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Quick report on CDMA subscribers in Q1 2008

CDMA Development Group (CDG) reported in June 2, 2008 that there are 451 million CDMA subscribers worldwide nowadays. This is a 17% increasing from the past year. From that total 451 million, CDMA2000(r) contribute for 438 million users while CDMA2000 1xEV-DO reaching 97 million. Here are another quick facts on this issue, especially for Asia Pacific: In [...]

How low can you go? (Indonesia’s mobile price war)

This might be quite local information, but who else will give this information besides us? 3GWeek is based in Indonesia and try to give complete information for global visitors about national telecommunication update. If you want to know more about Indonesia’s telecommunication businesses, you can contact us directly.

3GToday.com site closed

When I searched about 3G technology this morning, I found that one of my favorite sites, 3GToday.com has been closed. This is the only message on the site: Thank you for visiting 3G Today. As 3G mobile technology is now a well established global reality with more than 550 million subscribers worldwide at the end of [...]

GSM Royalty?

We know that GSM technology is a sort of open standard technology — just like Linux in computer world. And we consider its competitor, CDMA, as a propietry technology, which always deal with royalty, patent rights or something like that . That is why, so far, Qualcomm — the owner of CDMA technology — has been [...]

Qualcomm and Sampoerna Bring Broadband Wireless to Rural Areas

Harry K. Nugraha, Country Manager Qualcomm Indonesia (left), Shawn A. Covell, Senior Director, International Government Affairs, Qualcomm (center) and Michael J. Sampoerna, President Director Sampoerna Telekom * LAMPUNG, INDONESIA — Qualcomm Incorporated, a leading developer and innovator of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and other advanced wireless technologies, worked with Sampoerna Telekom (STI), Axesstel [...]

3G for Education in Indonesia

LAMPUNG, INDONESIA - Qualcomm Incorporated, a leading developer and innovator of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and other advanced wireless technologies, today announced the program launch of the Qualcomm Wireless Reach initiative in Way Kanan, Lampung. Qualcomm worked with Sampoerna Telecom, Axesstel Inc., IndoNet, the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology and the State Ministry for [...]

1xEV-DO: You are your own hot-spot

If you’ve been in an airport, coffee shop, gym or hotel recently, chances are you’ve been right in the middle of a wireless network such as Wi-Fi or 802.11 networking. But, to some extent, the limited coverage of Wi-Fi can be problem. Moving around usually requires changing hot-spots, and if they’re run by different providers, [...]

Indonesia’s BTEL to Expand Coverage

Publicly listed cellular phone provider PT Bakrie Telecom, which operates the CDMA-based esia mobile phone service, plans to expand its coverage to 15 cities in Banten and West Java next month in a bid to carve itself out a bigger share of the mobile phone market. With coverage confined to only two cities — Indonesian capital [...]

Bakrie Telecom Grows Fixed Wireless Indonesian Network with Nortel Solutions

PT Bakrie Telecom, one of Indonesia’s leading providers of fixed wireless voice and data services, is significantly boosting the capacity and transmission capabilities of its wireless network with new radio access, switching and optical solutions from Nortel. The increased capacity of the CDMA2000 1X network, serving Greater Jakarta and 15 cities in West Java and Banten [...]

DoCoMo 3G Phones Get Windows Media

The third generation (3G) providers in Japan have came to “open war” now. In facing the fast growing of the rival KDDI with CDMA2000 1xEV-DO and BREW platform, NTT DoCoMo chooses Windows Media to support their W-CDMA handset. Japan’s premier mobile communications company, NTT DoCoMo, provides wireless voice and data communications to tens of millions of [...]
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