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GENEVA-The International Telecommunication Union group responsible for signaling requirements and protocols agreed July 2 on a second set of Bearer Independent Call Control protocols, which will, among other features, facilitate …

Explaining logic behind 3GSM Dear Editor: Regarding the opinion article “Happy Families” in the May-June 2001 issue, no one should leave Stuart Sharrock “disturbed” for too long. However, I would …

As they launch their enhanced data networks, carriers are also planning for the third generation (3G). Carriers that choose cdma2000 have direct paths to 3G because there are no interim …

GENEVA-With just a few months to go until the next ITU World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-2000) on 8 May-2 June in Istanbul, Turkey, tensions are already running high as rival national …

HONG KONG-“Third-generation services are here,” proclaimed the advertisements from Qualcomm at International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom Asia 2000. “The wait is over.” Korea’s SK Telecom was the first operator to …

HONG KONG-“This time it’s for real,” stated Robert Mao, president of Nortel Networks China. But Irwin Jacobs, chairman of Qualcomm, was rather more sanguine. “I’ve gone from being cautiously optimistic,” …

The talk throughout 2000 centered on third-generation (3G) technology-its high costs, functionality, risks and mostly its promise. But 3G has different meanings in different circles. Because 3G is something that …

WASHINGTON-The 3rd Generation Partnership Project announced new working relationships with the International Telecommunication Union and the Internet Engineering Task Force, which 3GPP hopes will strengthen the groups’ ties. Under the …

Seven companies set up a TD-SCDMA Technical Forum in Beijing. TD-SCDMA is a third-generation (3G) mobile-phone standard developed by the China Academy of Telecommunications Technology (CATT) and Siemens. The seven …

MONTREAL-The International Telecommunication Union established guidelines for streamlining its procedures, which will “reduce time-to-market delivery of standards needed to meet the fast-changing needs of the industry and of the market,” …

BEIJING-China’s telecom circles are hotly debating whether the country’s own standard for third-generation (3G) mobile communications-Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA)-will be the goose with the golden eggs, …

HONG KONG-The government of Hong Kong is likely to be among the first in the Asia-Pacific region to clear spectrum and issue licenses for third-generation (3G) mobile phones, according to …

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 …

GENEVA-Despite the best efforts of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Secretary General Yoshio Utsumi, the reform process designed to drag the 135-year-old telecommunications standardization body into the 21st century has once …

GENEVA-As WRC-2000 delegates prepare to pack their bags and head off for four grueling weeks of debates and technical deliberations in Istanbul, Turkey, Europe’s Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) lobby …

ISTANBUL, Turkey-The International Telecommunication Union said its member countries have reached a treaty agreement for changes to international allocations of radio-frequency spectrum and all associated regulatory provisions. The treaty is …

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil-Jim Murrell, chairman of the North American GSM Association, could not use his Global System for Mobile communications phone last week in Brazil during Telecom Americas 2000. …

Integrating satellite communication technology with the Internet became somewhat of a theme among mobile satellite services carriers last week, following a Datacomm Research Co. report suggesting satellite voice services aren’t …

American wireless firms and the U.S. government are cautiously optimistic about a move the European Commission plans to make to open Europe to competing third-generation wireless standards. The EC early …

The Operators Harmonization Group-which began work more than a year ago as a loosely tied consortium of four operators trying to end the global debate over third-generation technology standards-is now …

GENEVA-A 26-member Reform Advisory Panel, comprised of ministers and other senior government officials, industry heads, regulators and operators, met in Geneva to agree on key principles that should guide the …

Unified Communication Services Conference March 20-22 International Business Communications Inc. Orlando, Fla. (508) 481-6400. Trillium’s IP Telephony and 3G Wireless Technical Seminar March 22 Trillium Digital Systems Inc. Santa Clara, …

CTIA Wireless 2000 February 28-March 1 Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans. (202) 785-2842. Strategic Cellular and Wireless Communications Seminar March 2-3 Herschel Shosteck Associates …

Competition First in 2000-CompTel Annual Convention & Trade Exposition February 20-23 Competitive Telecommunications Association. Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, Calif. (330) 425-9330 ext. 802. www.comptel.org. Wireless Symposium-Portable By Design …

Public skirmishes over third-generation technology died last year when the wireless industry embraced a harmonized CDMA-based standard, but old feelings between camps die hard it seems. The CDMA Development Group, …