SWINDON, U.K.—Lucent Technologies Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. said they have collaborated to place a series of voice calls employing UMTS technology in compliance with the 3G Partnership Program."Lucent tested its commercial-grade UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network with a Qualcomm CDMA technologies MSM5200 mobile station...
HELSINKI, Finland—Skanova, the wholesale division of the Swedish state telecom Telia, signed a letter of understanding to sell network capacity to Svenska UMTS-net, a company that is building a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) system for Telia and the Sweden-based European mobile telephone operator...
MOSCOW—Despite a recent Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) test by one of Russia's largest operators, Russian Communications Minister Leonid Reiman refused to disclose the timeline for issuing the first third-generation (3G) license in the country. "The main barrier today is a lack of 3G...
BUCHAREST, Romania—Austrian operator One said it will launch third-generation (3G) services in the second half of 2002 once sufficient handsets are available. In addition, the operator said it managed to win almost 70,000 new customers in Christmas sales. The company was the first provider...
BUCHAREST, Romania—Slovakia's Telecommunication Office announced it will invite interested companies to submit bids for three Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) licenses and one GSM license.The licenses offered are in two packages. One company will receive a combined package of a GSM 900/1800 MHz license...
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 UMTS licenses last year resulted in a lack of interest and the awarding of only...
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.There is no firm indication from handset vendors or operators as to when UMTS phones...
1. Jan. 29Re-auction brings in record $17B to FCCAfter 101 rounds and $16.85 billion, the Federal Communications Commission's auction of 422 personal communications services licenses ended last Friday. The auction, which began Dec. 12, broke the previous record of $9.2 billion for PCS spectrum...
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 a Qualcomm Inc. MSM5200 chipset-based handset using SIM technology from the J-Phone network, and completed...
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 a Qualcomm Inc. MSM5200 chipset-based handset using SIM technology from the J-Phone network, and completed...
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 license holders that would reduce the total cost of establishing 3G infrastructure by up...
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 coverage for GSM 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and UMTS networks.
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 Czech GSM incumbent operator, Cesky Mobil, refused to participate to the license tender, claiming that...
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 located here."Our innovative engineers in Europe and Germany are confidently working toward the successful...
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 central areas of Oslo.Telenor will be the first European operator to officially launch a...
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 of Oslo.Telenor will be the first European operator to officially launch a 3G network,...
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 made the calls with a form factor terminal in Porto, northern Portugal, using Nortel's equipment...
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 share in the country.Comverse's solution gives consumers a "one-stop" communications account with which they...
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 in early 2002.Vimpelcom launched its section comprising two base stations, a controller and a...
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 operators' 3G networks, the NTT DoCoMo network in Japan and the Sonera network in Finland,"...
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 share in the country.Comverse's solution gives consumers a "one-stop" communications account with which they...
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 take place in 2002, will be postponed until 2003 "at the earliest" confirmed Kim...
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, a 100-percent Vimpelcom subsidiary, will trial the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) technology. KB...
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 carries voice communications in circuit mode and transfers data and video in packet mode.The...
