SAN JOSE, Calif.—Network infrastructure company Tahoe Networks Inc. has announced partnerships with two companies to provide mobile data services for wireless operators.The two companies are Kabira Technologies Inc. and XACCT Technologies. The Kabira-Tahoe partnership will "enable GPRS, CDMA and UMTS operators to rapidly integrate...
MOSCOW—Third-generation (3G) licenses will be issued in Russia only after the law on communications is amended, according to First Deputy Communications Minister Yuri Pavlenko."The 3G Association has carried out the necessary research and prepared the required documents. However, the legislative base for the introduction...
MUNICH, Germany—Siemens AG won a contract to supply the UMTS network for Tele2 in Norway. The contract value was not disclosed.Deliveries and installations will begin in May in Oslo, Siemens said.Tele2 is a greenfield operator in Norway, where four operators hold UMTS licenses.
TEL AVIV, Israel—Ceragon Networks Ltd. announced it will deploy its FibeAir wireless backhaul system on Sonofon's cellular network in Denmark."This agreement marks our third major cellular win in Scandinavia," said Shraga Katz, president and chief executive officer of Ceragon. "With major cellular deployments in...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Nordic telecom operators Telia AB and Sonera Corp. announced plans to merge through an all-stock transaction, creating a combined company with 2001 revenues of $7.9 billion.Sonera shareholders will receive 1.5144 Telia shares in exchange for each Sonera share, offering a premium of 15.8...
HELSINKI, Finland—Finnish operator Sonera plans to offer commercial UMTS services by Sept. 26, once terminals for the new services become available, the operator announced. If the carrier meets the deadline, the network will be one of the first commercial third-generation systems in Europe.Sonera currently...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia and AT&T Wireless said they have completed their joint MoU to develop and test advanced enhancements supporting the evolution of an All-IP network."The finalization of this agreement validates the use of All-IP technologies with EDGE and UMTS to ensure that advanced multimedia...
TABY, Sweden—Allgon announced it will supply base station antennas to Swedish UMTS network operators 3GIS and Hi3G."We won the contracts in hard competition, which once again confirms our high competence in 3G technology," said Jeff Bork, chief executive officer of Allgon. "Allgon is the...
WIESBADEN, Germany—Motorola said it has successfully completed its first Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) voice call in the country in line with 3GPP standard release 99 version."It establishes another basis to specifically optimize our technologies for commercial implementation with network operators," said Jerry Chard,...
BELLEVUE, Washington, United States—3G Americas, a new trade organization representing five principal wireless technologies in the Americas, launched to help unify the U.S. wireless industry.GSM, TDMA, GPRS, EDGE and UMTS carriers and vendors will collaborate on regulatory and technical issues. Chris Pearson, former executive...
TEL AVIV, Israel—Ceragon Networks Ltd. has added a fixed wireless SONET/SDH system with a built-in add-drop-multiplexer for cellular metropolitan infrastructure networks to its FibeAir product family.According to Ceragon, SONET/SDH networking equipment can offer carriers advantages as cellular subscriber numbers increase and next-generation services are...
MADRID—Telefonica Moviles SA selected Nortel Networks to supply radio access equipment for its UMTS rollouts in Germany and Spain in a contract valued at about $250 million over three years.Nortel said it will provide $230 million in funding for the contract."We will work closely...
HANNOVER, Germany—Deutsche Telekom and Microsoft Corp. are presenting mobile solutions for business customers at this week's CeBIT trade show in Germany and announced the companies will cooperate in developing devices for next-generation mobile phones.The first offerings should be available by the third quarter.Under the...
LONDON—The UMTS Forum, an association that promotes global Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) adoption, released a study stating that revenue from third-generation (3G) networks will reach US$320 billion in 2010 alone and around US$1 trillion over the decade. The group, which released the study...
LONDON—The UMTS Forum, an association that promotes global UMTS adoption, released a study stating that revenue from third-generation networks will reach $320 billion in 2010 alone and around $1 trillion over the decade. The group, which released the study to gauge 3G services demand...
CANNES, France—The mobile industry put on a brave face last week at the annual 3GSM World Congress here, with few signs of the financial downturn the industry is currently enduring showing through to the exhibition halls or the company-rented yachts that line the harbor...
LOS ANGELES—Oberthur Card Systems unveiled its SIMphonIC 3G Composer, a software tool for developing and simulating applications and services on 2G and 3G UMTS networks, this week at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes.Oberthur Card Systems demonstrated three types of application development on Java...
After announcing an aggressive business strategy at last year's GSM Congress, Qualcomm would appear to have backtracked to something more achievable.The company's prior plans entailed persuading European GSM operators to consider Qualcomm's cdma2000 technology over UMTS, thought by many at the time to be...
NEW YORK—AT&T Wireless Services and L.M. Ericsson said they completed the first live UMTS voice call in the United States as part of a testing process to help ensure AT&T Wireless delivers next-generation capabilities to its subscribers on schedule.The call was made using Ericsson...
CANNES, France—Nortel Networks made two announcements at this week's 3GSM World Congress in France.The company commercially launched its Network Gateway Server (NGS), which it said simplifies the development of data applications so they can be launched faster at minimal costs. Nortel said the product...
CANNES, France—Radio Frequency Investigation unveiled its 3G UMTS RF Conformance System for cellular manufacturers and network operators.The system, which was developed by Racal Instruments, incorporates the 6401 3G UMTS test transceiver and protocol test set. "RFI will fully validate the system to enable us...
GENEVA—Europe’s mobile users will likely wait much longer than expected for next-generation cellular, as the daunting implications of full-scale third-generation (3G) deployment are finally brought home to the region’s 60-plus operators.With many players already having committed hundreds of millions of euros to securing national...
Handsets/wireless devicesSonySony Electronics unveiled its CLIE handhePEG-T415 ld with reduced profile, featuring a slim design with aluminum case and enhanced infrared port for controlling audio and video equipment. The company also...
SWINDON, U.K.—Lucent Technologies and Qualcomm said they have collaborated to place a series of voice calls employing Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) technology in compliance with the 3G Partnership Program (3GPP)."Lucent tested its commercial-grade UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network with a Qualcomm CDMA technologies...
