The issue with U.S.-based Qualcomm has never been whether it has great technology, but whether its technology can make great market strides. Stalked by what industry watchers call either envy or sheer dominance of GSM-based technology, Qualcomm has had to combat GSM's increasing global...
CANNES, France-Operators and vendors alike expressed a quiet optimism for the upcoming year as the GSM community gathered for its annual global meeting last week in the south of France. The event focused less on when wideband CDMA launches would occur in Europe and...
CANNES, France-Wireless streaming video company PacketVideo Corp. announced it teamed with Austrian technology company Kapsch CarrierCom AG to create a wireless multimedia service for Mobilkom Austria's newly launched UMTS network.The service is based on PacketVideo's pv3 Mobilmedia System, and allows users to view pre-recorded...
CANNES, France-Powerwave Technologies Inc. said it is demonstrating its multicarrier power amplifier technology for UMTS networks, which it claims delivers 22 percent efficiency."Powerwave's next-generation amplifier solutions have once again set a powerful performance standard for the industry," stated Bruce C. Edwards, president and chief...
DALLAS-Alcatel and NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s DoCoMo Engineering Inc. subsidiary signed an agreement on consulting and cooperation for UMTS indoor mobile communication network design, operations and enhancement.Terms of the agreement were not released.
CANNES, France-L.M. Ericsson flexed its muscles within and outside the 3GSM Congress with a series of announcements from interoperability testing to deals with carriers and content providers as well as a former semiconductor partner.The Swedish vendor signed a contract to supply UMTS gear to...
CANNES, France-The Mobile Communications Department of the Institut Eurecom announced the release of UMTS TDD software under a GNU public license developed within the PLATON platform, an open platform that enables the experimentation and implementation of applications, services and devices for future-generation mobile systems.Demonstrations...
DALLAS, Texas-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has demonstrated a 30-fold increase in UMTS radio capacity, using new multiple input, multiple output and multibeam smart antenna technologies."Using these innovations, Nortel Networks has demonstrated wireless data applications, including streaming video, large file transfers and video conferencing,...
SAN FRANCISCO-Researchers from Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Bell Labs announced what it describes as the world's first turbo decoder chip for terminals that support an enhanced version of UMTS called High Speed Downlink Packet Access."The Bell Labs-designed chip, which will be licensed to manufacturers of...
CANNES, France-Emblaze Systems, which develops customized services and technologies for wireless carriers, will join Micorsoft, Nortel, LG and others to demonstrate third-generation (3G) technologies for mobile carriers at this year's 3GSM World Congress in Cannes. Emblaze will demonstrate: Microsoft Internet content, including movie trailers...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it has conducted what it described as the first Internet Protocol Version 6 over UMTS network, using a medical emergency system that moves among different types of access networks."From a hospital setting, doctors can observe the patient in the ambulance,...
DENVER, United States-Major European carriers are conducting Enhanced Data Networks for Global Evolution (EDGE) trials, highlighting a major triumph for a technology once proclaimed dead.Burdened by the cost of third-generation (3G) licenses and technical hiccups with launching Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) networks and...
PARIS-Alcatel signed a memorandum of understanding with United Arab Emirates (UAE) mobile operator Etisalat to supply a trial Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) network in Abu Dhabi.Under the agreement, Alcatel will deliver and install a complete UMTS network. The timeframe of the trial was...
SHANGHAI, China-Motorola unveiled today in Shanghai, China, eight new handsets that feature EMS and MMS messaging technologies; Java capabilities; support for GPRS, EDGE and UMTS/WCDMA; color screens; and polyphonic speakers.Included in Motorola's 2003 lineup are:the Motorola E365 features an embedded camera;the Motorola V600 also...
HONG KONG-For debt-choked Western operators, third-generation (3G) profits have proven to be a mirage, and if the technology can be made viable, it will likely happen first in Asia.At the ITU Telecom Asia event held in Hong Kong last month, all the ingredients for...
MADRID, Spain-According to their newly reached "amicable agreement," Quam will pay E-Plus approximately $154 million before the end of December 2002 as compensation for the termination of all existing business relations between the two companies in Germany. In addition, E-Plus also can take over...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. chief technology officer Rod Nelson was elected chariman of the board of governors for the 3G Americas industry organization, succeeding Cingular Wireless L.L.C. CTO Bill Clift beginning in January. Clift, who served as chairman of the GSM technology-based organization...
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Austrian operator Mobilkom Austria has awarded L.M. Ericsson a service assurance contract with an undisclosed value. The agreement will allow Mobilkom Austria to have one focus point for monitoring network and application performance, Ericsson said.The system delivered to Austria's leading wireless carrier includes...
DALLAS-Allgon announced it will supply solutions for in-building coverage in a new terminal at Munich's international airport."The new terminal at Munich's international airport will obtain a state-of-art multi-band solution providing coverage to GSM 900 and 1800 as well as UMTS to four mobile operators...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Mobility Network Systems Inc. announced its ipRAN products are compatible with the Generic Interface Specification (GIS) developed by iPass Inc., which allows mobile operators to add wireless LAN roaming to their networks."Our partnership with iPass allows mobile operators to offer their customers...
DALLAS-The future of GSM-based next-generation services are being demonstrated this week as AT&T Wireless Services Inc., Ericsson Inc., Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp., Nortel Networks Ltd. and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications have gathered in Dallas to show support and showcase services using both EDGE and...
In spite of mammoth debt, operators are beginning to loosen their purse strings to buy equipment again, according to a report by market research firm Dell'Oro Group.The report said Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) equipment revenue jumped fourfold to about US$800 million in the...
