April 18th, 2006
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Surf’s up and prices are down. Singapore’s M1 slashed the cost of surfing the Internet and accessing e-mail wirelessly in a move to align the benefits of 3G mobility with those of fixed-line broadband.
M1’s premium 3G SunSurf 100 data plan, previously priced at about $125 per month for unlimited use, has been ratcheted down 65 [...]
April 18th, 2006
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The number of GSM mobile users in Latin America and the Caribbean is expected to grow 50% this year to 180 million compared to 2005, Erasmo Rojas, Latin America and Caribbean director for GSM industry association 3G Americas, told BNamericas.
At the end of the first quarter, Latin America recorded nearly 260 million mobile users up [...]
April 18th, 2006
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Digi International Monday unveiled the telecom industry’s first upgradeable commercial-grade 3G wireless area network (WAN) router. The Minnesota company said in a news release that the ConnectPort WAN will appeal to companies that require high-speed connections for 3G (third-generation) wireless services.
ConnectPort performs a variety of functions, including cellular routing, firewall and switching and can remotely [...]
April 17th, 2006
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Sagem Communication unveils the my900C, it’s a hot new multimedia mobile phone. With both EDGE and UMTS technology, Sagem’s latest innovation lets you make the most of broadband wherever you are, on whatever network, with the best service quality available. A top-of-the-range mobile phone, the Sagem my900C is a powerhouse of functions guaranteed to appeal [...]
April 17th, 2006
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China’s government will release 3G telecom licenses in September 2006, according to a China Mobile insider quoted by eNet. The report said that China Mobile plans to increase the pace of construction of its WCDMA network and has set up 3G trial networks in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Huizhou of Guangdong province. [3G!]
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April 17th, 2006
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Malaysia’s Celcom and Maxis have launched 3G interconnection, enabling interconnect video telephony. By opening access between the two major 3G networks, the 3G user community in Malaysia immediately increased twofold, allowing Celcom’s and Maxis’ users to make and receive video calls, and send and retrieve video messages among themselves.
Both service providers are confident that interconnection [...]
April 17th, 2006
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The number of new mobile phone subscribers of Indonesia’s second largest telecoms firm, PT Indosat Tbk, may fall by 8-12 percent in the first quarter of this year from the same period in 2005, its chief said on Monday.
However, Hasnul Suhaimi, Indosat’s president director, told reporters the company still retained its target of between 3-4 [...]
April 17th, 2006
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From revolutionising the dating game to bringing people closer together and spawning new street trends, 3G is changing the way we think, behave and communicate. Generation HERE is the first publication to investigate the impact of 3G on peoples’ everyday lives to reveal a whole new world of social and cultural interaction.
3G is changing the [...]
April 17th, 2006
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Axalto announced that it has launched the first third generation CDMA User Identification Module (UIM) commercial card in Japan with KDDI. The Axalto cards are designed to work together with KDDI’s CDMA 2000 EV-DO third generation mobile handsets. With the Axalto UIM card, KDDI offers increased transaction security, and delivers portability ease for Japanese mobile [...]
April 16th, 2006
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Research In Motion (RIM) reportedly expects to launch its Blackberry wireless e-mail deivce with Hong Kong-based China Mobile by the end of 2006.
The number of Chinese mobile subscriptions reached 404 million at the end of February, according to Chinese government statisticians. Over half of Chinese users rely on China Mobile for their wireless service, a [...]
