UMTS

SWINDON, United Kingdom—Lucent said it completed a live high-speed data call using a variety of mobile Internet services on commercial Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service (UMTS) equipment. The call delivered a …

MADRID, Spain—Ipse 2000, an Italian mobile-phone operator controlled by Spanish Telef

OXFORD, United Kingdom—By the end of 2003, Chris Gent, the chief executive officer of Vodafone, expects 3G handsets to be available that will enable its customers to seamlessly roam between …

WOODBURY, New York, United States—Comverse announced Swedish mobile carrier Europolitan Vodafone will trial Comverse’s multimedia messaging service over its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) network. Comverse’s announcement comes a week …

HONG KONG-On the face of it, Hutchison Whampoa is a great success story. The company is among the leading international wireless operators and part of the giant Cheung Kong (Holdings), …

BUCHAREST, Romania-Most countries in Western Europe have awarded third-generation (3G) licenses at high fees to a few operators. Companies are expecting revenue from the services within a decade, according to …

Alcatel Paris. With Orascom Telecom for the supply and installation of GSM solutions in the Middle East and Africa. Value: Undisclosed. Brazil. With Telemar for a GSM 1800/GPRS network in …

BUCHAREST, Romania—Last week the Slovakian Minister of Economy approved a tender proposal for new GSM and UMTS licenses. The Slovakian government has set a minimum price of EUR23.1 million (US$21 …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Nokia Corp. said it has signed a UMTS contract to deliver core network and radio access for Europolitan Vodafone.Nokia will begin deliveries this month and will launch the network …

Finland’s Sonera said it will “take immediate steps to liquidate” Broadband Mobile ASA in Norway, partly because Enitel ASA, its equal partner in the third-generation wireless joint venture, already has …

BUCHAREST, Romania—According to the Romanian newspaper Ziarul Financiar, Ted Lattimore, president and chief operating officer (COO) of MobiFon, said the company is interested in buying a Romanian 3G license.Lattimore said …

While Japan’s largest wireless operator, NTT DoCoMo Inc., continues to trial its 3G network in select portions of Tokyo, speculation continues to circulate that the planned October launch of commercial …

Vodafone to delay 3G plans due to handset shortage Vodafone Group plc said it might delay the launch of its third-generation network until 2003 due to a shortage of handsets. …

GREECE Greece has awarded three Universal Mobile Telecommunications System licenses, one less than it had planned, when a fourth bidder failed to emerge. The country’s three incumbent operators, CosmOTE, owned …

OTC Wireless OTC Wireless unveiled its AirEZY-Access Management Unit, a product designed to make managing LAN and MAN networks easier. “Our new AirEZY AMU allows for massive scalability coupled with …

Alcatel China. With China Unicom for CDMA equipment for a national network. Value: US$157 million China. With Gansu Mobile, Shanxi Mobile and Ning Xia Mobile for GSM expansion contracts. Value: …

Keep it basic and make the money. Market research firm Telecompetition Inc. says while operators and vendors are mired in the tightening economic landscape of Western Europe, they seem to …

HELSINKI-Nokia Corp. and Finnish operator Sonera said they have conducted tests that determined data packets could be transmitted through Sonera GPRS Roaming Exchange on Nokia’s UMTS platform.

Portugal Oni Way, a Portuguese mobile operator that recently won a UMTS 3G license, has selected Accenture as the primary systems integrator for its integrated billing solution. The solution includes …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium announced they disagree with several conclusion in the CDMA Development Group’s sponsored June 2001 study “GSM or CDMA: The Commercial and Technology Challenges for …

With an eye to rich services, reduced complexity and higher profits for service providers catering to their enterprise customers, Lucent Technologies Inc. has rolled out five new high performance, attractively …

PacketVideo Corp. scored a major deal today with Siemens Information and Communication Mobile, which will resell the streaming media company’s MPEG-4 technology platform to mobile operators. The deal is another …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Svenska UMTS Nat AB has selected Ericsson as the sole supplier of its UMTS network in the country. According to the letter of intent, Ericsson will deliver and implement …

NEW YORK-Carrier network sharing, which made headlines this month in Europe with regard to third-generation wireless, is nothing new and will not hurt the prospects of equipment providers, executives of …

FRANKFURT, Germany-In a win for new entrants in Germany’s mobile market, RegTP, the German telecom regulator, said it would allow the country’s six Universal Mobile Telecommunications System license holders to …