December 6th, 2006
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Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM.O: Quote, Profile , Research) shares jumped more than 4 percent on Tuesday after China said it may grant a license for a next-generation cellphone network that would boost royalties to the wireless technology and chip supplier.
Qualcomm shares rose $1.61, or 4.3 percent, to $38.99 in early afternoon trade on Nasdaq.
Ed Snyder, an analyst [...]
November 10th, 2006
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The future of music industry will rely on mobile phone and 3G technology will be a great enabler for it.
The mobile phone is set to become the retail channel of the future for music fans according to a report published by 3.
The report investigates how young people are using new technology to revolutionise the way [...]
November 3rd, 2006
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Libya is set to get its first 3G network, with the country’s second largest cellular operator Libyana rolling out a W-CDMA and HSDPA network covering 14 cities. Libyana has contracted ZTE of China to supply its 3G infrastructure.
The new network will have an initial capacity of one million lines. State-owned Libyana had around 700,000 subscribers [...]
November 3rd, 2006
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A two-month trial of China’s third generation mobile technology will begin on either Sunday or Monday in Beijing, Shanghai and three other cities in China, Sina.com reported today. TD-SCDMA, time division-synchronous code division multiple access, was developed in China and is one of the world’s three next-generation mobile standards.
Initially, the trial TD-SCDMA network will involve [...]
October 9th, 2006
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Infineon Technologies AG announced that its GPRS/UMTS multimedia platform will power Panasonic Mobile Communications Co. Ltd’s newest Softbank 705P mobile handset. The Softbank Mobile Corp. handset will be for the Japan market. Infineon’s scalable Multimedia Platform EDGE/UMTS (MP-EU) allows mobile phone manufacturers to introduce various UMTS models based on the same core architecture, reducing [...]
September 27th, 2006
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Malaysia’s biggest mobile firm, Maxis Communications Bhd, will spend a total of RM2.2 billion over the next three years to expand its third generation (3G) network and wireless broadband Internet services. The company expects a break- even period of about three years.
Maxis aims to make broadband available to three quarters of all households by 2010. [...]
September 27th, 2006
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Vietnam will follow its ASEAN partners to launch 3G services.
The Ministry of Post and Telematics (MPT) is checking technical standards to prepare for the issuance of a regulation on using frequency bands for the 3G network.
The MPT plans to issue a business licence to the first firm that meets conditions to offer 3G services next [...]
September 18th, 2006
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Mobile softswitch ideal to combine 2G and 3G services.
Nokia has signed a nationwide supply contract with the Philippine telecommunications company Globe Telecom Inc. This network modernization deal includes an upgrade of the Globe Telecom circuit switched core network, also enabling fixed mobile convergence.
Under the agreement Nokia will renew the core network of Globe Telecom including [...]
September 10th, 2006
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Geekzone reported a very interesting statictic on cellular industry milestones. Mobile phone industry has become a spectacular industry: it took 20 years to reach 1 billion connections, three years to reach 2 billion connections and is on target to reach its third billion in a period of just over two years.
According to estimates from Wireless [...]
September 8th, 2006
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Espoo, Finland - Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO) recently announced that Yahoo! Search has become a more integral part of the Nokia Mobile Search application, a simple, convenient, and fast way to find and connect to local services, websites, images, and mobile content - all from the palm of your hand.
This cooperation allows [...]
