UMTS

PARIS—The tender to sell France’s remaining two Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) licenses opened on 1 January, with bids due by 16 May. The government’s first attempt to sell four …

HELSINKI, Finland—Sonera opened its third-generation network in Finland on Jan. 1 in line with its license conditions. However, commercial service will not begin until UMTS phones become available to consumers. …

1. Jan. 29 Re-auction brings in record $17B to FCC After 101 rounds and $16.85 billion, the Federal Communications Commission’s auction of 422 personal communications services licenses ended last Friday. …

MADRID, Spain-Vodafone Group plc completed live international roaming calls using the UMTS 3GPP wireless standard between Vodafone’s operations in Madrid, Spain, and J-Phone in Tokyo. The calls were made with …

MADRID, Spain—Vodafone Group plc completed live international roaming calls using the UMTS 3GPP wireless standard between Vodafone’s operations in Madrid, Spain and J-Phone in Tokyo. The calls were made with …

HELSINKI, Finland—Finnish mobile operators, headed by the Swedish telecom company Telia Mobile, are exploring collaboration in constructing licensed third-generation (3G) networks. Telia is hoping to reach an accommodation with fellow …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Allgon said Norway’s Telenor selected it as the exclusive supplier of GSM and Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) repeaters. Allgon will supply standard and compact repeaters and associated fiber-optic …

BUCHAREST, Romania—In a press statement, the Czech Telecommunications Office (CTU) said that only mobile operators RadioMobil and EuroTel Praha submitted bids for third-generation (3G) licenses in the country. The third …

WIESBADEN, Germany—Motorola Inc. says it will perform its first German UMTS infrastructure field trials early next year, based on a series of UMTS tests since September 2001 at its laboratory …

OSLO, Norway—Norway’s Telenor Mobile said it will open its third-generation (3G) network on 1 December according to its license conditions. The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System network (UMTS) will initially cover …

OSLO, Norway—Norway’s Telenor Mobile said it will open its third-generation network on Dec. 1 according to its license conditions. The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System network will initially cover central areas …

LISBON, Portugal—Portuguese mobile carrier Optimus and equipment vendor Nortel Networks have completed live calls using UMTS Third Generation Partnership Project technology, according to a statement. Nortel Networks said both companies …

WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse has been chosen to provide its unified messaging solution to Portugal’s Vodafone, a mobile operator that has 2.6 million cellular customers and holds 35 percent of the market …

MOSCOW—Two major Russian GSM carriers—MTS and Vimpelcom (BeeLine)—launched their first third-generation (3G) Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) network trial sections this month, and a third carrier is to follow suit …

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. says Finnish transport and communications minister Olli-Pekka Heinonen has placed “the first inter-continental UMTS phone call’ to Finland. “This was the first of its kind between two …

WOODBURY, N.Y.—Comverse has been chosen to provide its unified messaging solution to Portugal’s Vodafone, a mobile operator that has 2.6 million cellular customers and holds 35 percent of the market …

HELSINKI, Finland—Denmark’s TDC has blamed “technical problems” for its decision to delay the launch of its third-generation (3G) mobile-phone network in Switzerland. The launch, which had originally been scheduled to …

MOSCOW—The second-biggest Russian carrier Vimpelcom (BeeLine) chose Alcatel as its equipment supplier for a third-generation (3G) network. The companies signed a memo of intent, which envisages that the KB Impulse, …

PARIS—Orange said it has conducted the first voice, data and video communications on the Orange Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) network in Paris, with equipment from Alcatel. The pre-commercial network …

Audiovox Communications Audiovox Communications introduced the Maestro, a Pocket PC that uses Microsoft Windows Powered Pocket PC 2002 software. The product features 32 MB of SDRAM and 32 MB of …

BARCELONA, Spain-Logica said it demonstrated a mobile multimedia messaging system with Ezos at the UMTS 2001 Forum. Logica offers the Multimedia Messaging Service Center (MMSC), and Ezos develops client software. …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Skanova, a Swedish developer of telephony, Internet and broadband services, has signed an agreement on the delivery of network capacity to the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) network planned …

ROCHELLE PARK, N.J.—Schema launched its UMTS OptiPlanner network planning product as part of its network optimization solution designed to allow operators to plan third-generation networks.Schema said the solution enables the …

CINCINNATI—Convergys Corp. and Logica plan to demonstrate an integrated prepaid and postpaid billing system this week at the 2001 UMTS Congress in Barcelona.According to the companies, the demonstration will show …

FRANKFURT, Germany—Nortel Networks said it has a contract with T-Mobil to supply it with its high-performance frame relay core network consisting of Passport 7480 for General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) …