UMTS

WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse, a unit of Comverse Technology Inc., has been authorized by the Ministry of Information and Industry to sell voice mail and short message service technologies to service providers …

FRANKFURT, Germany-German reseller debitel said it agreed with Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile German wireless carrier to market T-Mobil’s Universal Mobile Telecommunications System services. The agreement will give debitel’s customers access to …

Alcatel Brazil. With Telemar for a GSM 1800 network in the area from Piau

LONDON-The UMTS Forum, the international organization representing Universal Mobil Telecommunications System interests, said revenues from third-generation services worldwide will represent a cumulative market of up to $1 trillion between now …

NEW YORK-Paris-based Telemedia.fr has positioned itself to help telecommunications and Internet content providers capitalize on the convenience sought by French consumers, who prefer dialing to surfing for information on their …

TABY, Sweden-Allgon Systems has been appointed by an unnamed global system supplier to develop and globally supply UMTS base-station subsystems. Allgon will supply integrated filter panels, low noise amplifiers, directional …

HANNOVER, Germany-The wireless multimedia company PacketVideo Corp., and T-Mobil, which provides mobile telecommunication services in Germany, announced they will conduct trials of PacketVideo’s end-to-end wireless multimedia technology over T-Mobil’s advanced …

Amid the frenzy over a flagging economy and road bumps to the next generation of technologies, Nokia Corp. won a series of third-generation infrastructure contracts that gives the handset vendor …

EDGE is dead. Long live EDGE. Depending on where they stand on the EDGE debate, some operators want EDGE born alive. Others think it should be left as merely an …

Wireless industry insiders increasingly seem to be making the case that governments should consider “rebates” to carriers that bid too much money at spectrum auctions for third-generation wireless services. While …

LAS VEGAS-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced partnerships that it said will lead to new applications and services for a variety of devices for the GSM/GPRS network it plans to deploy …

Ukraine The Ukrainian State Communications Committee designed the procedure for issuing third-generation licenses. “The committee has already designed the licensing terms,” Committee Chairman Oleg Shevchuk said. He did not elaborate …

LAS VEGAS-Sonera’s zed portal service won a major victory last week as wireless carrier Vodafone U.K. adopted the services for use in the United Kingdom. Vodafone Group plc offers its …

Lucent Technologies Lucent Technologies introduced Flexent Wireless IP Core Network Architecture, which it said will help wireless carriers deliver a range of voice and data services to customers. According to …

Adicom Wireless Adicom Wireless announced Asymmetric Wireless Data Link, a new broadband wireless access product. AWDL, targeted at both U.S. and European markets, is designed to resolve major challenges wireless …

CANNES, France-Sema, an information technology and business services company, announced Mobile E-mail, its new messaging service offering for telecom operators. The product allows operators to offer interactive Internet e-mail services, …

The path to third-generation services for many wireless operators appears to be anything but smooth. While Asian carriers seem to be taking the high-speed approach, European carriers recently have seen …

BOSTON-PacketVideo Corp. and Nortel Networks have agreed to co-market streaming video solutions integrating PacketVideo’s end-to-end wireless multimedia system into Nortel’s UMTS application and services framework for wireless data access. Nortel …

LITCHFIELD PARK, Ariz.-Amid the scorched desert ground abutting the lush greens of golf courses, the future of the wireless Internet was the topic of discussion in the small community of …

TAIWAN Chunghwa Telecom Labs (CHTTL), the technology development group of Taiwan’s state-owned telecommunication operator, has selected Nokia to conduct its third-generation trials. Nokia will provide CHTTL with the core and …

In France, the country where they offer calorie-laden pain au chocolats and croissants for breakfast, keeping one’s weight under control does not seem to be a problem-probably because the locals …

GENEVA-Despite a subdued initial public offering (IPO) that saw the company reap a modest US$9 per share-near the bottom end of an already hastily reduced US$8.7 to US$10 range-the future …

BUCHAREST, Romania-Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) are a new and hopeful concept in the European communications market. The region’s mobile market is growing, with strong potential for new operators. The …

DUBLIN, Ireland-Having paid so much for their licenses, prospective third-generation (3G) mobile operators in Germany, as in other European countries, have been working hard to convince the financial markets and …

Handsets Sendo European mobile phone manufacturer, Sendo, launched its second product platform, the S200 dual-band GSM mobile phone. Aimed at the young-at-heart prepaid market, features of the small and light …