 8 cell phone chipset and software platform solution for wireless handsets."We chose Agere Systems' Class 8 solution because it can enable much faster Internet data rates on wireless handsets than...
GUEMLIGEN, Switzerland-Comfone announced it completed the first stage of testing on its GRX product, which the company said will act as an Internet Protocol backbone to connect GPRS networks to allow carriers to provide worldwide roaming.The end-to-end tests over the GRX backbone involved several...
LONDON-BABT Product Service, a test, certification and approvals management organization, chose Anite to upgrade its GSM test equipment. Anite will supply the U.K-based group with a GPRS Radio Measurement Tester, as well as a GPRS upgrade to its SAT signaling tester.
NEW YORK-Why wait for 3G, whenever that might be, when you can provide multimedia services over wireless networks today?That is the message of Nehemiah Davidson, chief executive officer of Jigami, Rosh Haayin, Israel, developer of the trademarked 3Gate platform and content switch.Carrier trials are...
Texas Instruments Inc., ever seeking a new berth for itself in the chip business, has developed a new device to enable handset manufacturers to build smaller systems with fewer components and at lesser costs.The product, TRF6150, is compliant to both 2.5 and third-generation technologies...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced it will deliver its GPRS core network and mobile Internet Platform in Latin America to Nuevatel in Bolivia. The deal also includes Nokia's Professional Services, which covers project management and implementation.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson signed an agreement with Sigma for sales and support of the trial version of Ericsson's R520 handset, the company's first GPRS telephones based on Bluetooth technology.Endtext
The fat cat of vendors, Nokia Corp., ate humble pie last week despite dishing out a juicy fourth-quarter report.The report, which beat estimates in spite of recent rumblings about a slowdown in handset sales, is a bellwether of the hopes and fears of the...
Openwave Systems Inc., the offspring of Phone.com and Software.com's recent union, became the darling of Wall Street last week following its announcement to introduce a new browser for packet-based GPRS and third-generation wireless networks, and it already has a customer in KDDI of Japan.The...
LONDON-Terra Mobile and Digital Island plan to partner to improve the delivery of content and services to GPRS devices.The agreement calls for Digital Island to deploy its Footprint Content Delivery Network to Terra Mobile's GPRS services to help build a test bed to improve...
L.M. Ericsson left an ironic trail last week.It extolled its third-generation technology while surrendering its phone-making business and posting a fourth-quarter loss that limped behind expectations.The Swedish company outsourced its phone-making business to Singapore-based Flextronics International Ltd. in an admission of delivery failures from...
PARIS-Austrian mobile operator Tele.ring launched GPRS services networkwide, according to Alcatel, which supplied the equipment. Tele.ring is owned 100 percent by Vodafone Group plc. Tele.ring is the first Austrian operator to launch GPRS services, Alcatel said.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. will use Sierra Wireless' GPRS wireless modems for its plans to deploy GPRS, which expands the companies' previous $30 million agreement for EDGE wireless data devices."Sierra Wireless and AT&T Wireless have worked together to develop industry-leading wireless Internet...
AetherAether Systems Inc. introduced version 1.1 of its ScoutWeb software component of the ScoutWare product suite. The new version supports SSL encryption as well as various other levels of encryption security, enabling users to access Web content and applications via standard SSL connections that...
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-In a move that could further i-mode's push into Europe, Telecom Italia Mobile said it will jointly develop and introduce a new mobile Internet concept for the pan-European market with KPN Mobile and its Japanese partner NTT DoCoMo.TIM said the joint venture...
GENEVA-With the world's first third-generation (3G) mobile systems due to come online in Japan in less than a year, Europe's wireless operators are gearing up for an intense round of bidding for the right to be among the first to offer broadband wireless services...
PARIS-Mitsubishi's European telecommunications brand Trium released its new GSM/GPRS phone-enabled pocket PC, Mondo, which the company said will be its flagship product this year.Mondo features a high-powered 166 MHz Intel processor and a variety of Microsoft Corp. software products. It will initially be available...
Ericsson has signed Ukraine's first GPRS contract with Kyivstar for advanced mobile Internet services.The $100 million contract, which includes GSM dual-band enhanced capacity, allows Ericsson to provide GPRS/GSM core and radio access infrastructure equipment in Ukraine's main cities.Commercial operation is scheduled for the second...
Like the harmony of opposites, caution and adventure characterize the journey to the wide-scale rollout of GPRS. Vendors are playing starry-eyed idealists while operators are avoiding a possible precipice on board the chief migration vehicle: handsets.In view of their contrasting attitudes, operators' low blood pressure...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-2000 marked the year GSM fully made its way into the Latin American market.The first cellular networks were installed in Latin America during the late 1980s, with AMPS analog technology. Later, the majority migrated to TDMA and CDMA equipment, following the Northern...
NEW DELHI, India-Several leading GSM operators in the Asian region have announced plans for migration to 2.5-generation (2.5G) services during 2001. Many of them hope to roll out commercial General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) services during the year, but mass expansion of the new...
DENVER, United States-With AT&T Wireless Services' announcement it will overlay its existing TDMA-based network with a GSM network supporting General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), the pressure is on other TDMA carriers, specifically the largest U.S.-based TDMA carrier Cingular Wireless, as to its future technology...
PDA technologyBlue ImpactBlue Impact, a partner of CellPoint, introduced a combined GSM/global positioning system (GPS) module for the Handspring Visor called Tellmen. The Tellmen module is compatible with CellPoint's location platform and services, allowing the Visor to access all CellPoint location services offered by...
