PortugalOni 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 the Amdocs 3G billing platform. The Accenture/Amdocs solution provides Oni Way with single billing for...
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 TDMA Operators" by The Shosteck Group."The report fails to explain, in an evenhanded manner, the...
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 priced IP services products for virtual private networks and integrated voice and data.The solution...
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 in a long string of significant sales for PacketVideo."It's a further endorsement of our...
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 its advanced UMTS core radio access network equipment."We chose Ericsson as sole supplier because they...
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 L.M. Ericsson and Nokia Corp. said June 13 at CIBC World Markets' "Communications Food...
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 share parts of their new 3G networks. The ruling will certainly ease the cost...
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 in China.Six Chinese mobile operators including Guangdong Mobile, Shanghai Mobile, Liaoning Mobile, Hei Longjiang...
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 T-Mobil's UMTS services.
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 and 2010.The data was released in a report titled "The UMTS Third Generation Market-Phase...
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 landline and wireless phones."We offer a response to the problem all these companies are...
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 General Packet Radio Service network.T-Mobil engineers will test PacketVideo's interoperability with T-Mobil's infrastructure and...
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 couplers, splitters and other equipment.The order has been valued at approximately $10 million for deliveries...
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 coveted status as a network provider.The deals, including a $1.3 billion deal to supply...
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 idea.Andrew Seybold of the Andrew Seybold Group is not amused by the optimism expressed about...
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 they make some strong points, one has to wonder how many times this issue...
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 later this year.AT&T plans to work with Accenture, Compaq Computer, MDSI and Siebel Systems...
UkraineThe 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 and said the procedure was yet to be approved by the Economics Ministry. The number...
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 own portal service to carriers in conjunction with Vivendi, called Vizzavi, and the carrier...
Lucent TechnologiesLucent 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 Lucent, the first phase of the architecture, the Lucent Softswitch Toll/Tandem Solution, lets carriers connect...
Adicom WirelessAdicom 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 service providers face, including universal coverage in a cell and high cost of subscriber unit...
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, so users can choose how to send and retrieve e-mails, whether by SMS, WAP...
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 their paths clogged by uncertainty. For U.S. carriers, 3G plans are being dictated by...
