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Roaming issues force groups to cooperate

They may be working closer these days, but make no mistake about it, the GSM Association, the CDMA Development Group and the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium remain strong competitors.All three associations will convene this week in Las Vegas at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's...

Law enforcement wants more spectrum

WASHINGTON-The 24 megahertz of spectrum set aside for public safety at 700 MHz is "not nearly enough" for current law enforcement needs, said Derek M. Siegle, FBI unit chief and program manager of the public-safety wireless network and a member of the Federal Law...

Amid WRC start, vendors complain of U.S. CDMA bias

WASHINGTON-As the World Radiocommunication Conference opens today in Turkey, trade and spectrum issues governing third-generation mobile-phone technology remain heavily mired in controversies that are likely to play out in coming months as competition for the multibillion dollar global wireless market heats up.On one front,...

Lucent, Siemens collaborate on 3G UMTS terminals

SWINDON, United Kingdom-Lucent Technologies Inc. and Siemens Information and Communications Mobile Group will form a third-generation Universal Mobile Telecommunications System terminal collaboration to prepare for the rollout of 3G UMTS networks.According to the companies, the collaboration will include joint marketing, pre-sale support, terminal supply,...

Multimedia forum to advance interoperability issues

As the thought of delivering multimedia services on wireless devices gains more attention, the Wireless Multimedia Forum aims to ensure interoperability among wireless multimedia protocols.PacketVideo Inc. last month established the new group with about 20 founding members, including representatives from vendors, carriers, content providers...

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Wireless Application Service Provider 2Roam Inc. announced strategic alliances with AdForce, MediaPlex, eCoupons and iQ.com to deliver advertising, coupon and e-marketing services to mobile consumers.Arch Communications Group Inc. said it has been named a preferred messaging provider of paging and messaging services for BellSouth...

Roaming, 3G spectrum allocation top issues for GSM Congress

NEW YORK-The GSM Congress convened its plenary meeting in Santiago, Chile, April 25 amid anticipation that the number of Global System for Mobile communications customers worldwide will reach 300 million by early May.With growth at a rate of about 10 million users per month...

Timing is right for synchronization

Content is king. That's the mantra repeated by many looking to make it big in the wireless Internet space these days. But for content to be valuable, it must be personal, and that is the driving force behind the growing interest in synchronization technologies...

Latin American Internet revolution to arrive on wireless devices

While wireless executives in North America plot in their war rooms about how to sell the wireless Web in an already highly penetrated Internet market, executives just south of the border are wringing their hands in anticipation that the wireless Internet will explode in...

Transcept, LGIC form strategic partnership

MANCHESTER, N.H.-Transcept Inc., a developer of radio-frequency distribution solutions for wireless telecommunications, announced a strategic partnership with LG Information & Communications Ltd. to jointly market Transcept/LGIC solutions for Code Division Multiple Access wireless operators.The companies reported successful first-phase product interoperability testing and certification of...

Manufacturers test GPRS interoperability

ASCOT, England-Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group and Nokia Networks are conducting General Packet Radio Services interoperability tests between handsets using Lucent's Sceptre chipset and Optimay protocol stack software solution and Nokia's GPRS infrastructure equipment. Lucent said the tests have been running successfully since December...

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FREEREALTIME.comFreeRealTime.com Inc. launched a beta version of FRT2go, a service for use on 3Com Corp.'s Palm Computing unit Palm VII and Palm.net service, giving its members wireless access to real-time stock quotes as well as other financial market information. The company noted it does...

Telecom Italia Mobile focuses on SIM cards

NEW YORK-Telecom Italia Mobile, Europe's largest wireless carrier, sees the Subscriber Identity Module that links each customer to its network as key to its control over an expanding array of wireless and wireline services.SIMs, also known as smart cards, are getting even more intelligent,...

Many industry players feel EDGE will not be big in Europe

A growing number of operators, vendors and analysts are not convinced EDGE technology will make significant inroads in Europe."In Europe, I'm not expecting a major deployment of EDGE," said Lothar Pauly, head of Siemens AG's global wireless business.EDGE, or Enhanced Data rates for GSM...

Siemens explains strategy for comeback into U.S. mobile handset market

Since its exit from the highly competitive U.S. mobile handset market in late 1998, Siemens AG has vowed to return.The German manufacturer will make its comeback this summer, but to a mobile-phone market that is even more crowded and competitive than ever before. Rapidly...

Motorola completes layered VoIP/3G packet-data call

NEW ORLEANS-Motorola Inc. said it successfully made a voice over Internet Protocol call on top of a third-generation high-speed packet data call at 384 kilobits per second in a laboratory experiment.The 3G experimental system is an Aspira network architecture-based system demonstrating 3G cellular services...

Canada’s Rogers AT&T makes first 3G call using Ericsson EDGE

MONTREAL-The transmission was delayed 20 minutes because the test PC had crashed. And the picture quality, to put it kindly, was choppy. Nevertheless, in February, Rogers AT&T Wireless and Ericsson Canada made the first wireless phone call in North America to be carried over...

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HandsetsPhilipsPhilips introduced several new handsets. The Ozeo GSM dual-band mobile phone offers a new user interface and a large LCD display with five text lines. The carousel icon screen feature simultaneously displays up to five visual icons representing the phone's functions and features. The...

Which wireless operating system? … Does it really matter?

Much has been made of the battle for supremacy of the operating system for the wireless data terminal market. With the number of Internet-enabled wireless devices expected to outnumber PC Internet connections within a few years, people are asking, "What is going to be...

Siemens to offer IP solution for enterprise networks

MUNICH, Germany-Siemens Information and Communication Network unveiled its strategy for next-generation enterprise Internet Protocol communications.The Siemens Enterprise Convergence Architecture, called HiPath, enables a company's existing voice and data infrastructures and applications to interoperate globally over all networks by using an open standard and distributed...

Market gap producing WAP alternatives

Most conversations regarding the wireless Internet in the industry today revolve around Wireless Application Protocol technology, but several companies are bucking this trend-aiming to extend Internet content to wireless phones using alternative means to WAP.Providing them the opportunity to do so is WAP itself....

Nokia’s Iu Interface to be ready for first 3G networks

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Oy announced the early availability of its open Iu Interface for third-generation mobile networks.Nokia said it will provide full compatibility to the Iu Interface-according to the 3G Partnership Program standards-when the first service launches next year. This will enable multivendor interconnection between...

Carriers anxious for GPRS handsets

General Packet Radio Service technology is a powerful proposition for Global System for Mobile communications operators anxious to comb in the huge revenues packetized wireless Internet access promises. That's why they want GPRS handsets this year.Product delays have been part of the wireless industry...

GSM World Congress filled with WAP-related news

Although some rumblings continue over Geoworks Corp.'s licensing program for Wireless Application Protocol technology, WAP-related announcements continued making news at last week's GSM World Congress in Cannes.Phone.com Inc. announced it formed a WAP interoperability testing lab, a software upgrade preview center and the latest...